Rally - Snowmageddon!

Two weeks ago the Snowlessman Rally opened the Scottish Forest Rally Championship and in a week’s time the Border Access Knockhill Stages Rally (1st March) will flag off the start of the Scottish Tarmack Championship season, but rally crews (and Border Ecosse CC organisers and Knockhill staff) will be hoping for rather better weather than greeted crews 15 years ago.

It was all looking hunky dory in the run up to the event but overnight it snowed, and then it snowed some more, and just when folk thought it had stopped, it snowed even more, with folk waking up on the Sunday morning to eight inches of snow right across the circuit and car sized drifts in awkward places.

That the event ran at all was tribute to the stoicism and hard work of volunteers and staff but even so as the first cars nosed out of the Paddock, Eskimos, hairy dugs and sledges would have been of more use than rally navigators. However, at the end of the first exploratory lap there were sufficient tyre trails to follow and guide the crews around and competition got underway.

The event was won by John and Jim Rintoul and in an Evo9 from the similar car of Ian Campbell and Lyndsey Paton but in third place was the wee Peugeot 206 of Des Campbell and Alex Orr! According to Dangerous Des his secret lay in his tyres – Polish manufactured Profil remoulds! Equally impressive was Sean Robson’s fifth place as he and Stuart Cant slipped and slithered their way around in their Peugeot 205.

It might not have been the fastest and most competitive rally ever, but by goad it wis pretty! Those ice dancers at the Olympics had nothing on the pirouettes seen that day way back in the year 2011.

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