SCCC Round 1 results

Round 1: Forrest Estate - Dumfries & Galloway

Drivers Name	Comp Number	Lap 1	Lap 2	Lap 3	Lap 4	Lap 5	Lap 6	Lap 7	Total Time
Colin Gould	34	00:11:52	00:12:51	00:11:15	00:11:35	00:11:18	00:11:13	00:11:02	01:21:06
Brian Carlin	10	00:12:11	00:11:58	00:11:32	00:11:16	00:12:10	00:12:09	00:12:14	01:23:30
David Bartlett	22	00:12:43	00:12:41	00:11:39	00:11:47	00:12:02	00:12:09	00:12:33	01:25:34
Tony Rae	11	00:13:08	00:12:30	00:12:00	00:12:27	00:12:12	00:12:06	00:12:10	01:26:33
Malcolm Millar	21	00:14:44	00:11:52	00:11:56	00:11:57	00:12:17	00:12:03	00:11:59	01:26:48
Robin Vance	35	00:12:47	00:12:35	00:13:21	00:12:29	00:12:42	00:13:01	00:12:31	01:29:26
Stu Howe	4	00:13:56	00:13:29	00:12:53	00:12:55	00:12:32	00:12:47	00:12:30	01:31:02
Peter Baird	19	00:13:32	00:13:36	00:12:54	00:12:55	00:13:01	00:12:56	00:12:50	01:31:44
Euron Williams	25	00:13:11	00:13:11	00:12:40	00:12:46	00:13:40	00:13:38	00:22:26	01:41:32
Billy Phillips	2	00:30:00	00:12:54	00:13:18	00:13:49	00:14:14	00:13:45	00:14:24	01:52:24
Lee Bartlett	5	00:30:00	00:12:39	00:11:49	00:11:25	00:11:37	00:11:27	00:30:00	01:58:57
Dan Lofthouse	13	00:30:00	00:10:30	00:10:33	00:10:11	00:09:59	Engine troubles		DNF
Brian Hilditch	7	00:30:00	00:13:50	00:30:00	Broken Gearbox				DNF
David Mitchell	6	00:16:28	00:30:00	Parked in a ditch					DNF
Johnny Drysdale	3	00:22:40	Engine troubles						DNF
David Drysdale	18	00:30:00	Parked in a ditch						DNF
Robert Law	16	00:30:00	Broken Gearbox						DNF
Colin Stevenson	37	Gearbox problems							DNF
Double Driven
John Cockburn & Greg McLeod	-	00:12:43	00:11:18	00:11:34	00:10:23	00:11:17	00:10:25	00:12:56	01:20:36
Paul Myers & Matt Morgan	-	00:35:12	00:12:46	00:30:00	Parked in the trees				DNF

 

Scurrelous rumours and mis-factual information

Fact 1: The Perthshire Hill Rally is still on: I am talking to land owners and planning options and juggling costs. I do not want to be the man who killed the event... it will run!

Fact 2: I (on behalf of the Scottish Hill Rally) have been talking to Selwyn about the BCCC and the Hill Rallies. There will be a Hill Rally, and I am working on backup plans
(edit: Borders Hill Rally)

Fact 3: SHRC and BCCC can work together. This is what the position is, as far as I am aware:
BCCC are going to provide a gap in the BCCC calendar so that drivers who wish to enter the Perthshire have a free rein, and do not feel constrained to committing to enter due to a BCCC round before-hand (basically, nothing from the BCCC round at the beginning of June until the end of July.)

To confirm our (my) position vis-a-vis the Borders:

I would prefer a straight Scottish Borders Hill Rally, as we normally run: multiple stages, at most driven twice without alteration; distinct "stage miles", "road miles" (though there is no public highway road miles); service.... using timecards, roadbooks, and strict time-keeping... and no distinction between Hill Rally drivers and BCCC drivers.

This would be the simplest interpretation of the concept "The July round at Castle O'er has been dropped from the BCCC calendar to be replaced by the Borders Hill Rally"

What I believe we have on offer is a compromise from there:

The event will be a Hill Rally, run to Hill Rally timing. BCCC will buy into the event.
The BCCC competitors would drive fewer stages... but still something in the order of 60 miles.
The Hill Rally entrants (either non BCCC people paying the standard fee, or BCCC people who "upgrade" at their own cost) will drive more stages... in the order of 90 miles

SHRC will set up the event such that a BCCC driver can return to service after every lap (noting that the "super-rally" rules would give them a maximum for the stage missed, but keep them in the event)

This is a public note - for the record...

oh.... POODLES!

The paperwork I sent to the manager of a quarry, so he could make supportive noises to his bosses, so we could use it for motorsports.... has not arrived - a month after I posted it too.

Buggerit.

I'll need to reassemble to documentation, and the CD, and post it again... actually, I may bloody DRIVE there and hand it in personally!

But this pretty much kills off the chance of getting the ground for April :(

Perthshire Hill Rally and landowners, take 2

Well, another 100 miles on the clock (I wonder, should I get paid for this?)... I've a friend of a friend who's going to talk to a few of his friends (who are land-owners) and see about the Hill Rally coming onto their land... and therefor giving me an introduction.

Also spoken to another land owner, and clarified what bit of their hillside we can use, and which bit (most of it) we can't.... but I'm getting some firm possibilities coming together now.

I need to really get some definites sorted pronto, so I can define a price for the entry fee.

(PS: Can I go back to Comps please? they're so much easier :chuckle: )

Perthshire Hill Rally and landowners

One of the hardest parts about organising the Perthshire Hill Rally is organising the route.

Like any true Rally, the event is Multi Stage.... and as the Hill Rally is on hillsides.... it's multi-farm.
This means that I need to rent land of multiple owners, and ensure that all of them are happy with what we are doing.

On Saturday I went to see most of them.... and the news was not the most wonderful:

• Andrew needs a year out: there are sections of his hill that need time to recover
• Donald has windfarms going up, so the third of his farm that he puts livestock on whist we race on the other two-thirds is part of the wind farm, so he's having to put stock onto the bit we normally use... and the field we use for servicing is out of commission too... so a no-go there at all.
• James was happy to see us, and even has a bit more hillside we can use... so that's a big score there!
• John wants to put the relationship he has with the Hill Rally onto a more formal footing, now that his friend has stopped running the event. One of the tasks we need to do is go over the route, and look at repairing stuff.
• Magnus has moved house... I discovered this when I turned up at his old house... Oops.

I've had an offer from someone to give me an introduction to some places he knows, who may well be ammenable... but that's for later :)

The Forestry people seem happy for us to continue, and have even given a tacit nod to some plans for alternate routes I want to forge through the landscape :)

So it's all go on that front too :grin:

BCCC & SHRC

I've had a good, and productive, series of chats with Selwyn about the BCCC taking results from the Borders Hill Rally as one of the rounds of the BCCC.

We've not reached any definite firm decision yet, however one of the conditions I wanted was to have clear space around the Perthshire Hill Rally (normally there is a BCCC round just before the Hill Rally, and closing date for our entries is before the BCCC event.... you see the problem) - well, there will be a clear space of several weeks either side of the Perthshire, do drivers can enter, and have plenty of time to do repairs before the next round of the BCCC in September... YIPEE!!

Watch this space for developments on the Borders: we can do something, but it will have to be run as a Hill Rally, not a Comp Safari.

SCCC Round 1

Sunday 15th March, 2009

Round one of the SCCC is at the invitation of one of our competitors: we have been offered access to this well known rally site.

The plan is to restrict ourselves to about 5 miles... of tracks, fire-breaks, water-splashes, and foundation roads.

This promises to be a very exciting opening round of the championship.

Camping is available: proper hard standing to boot!

Regs are available from the me, or downloadable from http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df8ssf5n_16q4m8p&hl=en_GB and the times and locations are available from http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df8ssf5n_45c6mxx9gp&hl=en_GB