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Hello and welcome to the highlights of the second half of the 2012 | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
Scottish Rally Championships. Title-holder David Bogie and Barrie | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
Brown are joint leaders after four was. But was all to play for as the | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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title race went into overdrive. It started in Dumfries. The Scottish | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Rally is David Bogie's home event so you was looking for a strong | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
performance to get his season back on track after not finishing the | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
last contest. I am really looking forward to it today, the Home Rally, | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
I am just raring to go. It was a welcome return for Navigator, | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Kirsty Riddoch, who was back in action with the effervescent Jock | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Armstrong from Castle Douglas. have been cutting through the gears | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
a bit quicker so that gives you an overall per mile speed that major | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
perhaps a third of a mile quicker. With me getting older, I need the | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
car to be quicker, so it is a good combination! Last season Euan | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Thorburn and Mike falter were neck and neck for second place Machen | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
the Championship, with Euan Thorburn eventually clinching it. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
It is going to be really tough out there. It is going to be a great | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
battle all day. I am looking forward to it. Whatever the weather | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
does, it makes conditions a little bit treacherous. Perhaps | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
surprisingly, championship leader Barry Groundwater was not confident | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
of cementing his position. There is after a bitter competition. I might | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
be going backwards. The member, drivers get dirty poise for the | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
victory, 28 per second, 27 for 80, 26 for fourth place, and so on, | :02:39. | :02:49. | |
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down to 1.4 finishing 29th. -- one., For -- one point. David Bogie | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
seemed to use the disappointment of failing to finish the last event to | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
spur him on in stage one. He and his co-driver completed the 8.5 | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
miles 18 seconds quicker than closest challenger, Jock Armstrong. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
In the first stage of any Rally, you want to put in a good enough | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
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About six corners in I slid a wide, then got onto really slippy stuff, | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
then it knocks you back a bit and you have got to build your | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
confidence again. Time-wise, we don't know what day was, but might | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
balk but did not seem to come out, so I don't know. A whilst Armstrong | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
and David Bogie were satisfied with their first stage efforts, the same | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
could not be said of Euan Thorburn. I was going well and then a mile | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
and a half towards the end I just got no power at all, tried | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
everything. It is pretty frustrating. You could just keep | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
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going but we just lost that much Rory Young and Allan Cathers in an | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
older Mitsubishi Lancer a Evo 5 were going well, in third place | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
overall. But they only led Mike Walker and Peter Foy by the most | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
slender margin, with less than a second separating them after a | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
stage one. Barry Groundwater with Neil Shanks made up the top five, a | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
brother three seconds behind Faulkner. The rain swept in at the | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
start of stage two, but it did not affect David Bogie, consolidating | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
first place. Armstrong and Riddick were again the closest challengers, | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
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completing a windy hill, two seconds slower than the challengers. | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Faulkner and Foy eased into the top three. That was despite losing time | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
to a suspension problem. The risk was that there was that joint there, | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
feeling, so with about 10 minutes to go they found that and they a | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
cracking on, changing that. Barry Groundwater moved up one place to | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
ride into the top four and keep his title challenge on course. And | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
Bonnie McDonald from Inverness made up the top five after a storming | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
drive through Windy Hill. From experience in the past in this | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
Rally, that area was not technologically good for me, but I | :06:12. | :06:22. | |
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have got through that, and I will Talk before the event had been | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
about whether Euan Thorburn could finish his Reivers Rally victory by | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
beating David Bogie on his home turf. The results from stage three | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
suggested that if it did not been for the earlier problems, the | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
driver from Barnes might have given the charm a run for his money. Euan | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Thorburn got round almost 10 seconds quicker than David Bogie, | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
and moved up to third place. But, David Bogie was still well out in | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
front, and it looked as if the battle would be for the minor | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
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Armstrong was still in second spot, holding off Euan Thorburn, with a | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
lead of 21 seconds. A great comeback for the Castle Douglas | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
driver. Onstage four, Euan Thorburn again set a pace that nobody else | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
could live with, taking the stage by five seconds from David Bogie | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
and closing the gap on Armstrong to just nine seconds. He was left to | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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rue his shock Filia. It is part of the game, I suppose. -- failure. | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
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David Bogie faced a couple of tricky moments. A very long two | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
right, over 100. He was still 39 seconds ahead of Jock Armstrong. | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
The short blast through the spectator stage was next. Then, it | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
was on to the longest stage of the event. It was a test that held a | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
bad memories for David Bogie. a puncture on it last year and it | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
cost me the victory, so I am under no illusions that the same can | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
happen again. I was trying to keep it out of trouble, but the pace has | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
quickened. Jock Armstrong was able to take advantage of that puncture | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
the previous year and win the event, but he was more preoccupied about | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
holding off Euan Thorburn. Euan Thorburn has come back massively. | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
He is 21 seconds quicker on that stage, and 10 seconds quicker than | :08:50. | :09:00. | |
David, so he has found a bit of speed. I might be one down on the | :09:00. | :09:10. | |
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David Bogie was quickest through Heathhall. With Armstrong and | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Riddick holding on to second position. They increased their lead | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
over Euan Thorburn and Paul Beaton to just over 11 seconds, going on | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
to the longest stage of the day. On that final test, David Bogie and | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Euan Thorburn finished with the joint fastest time, put in the | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
result of the event beyond doubt, it was the 4th win of the season | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
were David Bogie. Euan Thorburn did just enough to make second from | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
Armstrong, but he was pondering what might have been. You try very | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
hard, and that is all we could have done, really. We got second, which | :10:12. | :10:19. | |
is probably unbelievable, after this morning's stage the. Jock | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
Armstrong made an impressive comeback the Finnish in third place. | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
We're all on that tender area, today, but those boys have beaten | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
me today, fair and square. again, there was no stopping David | :10:33. | :10:43. | |
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Bogie. In has been a very good beer. -- it has been a very good day. The | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
pace has been very good. Everybody has been trying out. I have really | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
enjoyed it. After three second place finishes, Mike Walker was | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
disappointed not to make it onto the podium, but he was lucky to | :10:59. | :11:08. | |
reach the end at all. I nosedived into the ground and the were still | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
accelerating when we should have been braking, going at about 40 | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
miles an hour too fast, and then be straight down the pits for about | :11:16. | :11:25. | |
100 yards. Local crew Peter Stuart and Phil Short were not as | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
fortunate as Faulkner. They left the road near the end of the final | :11:29. | :11:39. | |
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Emergency crews were quickly at the scene, and Peter and Phil were | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
taken to hospital in Dumfries. Phil is get that bad bruising and Peter | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
returned home a few days later after treatment in Glasgow. The | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
car's receive the equipment had done its job, although the drivers | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
will take a bit longer to mend. Barry Groundwater, who shared the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Championship lead with David Bogie going into the weekend would not | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
have been too pleased to have finished in fifth place. David | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
Wilson and co-driver David Robson took the honours and the two-wheel | :12:13. | :12:23. | |
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drive category in their mark to Ford Escort. -- Mark II. The table | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
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When the RSAC roadshow hit Elgin, for the Speyside Rally, the sixth | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
event in the Championship calendar, you know that you're approaching | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
the business end of the competition. David Bogie was looking for is that | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
successive victory at the event. There were and number of other | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
Rally crews snapping at his heels, not least Euan Thorburn, who knew | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
that nothing but a victory would do in this event, to keep his | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
championship hopes alive. It is going to be a sprint race, so we | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
have to be on it from the word go. When you get to this point in the | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
season everything is very closer. This is where whoever wins the | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :13:47. | :14:44. | |
Championship will start to pull After the two glass around the park, | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
John Armstrong held a slim one- second lead from Barry Armstrong -- | :14:50. | :14:58. | |
jock Armstrong held the lead from Barry Groundwater. Euan Thornburn | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
was tied on time with David Bogie. Might fall no made up the top five | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
but the event would not really take shape until the event moved into | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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The stage is suited Euan Thornburn and Paul Beaton in their Ford Focus. | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
The superior traction and handling of the world rally car meant the | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
crew could take advantage of running first on the smooth roads. | :15:50. | :15:58. | |
By the end of stage four, they had recorded two fastest stage times | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
and where six seconds ahead of Armstrong and co-driver Kirsty | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
Riddick. They were still finding their Subaru Impreza. More | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
importantly for Thornburn's hopes of winning the title, he put 16 | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
seconds between himself and David Bogie. Kevin Ray was third. Mike | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
Faulkner and Peter for you were doing well to hang on to their | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
coat-tails. And there was a spirited effort from Chris Collie | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
and Lisa Watson in their egos six to complete the top five -- in | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
their Mitsubishi evoke six. They all drove the test quicker than | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
organisers thought they could. Thornburn, Armstrong and Bogie were | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
all given the same scratch time. The stages are fantastic and they | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
really drive corner, corner, corn and fast car stuff as well. Euan's | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
car will help him but he still is the driver of the car and they | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
cannot take it away from him. He is put in the car together now. Good | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
on him. It would be nice to be -- beat him, that is all! | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
defending champion was not having the best day behind the wheel. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
there was a misfire and the car in front stopped in the middle of the | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Road. We lost a bit of time there. Int Comm failed two-thirds through | :17:39. | :17:49. | |
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the stage and then we all beat the normal time. Mike Faulkner had been | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
4th in the previous round in Dumfries and he was struggling to | :17:52. | :18:02. | |
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The Indonesian pairing of Donny MacDonald and Andrew fog now have | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
been quietly increasing their pace through the season. Although only | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
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30 be in the championship in Elgin -- only 30th. If they did have a | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
moment, it has given us a chance for fingers crossed to be behind | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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Thornburn recorded another fastest stage time to pull 18 seconds clear | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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But the most remarkable result of the day came on stage seven where | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
the front three recorded exactly the same time on the seven-mile | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
test. By this time, Quentin Milne thought he had forced himself into | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
the reckoning, grabbing 5th spot from McDonald. But after | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
discovering he picked up a time penalty on stage six, Quentin Milne | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
decided to retire and save the car for the next event. | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
Chris Collie with co-pilot Lisa Watson had slipped down to 7th and | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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would finish one place higher for Thornburn and Paul Beaton looked to | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
be home, it they recorded their second event winner of the season. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
More importantly, he kept the championship fight alive for | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
another round. We need two more of these. That is the plan. It will be | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
hard to beat David in the championship now. I am chuffed. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
real battle was for second place. Armstrong and Riddick had been | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
reeled in and held on their one- second lead over Bogie and Ray in | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
third. With crucial championship points at stake and time running | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
out, Bogie put in a final push to grab second spot. Bogie had done | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
enough and he claimed the runner- up's position by a single second. | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Hopefully things will fall into place. As I say, this will not be | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
easy. These guys are all driving very hard so we will see what | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
happens. There was a hack Tipping performance from Ian Robertson and | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
Keith Nicol who finished 11th overall who finished in their Ford | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
Escort Mark two. And there was a hugely impressive drive by John | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Boyd and Chris Williamson in their Ford Fiesta S T who maintained | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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leader board is building to an exciting climax. Barry Groundwater | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
his 5th. John McClory is for. Mike Faulkner his third. You and the | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
armed bun's victory pushes him into second. But David Bogie is still | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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out in front with 148 points. Euan Thornburn is in second. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
The penultimate event on the calendar, only four stages long, | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
one of them was the 19 miles long. Euan Thornburn had to win to keep | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
the championship alive. David Bogie only had to finish second to claim | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
a 4th consecutive SRC Crown. have just got be serious about what | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
we are doing and try to drive fast and keep the car on the road. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
know what we have to do today, it is really straight forward, we have | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
to win. I'm looking forward to it. You could not discount last year's | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
Merit winner, Mike felt there. is a tight battle between UN and | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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David -- last year's Merrick when co-driver Paul Beaton made it clear | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
that David Bogie would have to win. They blasted through the stage five | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
seconds quicker than anyone else. The stage was not easy. It was | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
slippy and narrow with big rocks. There was a long section at the end. | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
They were forcing us off the track into the grass. We were really | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
lucky there. Need to calm down a bit for the rest. Bogie and | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
navigator Kevin Ray were second. Local driver Jock Armstrong were a | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
further four seconds adrift. I know we are losing time-outs at | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
junctions, it is a bit scrappy. We are having to decide what tired to | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
use. But tie lasted well for the first stage but whether it would go | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
90 miles, I don't know. Might form now and Peter for we were 4th | :24:04. | :24:14. | |
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another fastest time. But the effort could have cost them. | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
box is stuck in 6th gear. La three or four and Miles, could not get | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
down through the box so had to concentrate. Have to see if I can | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
fix it. Bogie and Ray were steady enough | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
and second but they also had problems picking up a puncture with | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
3.5 miles left to run through the forest. I was all over the place. | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
It is real braves stuff and the last thing you want is the back end | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
moving about. It was not ideal. The stage itself was in good condition. | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
It was one rock. Jock Armstrong and Kirsty Riddick were clinging on to | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
third spot. But all eyes were on the service bay of teen Thornburn | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
and the sounds were not looking good. There is an oil leak coming | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
from somewhere so we have to see where it is coming from and if we | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
can go out in the last two stages. I want to stay in the league if we | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
can. But potentially, it could be over. Fingers crossed for good news. | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
While the mechanics worked feverishly to get the car back on | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
the road, there was advice and concern from his closest rival. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
good at this stage so hopefully he gets back out. It is not what you | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
want to see. It is not what I want to see but hopefully they will get | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
back out. Euan Thornburn was making desperate attempts to contact his | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
car preparation company to see if there was a fix for the oil problem. | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
If he did not get out of service, his title hopes would vanish. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
oil in the system. If I ran dry it will knacker the transmission. We | :26:19. | :26:27. | |
will have to see if we can top the oil up. Finally, the car burst into | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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life. But could he keep it going until the end? The pump is not | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
working. It is on manual shift. If you can keep the oil in, it will be | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
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duty the Duns driver's gearbox had consolidated his third position | :27:27. | :27:36. | |
in the event and led a 4th place might Faulkner by 20 seconds. | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
Donnie MacDonald and Andrew Faulkner were putting together | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
another consistent performance to boost themselves into 5th. | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Thornburn's extra long service stop meant he had lost his place in the | :27:48. | :27:55. | |
running order so Bogie went not knowing whether his adversary was | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
still in the event. When he came at the other side in the second | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
quickest time for the stage, he was taking nothing for granted. I don't | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
know if he left service for a start. It is always the same, the last | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
stage in the rally, the one that could decide the championship, it | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
is about keeping it under control, not getting any punctures and that | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
is what we have done. I think we have been pretty cautious. Sadly | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
for Thornburn, his mechanical problems meant he had retired | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
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thought for Euan Thorburn, who had come into this season with a new | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
car that he had begun to master, and he had begun to push David | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
Bogie, but it was not quite enough. There is hard to put into words, | :29:00. | :29:05. | |
obviously, he deserves it, but it is not very good, finishing like | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
this. I think it is something that is going to sink in come tomorrow | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
morning. I am very happy, I have had a hard you, but an enjoyable | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
rear -- year. The podium was completed by Jock Armstrong, who | :29:20. | :29:25. | |
finished second, at last year's's winner, Mike Faulkner, was third. | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
The title might have been decided but it was still all to play for in | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
the race for second place. Barry Groundwater is tough with 115 | :29:33. | :29:43. | |
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With the title sewn up, Euan Thorburn and Mike Faulkner went | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
into the last event of the season battling for second place in the | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
Championship. If Euan Thorburn finished nor an fourth place, he | :30:14. | :30:24. | |
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would secure his second overall runners-up position. David Bogie | :30:25. | :30:33. | |
had elected to take part in a Ford Escort Mark 2, hired in from | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
Ireland for the day. There is no comparison. The similarity being | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
that the car is always pulling at the front end whereas now there is | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
no pool at the front end and we're working with the rear, so it is | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
completely different. It will be a learning curve, so I am just | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
desperate to get a couple of stages out of the way. David Bogie and | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
Kevin Rea led off the event with plenty enthusiasm but no great | :30:59. | :31:08. | |
His it would be interesting to see how the Scottish champion cope with | :31:09. | :31:18. | |
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the new car over such a challenging himself on the field from the start. | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
But his challenge was over almost before it began. At the third | :31:41. | :31:47. | |
corner of stage one has Ford Focus world rally car hit a rock. It has | :31:47. | :31:55. | |
altered in suspension and will damage. -- will damage. You must be | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
gutted that that end to the season. The season did not start well and | :31:58. | :32:04. | |
it has ended on a bad note. It is my fault, we got a puncture and it | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
shocked at the wheel back. We did get to the end of the stage. Fair | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
play to Mike, he has done well all year, so he probably deserves it. | :32:13. | :32:22. | |
It is just a bad weekend. The way was clear for Mike Walker and Peter | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
Foy to claim second in the Championship. Even and on Finnish | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
would not scupper their chances, but the peer were desperate to win | :32:30. | :32:35. | |
the event and were lying in Max second place after a stage one. At | :32:35. | :32:39. | |
the start of the season Quinton Milne had been the experts' tip to | :32:39. | :32:45. | |
do well, but mechanical gremlins torpedoed his title hopes long ago. | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
Driving without the pressure of having to win seemed to suit | :32:48. | :32:55. | |
Clinton Milne. And he raced into the lead with a 2.5 second cushion | :32:55. | :33:01. | |
over Mike Faulkner. Chris Cawley and Lisa wasn't were going well in | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
that third place, one place ahead of... Barry Groundwater and Mel | :33:06. | :33:13. | |
Shanks, who had also started well, doing their prospects of ending in | :33:13. | :33:21. | |
the top five no harm at all. Falter and for a clear round stage two, | :33:21. | :33:28. | |
Griffin. They could not overhaul the Aberdeenshire driver in the | :33:28. | :33:37. | |
overall standings. Watson put another determined drive in through | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
Griffin and retained their place. The battle water supplies was | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
getting interesting. John McClory went through five seconds quicker | :33:47. | :33:53. | |
than Barry Groundwater. David Bogie had not started well in his Escort | :33:53. | :33:59. | |
Mk II, coming early 23rd place after stage one, but the champion | :33:59. | :34:05. | |
that he is, he hauled himself back up into 12th place, 33 seconds down | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
on the leader, Quintin Milne. Last year's dreadful weather made | :34:10. | :34:17. | |
servicing a nightmare, so organisers use the Community Campus | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
in Aberfeldy as the first stopping the event. After these two stages, | :34:21. | :34:28. | |
how has it been? In it has certainly been a challenge, we got | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
a puncture towards the end of the stage, so it was not an ideal start | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
but we were happy with the time on the second stage. We said we would | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
get the first two stage is out of the way and push on from there, | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
that is what he did. For second place in the Championship confirm, | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
Faulkner and Folly had their sights set on catching Quintin Milne. | :34:51. | :35:01. | |
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Despite some mechanical scares, the two, and then we had a scare just | :35:09. | :35:18. | |
towards the end of the stage. It did not cost us any real time. We | :35:18. | :35:28. | |
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three, coming in pence seconds ahead of London Milne. -- Faulkner | :35:55. | :36:04. | |
continued. It was bad news for Chris Cawley and Lisa wasn't the | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
drop-out due to mechanical problems, a disappointing end to what had | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
been a good season. Barry Groundwater kept his nose in front | :36:12. | :36:20. | |
of John McClory, and found himself 11 seconds clear. David Bogie made | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
a big charge through the field, completing the stage 4th quickest | :36:25. | :36:31. | |
to move into fifth place overall. Not bad for somebody who only had a | :36:31. | :36:38. | |
brief test drive in de Escort Mk II the previous week. Faulkner failed | :36:38. | :36:45. | |
to start stage four because of electrical problems, so Quinton | :36:45. | :36:54. | |
Milne recapture the lead 29 seconds ahead of Barry Groundwater. He was | :36:54. | :37:01. | |
still leading, but could not shake John McClory. Until a puncture in | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
Stage 5 put a dent in the challenge from the Glasgow driver. We thought | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
we had reeled in Barry Groundwater in the first three a four stages, | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
but he has managed to get away. He was due some luck and we were you | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
some bad luck, so here we go. Quentin Milne was fastest truce | :37:24. | :37:27. | |
these five and was beginning to pull away from the second-placed | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
Barry Groundwater. David Bogie charged through Stage 5 in the | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
second quickest time and now found himself in a podium position at one | :37:37. | :37:42. | |
stage left. E each stage is getting better and better. I am not sure | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
what the time was like in that last stage, but certainly, it felt good | :37:47. | :37:51. | |
and I felt like the car, I knew what it was going to do, but we | :37:51. | :37:57. | |
have got a long way to go. If David Bogie was back in familiar | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
territory, the same cannot be said of Clinton Milne, who was making | :38:02. | :38:12. | |
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his crew work overtime to help him win his first src event. I have had | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
a pretty tormented year, getting punctures and mechanical failures, | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
the last one was my fault, but if I can keep it together for one more | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
stage it would be a great end to the season. It is looking promising | :38:32. | :38:39. | |
if you can keep it together. I hope so. It is truly rough out there. | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
That second last one, you have got your fingers crossed that you do | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
not get a puncture. Are you going to take it a little more calmly, or | :38:47. | :38:57. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 56 seconds | :38:57. | :39:49. | |
steady progress and had climbed to fourth place by end of stage 5. He | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
fell back to fifth place, but it has been another cracking season | :39:53. | :40:02. | |
for the Inverness driver. Unbelievably, bearded bogies cost | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
around in the quickest time to finish third in the event. Bus - | :40:06. | :40:13. | |
David Bogie. He elected not to score SRC points so as not to | :40:13. | :40:19. | |
interfere with the battle for places. The first time in a rear- | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
wheel-drive car, it feels like I have won the rally, it has been a | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
very enjoyable day, first-class stages, very slippy, very muddy, | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
and it was not easy but the last two stages I felt as if I was | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
driving the car the way that it should be driven, and it was very | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
rewarding. That performance was enough to seal second place for the | :40:41. | :40:49. | |
stony wind driver. -- Stonehaven. Clinton Milne and Martin Forrest | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
back of a little on the final stage but did enough to take the spoils. | :40:55. | :41:01. | |
Here is the winner, what was it like? I have been quite a few | :41:01. | :41:08. | |
things today, bent both arms, lost the brakes, and they got some | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
sponsorship from: when I was a junior, he was good friends from my | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
dad, but it is a decent finish at the end of the season. Mike Bock - | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
had done enough to be runner up to David Bogie in the Championship in | :41:21. | :41:29. | |
his venerable Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 6. The enjoyment we get is building | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
the car up to compete at the top end and that is what makes the | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
Scottish championship, you do not have to spend a fortune to be able | :41:35. | :41:41. | |
to do it, you can build a car and compete with it top guys, and that | :41:41. | :41:46. | |
is what makes the Championship what it is. Although he ended that day, | :41:46. | :41:52. | |
two places behind Barry Groundwater, Glasgow's John McClory pulled off | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
an impressive third place overall in that the title race. It no | :41:58. | :42:02. | |
front-wheel-drive category, Alex Pirie and David Law clinched their | :42:02. | :42:11. | |
second successive championship in a Vauxhall Corsa. Dougal Brown from | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
Inverness confirmed his superiority in the prestigious group in class. | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
And Craig Rutherford from the Isle of Mull won the class of and in his | :42:20. | :42:29. | |
Honda Civic. At Raisa Wilson in an exodus Elijah Evo 6 finished best | :42:29. | :42:39. | |
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in the Colin McRae Rally. Here is the final table. Euan Thorburn's | :42:41. | :42:46. | |
dismal end to the seasons on sink to fifth place. Barry Groundwater | :42:46. | :42:55. | |
claimed 4th. John McClory was in that place. Mike Faulkner's overall | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
consistency push them into second place. There was no doubting the | :43:00. | :43:09. | |
SRC master, four-time champion David Bogie, with 170 points. We | :43:09. | :43:14. | |
have a first-time winner in the shape of Quentin Milne, well done | :43:14. | :43:19. |