Glenrothes Motor Sport Club is a long-established organisation that brings together members who are interested in various motor sports. It has just over 100 members, most of whom are active either as competitors, organisers or safety marshals.
We have four track nights booked at Knockhill this year,
starting with the first Monday in May, ideal for a bit of tarmac testing before the Jim Clark rally a couple of weeks later, or just for fun.
On track from 6 till 8pm, arrive 5:00 to 5:30 for signing on and safety briefings.
Prices £60 for driver and car, £30 for additional driver sharing same car, passengers free but have to sign on for insurance reasons.
(We may offer a discount for bookings paid in advance, watch this space for an update on that).
The four dates for your diary are:
5th May 2008
27th June 2008
29th July 2008
4th September 2008
There will be an MSA/Volunteers In Motorsport marshal training day on Sunday 9th March at Bell College Hamilton.
This will include practical fire training (which is pretty rare).
Ideal if you want to get on the marshals register or update your certification.
The training day also applies to the new in 2008 MSA Cadet Marshals scheme, for the under 16s.
http://www.msauk.org/site/cms/contentViewArticle.asp?article=2385
Sign up online for training at
http://volunteersinmotorsport.co.uk/tinc?key=nX0K3jBh&formname=Hamilton
Or go to volunteersinmotorsport.co.uk and click on training.
Marshals Wanted!
As you know from your newsletters, the first round of the Scottish tarmac season will be run by DCC at Crail on 22nd March, and, as always, marshals are required, experienced or novice.
Perfect follow-up to your marshal training day, maybe?
If you can help, contact STRC Chief Marshal Keith Cowan
Keith dot Cowan68 at tesco.net
01383 725402
07879 895527
Regs are on the Hytorc Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship site at www.strc.co.uk
First of all, we want to thank everybody who contributed to another successful Kingdom Stages on Saturday 3rd November 2007, including the marshals, radio crews, changeover crews, and especially those marshals and competitors and results officers and father figures and all the rest who turned out in the week before the event to dig holes, lay concrete, haul tyres and shove bales.
What an epic Kingdom this was, and what an entry list, headed by the last three winners.
Competition was fierce all day, Tom Morris was fastest on the first stage with Bob Grant and John Rintoul both 3 seconds behind, Rintoul took those 3 seconds back from Morris on Stage 2, Martin Elsdon was fastest on SS3 and only one second behind Rintoul on SS4.
Tom Morris recovered 7 seconds from Rintoul on stage 6 but it was not enough, and the Rintoul brothers won their third Kingdom, with Tom Morris and Colin Harkness four seconds behind, Bob Grant and Pete Carstairs another 3 seconds down in third, Martin Elsdon and Ian Rettie fourth, and John Marshall and Davie Hatrick in fifth place. The top five were covered by only 31 seconds.
At the other end of the field in car 100, and on his first ever rally, Lachlan Cowan, guided by another youngster by the name of Tom Hynd, took third in class one without ripping any corners off his Dad''s 106.
The Hytorc Scottish Tarmack Championship was to be settled betweenTracey Louise Muir and Ricky Wheeler. Tracey broke a driveshaft and went OTL on the first stage, which left Ricky Wheeler needing to win class 4 to take the championship. Bruce Edwards was one second ahead after 5 stages, Ricky spun on the last stage, Bruce won the class, and Tracey won the championship and the Kingdom Trophy Rally too.
As it worked out, we started 100 cars, including two reserve crews who travelled from the frozen north on spec, and got a run at the last minute (Chelle Falconer and Dad, and Dave Ross and Kyle Mackintosh).
The weather was kind, and the rally finished in daylight a couple of minutes late at 16:01.
Then three winners of the marshals prize draw got a run through the stage with John Rintoul, Bob Grant and Bruce Edwards. I didn''t see it, but I hear that when Lauren Ritchie got out of John''s car, her eyes were wide, her grin was wider, but her legs didn''t seem to work right.
Thanks also to all the other drivers up and down the field who volunteered to give marshals a run, including Ricky Wheeler, Tom Morris, Jamie Smith, Stuart Baillie, Ian Forgan, Gordon Milne, and more. Sadly we could only use three of you; your turn next year, maybe.
Hope to see you all next year at Rintoul’s Raceway, (the airfield formerly known as Crail) for
The Best Rally in the Kingdom
