More desperately
sad news from Scottish rallying. Stephen McClory passed away suddenly and quite
unexpectedly two weeks ago. He was only 22 years of age.
Stephen was
fairly new to rallying having started in 2012 with the 14-17 year old Junior 1000
Championship driving a Nissan Micra. In 2014 he switched to a Fiesta ST which
he drove in only a few events each year as he continued with his engineering
studies at university.
He combined
his enthusiasm for rallying with a love of ski-ing. Indeed, just after
Christmas he had gone on a ski-ing holiday with his Mum, Janice, and was
looking ahead to the new rallying season with his Dad, John.
It's just so
tragic that such a promising young life was cut short before the promise could
be fulfilled. Stephen was a credit to Janice and John, an intelligent and
gifted young man, quiet to the point of shyness amongst strangers, although
genuinely warm and generous amongst friends.
The understandably
emotional funeral took place yesterday in Coatbridge and was attended by parents
and grandparents, close and extended family members, friends, staff from John's
Brick & Steel Construction Company and a few rally pals.
We simply
can't comprehend what the family is going through, but our thoughts and
condolences should be with the family during these dark days.
