The Bathgate Night Comp (SCCC, round 5)

The regs for round five of the Scottish Cross Country Championship are available.

Standing Supplementary Regulations are at: http://docs.google.com/View?docID=df8ssf5n_16q4m8p
Additional Supplementary regulations are at: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df8ssf5n_22hbk97wcz

This is the famous Night Comp: Racing at night, over the Bathgate Hills ("UFOs Over Bathgate: Residents of the sleepy rural town of Bathgate, Scotland, were amazed to see bright lights shining in the clouds to the north of the town. The lights would appear and disappear, moving with great speed across the sky, and seeming to dance in pairs..")

Roadbook checking

Just spent two days checking the roadbook for the Perthshire Hillrally.

400 miles, two breakfasts, four lunches, several cups of coffee, and three pizza... and I now need to compose some covering notes to feed my corrections back into the system.

Drumclog results

Name	Door No.	Total Lap Time	Position
Lee Bartlett	4	01:33:49	1
Paul Aynsley	380	01:40:56	2
Norrie Deas	2	01:42:39	3
Brian Hilditch	26	01:44:22	4
Tony Rae	202	01:45:37	5
Mark Caisley	36	01:46:05	6
Ian Spowart	39	01:54:56	7
Jo Bartlett	30	01:57:03	8
Annette Chatham	38	02:03:20	9
David Stewart	35	02:05:13	10
Martyn Smith	32	02:16:40	11
Johnnie Drysdale	2000	02:22:51 (retired, lap 14)	12
Billy Philips	6	02:25:37	13
Robert Agnew	18	02:43:54 (retired, lap 14)	14
David Drysdale	2001	03:17:16 (retired, lap 12)	15
Robert Law	5	03:19:48 (retired, lap 11)	16

SCCC Round 4, Coulport

The Additional Supplementary Regulations for Round 4 of the SCCC are available via Google Docs.

(The Standing Supplementary Regulations are also available)

Perthshire Hill Rally reccies

Been to look at various woods around Kiellour, and down into Glendevon. Some work needed, but it should be interesting driving :)

Lombard Rally, 2008

I am co-ordination the running of a small section of the Lombard 2008 rally (http://www.lombardrally.com/).

Specifically I am running two sections: On Thursday the 6th of November, I'm organising all marshaling from a lunch-stop at Hexham Auction Mart, with Selectives through Keilder, Kershop, Newcastleton, and Castle O're and handing over to Moffet motorsports club for an evening break at Moffet town centre.

From there, the competitors head to an overnight halt in Glasgow. Friday, they tour around Argyle & Bute and the Trossachs Park before returning to Glasgow for Friday night. On Saturday, the Lombard tours Dumfries & Galloway, before returning to my sphere, where the tour goes through Twiglees, Castle O're and Newcastleton again, before an overnight halt in Carlisle.

I'm trying to get the local clubs to run Selectives, giving them as much responsibility as they want for each Selective... and that can be quite a lot of people! Each Selective needs:

• A Selective Commander (the person in charge of that challenge)
• 3+ crew at the start and end of each stage (preferably with an 81 radio at each end)
• (ideally) a marshal watching each in-stage marker point
• an 81 radio every 2 miles of special stage (more is good).

The route

Thursday:
Keilder: 14 miles, 30-40 markers
Newcastleton: 6 miles, 18-30 markers
Castle O'Re: 8 miles, 20-30 markers

Satruday:
Twiglees: 8 miles, 20-30 markers
Castle O'Re: 8 miles, 20-30 markers
Newcastleton: 6 miles, 18-30 markers

So far I have a Selective Commander for Castle O're, and a couple of (4x4) recovery vehicles (again, for Castle O'Re)

Results from SCCC Round 2

Name	Door No	SCC Class	Total Lap Time	Position
Mark Casiley	36	H	00:40:59	1
Ian Spowart	39	E	00:41:44	2
Tony Rae	202	G	00:41:52	3
Martyn Smith	32	G	00:42:01	4
Sandy Murray	136	H	00:44:38	5
Malcolm Millar	31	D	00:45:38	6
Brian Hilditch	26	E	00:47:02	7
Billy Phillips	6	E	00:47:14	8
Annette Chatham	38	E	00:48:40	9
Johnnie Drysdale	2000	G	00:52:23	10
David Drysdale	2001	F	00:58:08	11
Robert Law	5	G	01:04:35	12
Dave Stewart	35	H	Retired, Lap 7	13