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The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel surface events.[1][2]
The 2016 season begins in the snow-covered forest tracks around Inverness on 20 February, with the season finale taking place around Castle Douglas on 10 September. Driver Jock Armstrong and regular co-driver Paula Swinscoe will start the season as defending champions having won the 2015 Championship.[3]
Aberdeen based haulage company ARR Craib will sponsor the series for the fourth year in a row.[4]
Alongside the main championship, 2016 will see a number of initiatives run over the course of the year including the following:
For season 2016 there is to be seven events held predominantly on gravel surfaces.[5]
Round | Dates | Event | Rally HQ | Surface | Website |
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1 | 20 Feb | The Snowman Rally | Inverness | Gravel / Snow | (website) |
2 | 19 Mar | Border Counties Rally | Jedburgh | Gravel | (website) |
3 | 23 Apr | Speyside Stages Rally | Elgin | Gravel | (website) |
- | 5 Jun | Jim Clark Reivers Rally | Kelso | Gravel | (website) |
4 | 25 Jun | RSAC Scottish Rally | Dumfries | Gravel | (website) |
5 | 13 Aug | Grampian Stages Rally | Aberdeen | Gravel | (website) |
6 | 10 Sep | Galloway Hills Rally | Castle Douglas | Gravel | (website) |
On 24 May, the Jim Clark Reivers Forest Rally Rally management team announced via a press release that the 2016 event – usually round 4 of the championship and held in June, would not take place. Insufficient entries was cited as the reason.[6]
Round | Rally name | Podium finishers[7] | |||
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Placing | Driver / Co-Driver | Car | Time / Diff leader | ||
1 | Snowman Rally (20 February) |
1 | Donnie Macdonald / Andrew Falconer | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 | 50:15 |
2 | Dale Robertson / Stuart Louden | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 | +0:07 | ||
3 | Quintin Milne / Sean Donnelly [N 1] | Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 | +0:30 | ||
2 | Border Counties Rally (19 March) |
1 | Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe | Subaru Impreza | 41:17 |
2 | Garry Pearson / Robbie Mitchell | Ford Fiesta R5 | +0:00 [N 2] | ||
3 | Shaun Sinclair / Kirsty Riddick | Ford Focus WRC | +0:07 | ||
3 | Speyside Stages (23 April) |
1 | Garry Pearson / Robbie Mitchell | Ford Fiesta R5 | 42:32 |
2 | Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe | Subaru Impreza | +0:08 | ||
3 | Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy | Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX | +0:41 | ||
– | Jim Clark Reivers Rally (5 June) |
1 | Rally cancelled [8] | ||
2 | |||||
3 | |||||
4 | RSAC Scottish Rally (25 June) |
1 | Garry Pearson / Robbie Mitchell | Ford Fiesta R5 | 54:07.4 |
2 | Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe | Subaru Impreza | +0:12.9 | ||
3 | Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy | Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX | +0:13.8 | ||
5 | Grampian Stages Rally (13 August) |
1 | Dave Weston Jnr / Aled Davies [N 1] | Subaru Impreza WRC | 42:47 |
2 | John MacCrone / Rhianon Gelsomino | Ford Fiesta R5 | +0:06 | ||
3 | Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton [N 1] | Peugeot 208 R5 | +0:21 | ||
6 | Galloway Hills Rally (10 September) |
1 | Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe | Subaru Impreza | 38:39 |
2 | Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy | Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX | +0:57 | ||
3 | Mark McCulloch / Michael Hendry | Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX | +1:28 | ||
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Points are awarded to the highest placed registered drivers on each event as follows: 30, 28, 27, 26, and so on down to 1 point. At the end of the season, competitors nominate their best 5 scores out of the 6 events as their final overall Championship score.
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