2015 Scottish Rally Championship season

2015 Scottish Rally Championship season
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The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises eight gravel rallies.[1] Points are awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of points over the season is declared Champion of the series.

The 2015 season begins in the snow covered forest tracks around Inverness on 21 February with the season finale taking place around Perth on 3–4 October.

On 24 April Merrick Stages Rally management team announced via a press release that the 2015 event, usually round 7 of the championship and held in September would not take place. The team intend to concentrate on a new style event for 2016.[2] A stand-in eighth event is expected to be announced by the SRC in due course.

The Colin McRae Forest Stages will trial a new format this year with the event taking place over two days. Competitors contesting the event will tackle 2 or 3 special stages on the Saturday before an overnight halt and then resume the rally on Sunday morning with another 2 or 3 stages.[3]

2015 calendar

For season 2015 there will be eight events held on a variety of surfaces.

Round Dates Event Rally HQ Surface Website
1 21 Feb Arnold Clark Thistle Snowman Rally Inverness Gravel / Snow (website)
2 21 Mar Border Counties Rally Jedburgh Gravel (website)
3 2 May Granite City Rally Aberdeen Gravel (website)
4 31 May Jim Clark Reivers Rally Kelso Gravel (website)
5 27 Jun RSAC Scottish Rally Dumfries Gravel (website)
6 1 Aug Speyside Stages Elgin Gravel (website)
7 3/4 Oct Colin McRae Forest Stages Perth Gravel (website)
8 T.B.A.

2015 events podium

Round Rally name Podium finishers[4]
Placing Driver / Co-Driver Car Time /
Diff leader
1 Snowman Rally
(Feb 21)		 1 Jock Armstrong / Paula Swinscoe Subaru Impreza 43:59
2 Bruce McCombie / Michael Coutts Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution +0:16
3 Mike Faulkner / Peter Foy Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9 +0:29
2 Border Counties Rally
(Mar 21)		 1 David Bogie / Kevin Rae Ford Fiesta R5+ 32:45
2 Stephen Petch / Jack Morton[N 1] Ford Fiesta R5+ +0:40
3 Peter Taylor / Andrew Roughead[N 1] Ford Focus +0:44
3 Granite City Rally
(May 2)		 1
2
3
4 Jim Clark Reivers Rally
(May 31)		 1
2
3
5 RSAC Scottish Rally
(Jun 27)		 1
2
3
6 Speyside Stages
(Aug 1)		 1
2
3
7 Colin McRae Forest Stages
(Oct 3/4)		 1
2
3
8 T.B.A. 1
2
3
Notes
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Crew was not registered to score points towards the Scottish Rally Championship.

Drivers' championship standings (Top 5)

Pos Driver Car TSR
 BCR
 GCR
 JCR
 SCO
 GSS
 CMFS
 TBA
  Points[5]
1 Bruce McCombie Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 2 4 54
2 Donnie Macdonald Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 4 3 53
3 Andrew Gallacher Ford Fiesta 8 4 50
4 Barry Groundwater Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 5 6 49
5 Shaun Sinclair Mitsubishi Lancer EVO 8 7 7 48
Pos Driver Car TSR
 BCR
 GCR
 JCR
 SCO
 GSS
 CMFS
 TBA
  Points 
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Non-podium finish
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
* Nominated dropped points

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 Championship, competitors nominate their best 6 scores out of the 8 events as their final overall Championship score.

References

  1. ↑ "ARR Craib MSA Scottish Rally Championship". SRC. Scottish Rally Championship. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Merrick Stages Rally management committee to promote a new rally in Central Scotland". Merrick Stages. Merrick Stages. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "The Bears Are Plotting". SRC. Scottish Rally Championship. Retrieved 22 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Rally Results from Scotland & Beyond....". FlyingFinish.co.uk. Flying Finish. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Current Standings". SRC. Scottish Rally Championship. Retrieved 21 February 2015.

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