North of England Tarmacadam Rally Championship – Ingliston Bulletin

Regulations have just been released for the next event in the championship – the Squarepage Systems Stages. This rally, scheduled for Saturday 24th April, is being organised by Dunfermline Car Club and will be based at Ingliston, near Edinburgh. The organisers are offering 8 stages giving about 40 competitive miles and they will also be using a new part of the venue which is 100% tarmac but has never been used for rallying before.

Something else new for this event will be television coverage. The organisers have done a deal to get an hour on television with a DVD going to all that enter the rally. Details have yet to be finalised but there will be £20 added to the entry fee with the organisers picking up the other half of the cost and it will be shown on Motors TV.

As mentioned before, the organisers are very keen to stress that this rally is NOT a re-run of the event scheduled there on 13th March. They will be using completely new routes allowing for much more flexibility and more miles.

The Jim Clark Rally organisers have published preliminary details of their 2010 event with the issuing of Rally Guide 1.

The Jim Clark National Rally is the fifth round of this year’s championship. This will take place on the evening of Friday 28th and Saturday 29th May and is part of 6 separate ‘rallies’ taking place that weekend. It is the annual opportunity to compete over the closed public roads around the Duns area.

Rally Guide 1 provides information about all six different rallies to be held over the late May Bank Holiday weekend. Included in the document are details of the six rallies, including the National Rally which will be based in Kelso.

With regard to re-fuelling you should be aware that this will be done only by visiting the re-fueling rigs or a petrol station. No-one will be allowed to put fuel in cars by any other means. Carless and Sunoco have confirmed that they will be at the Jim Clark Rally and they will be in position for the duration of the three days of competition. Shell have yet to make a commitment. At present I cannot say whether there will be room in the zone that the organisers have in mind. There will definitely be NO management cars / auxiliary vehicles allowed on the National and those that infringe this will be penalised.

The organisers promise that the event regulations and entry forms are due out during the week commencing 15th March with entries closing at the discounted rates on May 4th.

It should be noted that the organisers have declared that all of their communications will only be available via the event’s website. The Rally Guide 1 is to be found in the ‘competitors’ section of the site you can go directly there by using the following link www.jimclarkrally.com

Anyone having trouble accessing the site should contact either Colin Pagan, on 07967 478765 or David Malthouse on 07792 226914