Admittedly it took a wee while today grappling with computer terminology and mystifying acronyms but I got there. Mind you, matters were not helped when the computer and software company said it had further developed the software, added more functionality and improved the ‘intuitive’ (their word!) user experience. My wee heart sank at those supposedly encouraging and inspiring remarks.
As is usual these days there was no helpline or human to turn to, just lists of FAQs but I managed to add the new book to the on-line sales platform. What sounds like a simple operation is far from it. It entails the adoption of a mental dexterity which can only be fuelled by the invention of new sweary words, the more exotic and celtic in flavour, the better! The bigger surprise is that it works!
So that’s it, a permanent record of each and every round of the Scottish Rally Championship from the start of the new Millennium to the end of year 2009 with the usual photographic chapters at the back of the book. The book of course concentrates primarily on Scottish rallying matters but that tragic event in 2007 had to be addressed. Any book on Scottish rallying simply could not ignore it. I just hope folk agree with what has been done.
There are a few personality pages but the choice of front cover was always going to be difficult. Two drivers each won the Scottish National title in that decade and perhaps they should both have featured on the front cover. However, I didn’t want that. Instead I chose the crew who won the first round of the first Championship and became the first Scottish Champions of a new millennium.
However, a word of caution when ordering the new book. Just make sure you pick the right one! Maybe I made a mistake in having all the books bound in a blue cover, perhaps they should have been different colours for each decade so they would be easier to select. But I didn’t, they are ‘5 Star’ blue and yellow with a different front cover photo. I like it, I just hope you do.
The book costs £45 plus £5 P&P and is available to order now at:
https://fife-motor-sports-agency.square.site/
