Entries open for RSAC Scottish Rally
Entries open for RSAC Scottish Rally Regulations have now been published and entries opened for the RSAC Scottish Rally, Scotland¹s biggest annual motor sport event. The rally is the third round of the Pirelli British Rally Championship and fourth round of the New Pig Scottish Rally Championship. For the sixth successive year the RSAC Scottish Rally, organised by the Royal Scottish Automobile Club (Motor Sport) Ltd, will be based in Dumfries, where it will be supported by Dumfries and Galloway Council. This year the RSAC Scottish Rally starts from the centre of Dumfries, with the first car flagged away from High Street at 8am on Saturday, June 8. Ahead of the crews will be a 396-mile route with 127 competitive miles in 12 special stages. The first leg of the two-day event will finish back in Dumfries around 5.45pm on Saturday, restarting at 8am on Sunday for the final leg. The champagne finish is scheduled for 4.39pm on Sunday. Commenting, the RSAC's Clerk of the Course Jonathan Lord said: "With a very competitive start to the Pirelli British Rally Championship, following a difficult year with the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001, we are gearing up for something of a vintage year in 2002. "I have no doubt that the return of the World Rally Cars will add extra excitement to the event, while the various one-make championships will ensure that there is a depth of competition throughout the two days. "With the usual excellent Dumfries and Galloway stages and a very competitive package I am sure the events will prove popular." Competitors in the Peugeot National Rally will compete across the full two-day route, starting out from Dumfries at 9.30am on Saturday. Meanwhile competitors in the Autosport Ford Ka Rally Championship, the Ferodo Ford Puma 1400 Rally Championship and the Castrol Polo Challenge will compete on the Saturday only. On Sunday there will be a second one-day event counting towards the New Pig Scottish Rally Championship. Starting ahead of the international field at 6am, the first competitors in this event should return to Dumfries around 2.30pm on Sunday afternoon. As always, the RSAC Scottish Rally incorporates the highly popular Land Rover Rally will be contested by competitors from the British Army Motoring Association and Scottish off-road clubs. This event runs behind the international event, following both the Saturday and Sunday routes. The rally invasion in Dumfries will start on Thursday, June 7 when the international rally crews congregate for two days of reconnaissance before the start of the event. Pre-event scrutineering then takes place on Friday between 3pm and 8pm at rally headquarters in the Dumfries Ice Bowl. Entries for the 2002 RSAC Scottish Rally close on Tuesday, May 21. More details can be found on the RSAC Scottish Rally website at http://www.scottishrally.co.uk. Regulations for the event can be had from the Royal Scottish Automobile Club (Motor Sport) Ltd, 11 Blythswood Square, Glasgow G2 4AG. Telephone 0141 204 4999. Fax 0141 204 4949. E-mail rsac_motorsport@compuserve.com. - Ken McEwen Director The PR Partnership (Scotland) Ltd Bon Accord House Riverside Drive Aberdeen AB11 7SL Scotland Telephone +44 (0)1224 588900 Fax +44 (0)1224 588200 e-mail ken@prpartnership.co.uk http://www.prpartnership.co.uk This e-mail is intended only for the addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this e-mail. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by replying to this e-mail. Any e-mail attachment may contain software viruses which could damage your own computer system. Whilst reasonable precaution has been taken to minimise this risk, we cannot accept liability for any damage which you sustain as a result of software viruses. You should therefore carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment.