The Scottish Rally Championship is a

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series run throughout

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over the course of a year, that comprises both gravel and closed surface rallies.http://www.scottishrallychampionship.co.uk/ SRC Homepage Points are awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of points over the season is declared Champion. The championship has always been a breeding ground for many

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drivers, including Colin &

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and Barry Clark. Notable previous champions have included

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founder

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, who won the championship in 1976 in a Colt Lancer, and former World Rally Champion, Colin McRae who performed a giant killing act when he took the series crown in 1988 in his humble

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Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally 2008

The 2008 season finale, the ''Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally'' saw an enhanced entry list of 'rally legends' in honour of Colin who died in 2007. The impressive entry list included ex-World Championship drivers

Hannu Mikkola Hannu Olavi Mikkola (24 May 1942 − 25 February 2021) was a Finnish champion world rally driver. He was a seven-time winner of the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland and won the RAC Rally in Great Britain four times. Career Mikkola's rally career ...

Ari Vatanen Ari Pieti Uolevi Vatanen (; born 27 April 1952) is a Finnish rally driver turned politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2009. Vatanen won the World Rally Championship drivers' title in 1981 and the Paris Dakar Rally ...

(partnered by his 1981 WRC winning co-driver David Richards),

Björn Waldegård Björn Waldegård (12 November 1943 – 29 August 2014) was a Swedish rally driver, and the winner of the inaugural World Rally Championship for drivers in 1979. His Swedish nickname was "Walle". Career Waldegård, who came from Rimbo, had a car ...

, Malcolm Wilson,

Russell Brookes Russell Brookes (16 August 1945 – 30 October 2019) was a British rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985. In 1978, he won the Rally New Zealand, a round of the F ...

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and

Louise Aitken-Walker Louise Aitken-Walker MBE (born January 1960 in Duns, Berwickshire) is a British rally and saloon car racing driver. Aitken-Walker entered competition in 1979 and finished 19th in her first Rally GB two years later. She contested the 1989 Britis ...

, many competing in their original cars. A handful of current WRC drivers also took part including

Matthew Wilson Matthew Wilson (born 29 January 1987) is a British rally driver from Cockermouth in Cumbria. He is the son of M-Sport boss and former World Rally Championship driver Malcolm Wilson. Wilson competed in the WRC for the Stobart M-Sport Ford team. ...

and

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. The event was deemed a great success, attracting record spectator numbers to the Perthshire forests. Outright winner was

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driver Matthew Wilson in a Ford Focus WRC, with Colin's brother Alister winning the "legends" portion of the rally.

Champions

References

External links

Scottish Rally Championship Homepage

RSAC Scottish Rally Homepage

'Jaggy Bunnet' extensive SRC info site

Flying Finish, SRC live results page
Rally racing series Motorsport in Scotland Auto racing series in the United Kingdom Sports competitions in Scotland {{rally-stub

Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally 2008

Champions

See also

References

External links