The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel surface events.
The 2019 series began on the snow-covered forest tracks around Inverness on 9 February, with the season finale taking place around Dalbeattie on 14 September.
Following the Grampian Stages Rally in August, Euan Thorburn and regular co-driver Paul Beaton were declared champions in their Ford Focus WRC. They had won four of the five events thus far and were uncatchable in the points table.
2019 calendar For season 2019 there are to be seven events held predominantly on gravel surfaces.
Snowman Rally On 7 February it was announced via the organisers Facebook account that the 2019 event would be cancelled. The reason given was attributed to the extremely unsafe conditions of the course, with all stages having a thick covering of Ice.
Round Dates Event Rally HQ Surface Website - Cancelled Snowman Rally Inverness Gravel / Snow (website) 1 16 Mar Border Counties Rally Jedburgh Gravel (website) 2 20 Apr Speyside Stages Rally Elgin Gravel (website) 3 18 May RSAC Scottish Rally Lockerbie Gravel (website) 4 22 Jun Argyll Rally Dunoon Gravel (website) 5 10 Aug Grampian Stages Rally Banchory Gravel (website) 6 14 Sep Galloway Hills Rally Dalbeattie Gravel (website)
2019 events podium
Round Rally name Podium finishers Placing Driver / Co-Driver Car Time /Diff leader -Snowman Rally(Cancelled)1 2 3 1Border Counties Rally (16 March)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 40:512 Garry Pearson / Dale Bowen Ford Fiesta R5 +0:333 Stephen Petch / Michael Wilkinson Ford Fiesta +1:26 2Speyside Stages (20 April)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 39:462 Jock Armstrong / Cameron Fair Subaru Impreza +0:413 Freddie Milne / Patrick Walsh Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII +1:29 3 RSAC Scottish Rally(18 May)1 David Bogie / John Rowan Škoda Fabia R5 40:142 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC +00:063 Garry Pearson / Dale Bowen Ford Fiesta R5 +00:20 4 Argyll Rally (22 June)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 40:362 Garry Pearson / Dale Bowen Ford Fiesta R5 +01:023 Bruce McCombie / Michael Coutts Ford Focus WRC +01:44 5 Grampian Stages Rally (10 August)1 Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton Ford Focus WRC 42:302 Jock Armstrong / Cameron Fair Subaru Impreza +0:273 John Wink / Neil Shanks Hyundai i20 R5 +1:55 6 Galloway Hills Rally(14 September)1 David Bogie / John Rowan Mini WRC 41:15.22 Jock Armstrong / Cameron Fair Subaru Impreza +1:08.33 Michael Binnie / Claire Mole Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX +1:52.6
Drivers Points Classification Pos Driver Car SNO BCR SSR SCO ARG GSR GHR Points 1 Euan Thorburn Ford Focus WRC- 1 1 2 1 1 * 148 2 Jock Armstrong Subaru Impreza- 5 2 4* 2 2 135 3 Michael Binnie Mitsubishi Evo IX- 4 4 * 4 4 3 131 4 Keith Morris Mitsubishi Evo IX- 13 10 10 7 7 109 4= Alan Dickson Mitsubishi Evo IX- * 9 10 7 9 7 109 Pos Driver Car SNO BCR SSR SCO ARG GSR GHR Pts
Points are awarded to the highest placed registered driver on each event as follows: 30, 28, 27, 26, and so on down to 1 point. At the end of the Championship, competitors will count their best 5 scores out of the 6 events as his/her final overall Championship score.
References
External links
RSAC Scottish Rally Homepage