Thompson speedway motorsports park is a brand new venue for red bull grc, which will be running two events there this weekend. The first driver in the 2008 granite city rally to set off will be bruce mccombie from banchory who will be driving a ford puma. Andrew haddon, team rallispec cambridgeshire report. Teenage scottish rally driver dave weston junior is using his richard burns trophy prize money to give himself extra stage mileage on the border. Metcalfe, 35, drove for vauxhall motors since the mid80s and was regarded as one of europes leading frontwheeldrive experts. In 1964 a change of teams to ford motor company produced 2nd on the circuit of ireland, a win on the alpine rally and 3rd on the rac rally.
Points are awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the. Thats the full entry list for this saturdays kingdom stages rally at crail. In the end it was the crew of dave weston and dave robson in their. Driver with prostetic arm tentenths motorsport forum. Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements.
Points are awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of points over the season is declared champion the 2011 season begins in the snowcovered forest tracks around inverness on 19 february, with the. Dave weston junior and aled davies tackle the technical ravens rock rally in southern ireland. The scottish rally championship is a rallying series run throughout scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel rallies and one tarmac event. Dave has been involved with dirt track racing 6 cylinder production 20112012 1st overall and driver of the year. Unlike mikko, he struggled to find a setup that best suited his driving style. Dave weston on the red dragon rally 2006 in his ford focus wrc, on his way to winning the event also smashes into haybales. David richards has been a world rally champion, principal of two formula one teams and chairman of aston martin. Young scottish driver dave weston junior claimed his maiden victory as he won sundays pickeringbased malton forest rally. Scottish crew dave weston and kirsty riddick took a dominant victory at this weekends somerset stages rally, winning all but one of the twelve stages in the minehead based event. The subaru impreza wrc duo made the long drive from aberdeen to the third round of the reisravenol btrda series and emerged clear winners with an exacting 1 minute. Andy davison and mike curry took victory in the 2008 kall kwik rally driving a.
Overall results at the finish the xpart rally 16th feb 20 final 20217 02. Queensland drivers seeding list 11 april 2014 seeding index seeding index seeding index kim ackworth 0. Previous champions 2020 mrf tyres btrda rally series. Points were awarded to the top placed drivers and the driver scoring the highest number of. Dave has shown good pace in both the msa british rally championship and the. Please consider supporting us by disabling adblock. Weston earns pirelli shootout opportunity world rally news. The 1995 rac rally was a straight race between colin mcrae and carlos sainz for the drivers championship.
Dave weston ford focus wrc red dragon rally youtube. Sir frank bowden taikai 2008 kendo championships duration. Roll of honour motorsport uk scottish rally championship. David weston operations manager global port services. Fia world rally championship fia results and statistics. Following in the footsteps of his father dave weston, who was the first.
Rally championship saw dave weston take his 3rd rsac scottish rally win. The 70s rally driver mike jackson had a prosthetic left arm i think. His reputation flourished as he chalked up a succession of class wins in the 1983 btrda series, at the wheel of an escort 1600, and continued to. Road rally is the original form that is held on highways under normal trafficthese are primarily amateur events.
The lancer in question will however be a different one to the car that has brought milne up to sixth overall in the championship, with milne building a new. The cumbrian driver gave the 16v astra gte its world championship debut on the 1988 lombard rac rally and was a popular competitor in the british. Fia world rally championship the free to access fia results website covers 17 fia championships, including a comprehensive history of the fia formula 1 world championship from 1950 onwards and a full record of all other fia world championships. The event takes place in may or june of every year and the organisation claims that the warm weather and unique forest stages draw competitors from around the world. Essex based rally driver andrew haddon took an emphatic class victory and second overall on the oakington stages rally on sunday 10th feb. Join facebook to connect with dave weston and others you may know. In order to participate in rally car racing, one needs to hold a valid drivers license and have lots of practice.
Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. David stone the official site of the rally champion. Also in attendance will be the welsh national rally championships leading lady rally driver. Competing in the pwrc in two rounds, he was sixth in rally gb, his home event, with a. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover davids connections and jobs at similar companies. For those so inclined, attached you will find the complete scoring spreadsheet in excel format. Rally driver posted in historical research, in memory of david mckinney. The car weighs 900 kgs in rally trim and would go on a diet for your hillclimb and performs really well and is always very competitive. Furthermore, his codriver, pete bowles, was subsequently to become the events. Munro couldnt, and become the first driver to win the event twice. David weston marlborough, wilts gb jumps last 5 seasons apr 2015 apr 2020 gb jumps last 5 seasons apr 2015 apr 2020 gb jumps current season apr 2019 apr 2020 gb flat last 5 seasons jan 2016 dec 2020. He learned the ropes in grasstrack racing, before moving on to road rallies and subsequently stage events.
Leading all the way till the final stage, dave weston fell victim to the tricky. Overall results at the finish the xpart rally 16th feb. The 2006 scottish champion dave weston pipped current titleholder david bogie by a single second to win his home event, the cars recovery granite city rally in aberdeen. View david westons profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Before this chance, dave spent driving a vauxhall nova as a junior team member to an army of astra mk2. Stage rallies are the professional form of the sport. The winner of the 2008 granite city rally was phillip morrow from northern ireland who drove a mitsubishi lancer.
Death crash rally driver named a 32yearold rally driver who was killed when his car left the track has been named as david williamson from the penkridge area of staffordshire. Bird, codriven by aled davies, had gone off and dropped a minute to his rival. Dave weston in his subaru impreza wrc s12 on ss6 kershope at the dmack carlisle stages 2015. The 2015 scottish rally championship season was the 47th season of the scottish rally championship, a rallying series run throughout scotland over the course of a year. Richard burns was born in reading on january 17th 1971 and became one of britains leading rally drivers, securing the world championship in 2001 and scoring a total of ten world championship. Second place went to dave weston from aberdeen who drove a ford focus wrc. The btrda gold star and silver star rally championships, now in their 66th year, have always been seen as the pinnacle of club rallying in the uk and to be a btrda champion is a special accolade. A friend has asked me who was the british rally driver that was killed whilst reccying for the rac some years ago. The 2008 season finale, the colin mcrae forest stages rally saw an enhanced entry list of rally legends in honour of colin who died in 2007. This constraint didnt stop him driving a fully equipped rs1800 and getting it into the top 10 on national rallies. Though he lacked the family resources to pursue an expensive sport, he worked in the motor trade and managed to claw his way into the british leyland factory team when they. In 1998 the event became the penultimate round of the scottish rally championship.
Red bull grc returns to new england this weekend the drive. The personal web site of rally driver david higgins. I cannot think who it was so i throw it over to the ph font of wisdom. Weston to enter border counties rally rally uk news. The british rally driver, born in hillingdon in 1946, always encapsulated a specific sort of blue collar derringdo one that was very english and very of the period. The royal scottish automobile club rsac scottish rally is the highlight of the scottish rally championship and the longeststanding rally event in scotland, having been first contested in 1932. Like the andy davies rallying facebook page for updates and news throughout the season as we contest the btrda championship in our subaru impreza n12b. List of famous rally drivers biographies, timelines. I think that he basically steered on the right arm whilst his codriver mike jackson changed gear and used the handbrake.
Created in 2003 by legendary driver tom meents, maxd, aka maximum destruction, is the mostdecorated monster truck, with a record 11 monster jam world finals championships, as. It was due to be contested over eight gravel rallies, but this was reduced to six events in 2015 after two rallies were cancelled. Weston jnrs selection was confirmed by msa performance director and 2001 world rally champion co driver robert reid. There was no single overall winner of the rally but g. The royal scottish automobile club rsac scottish rally is the highlight of the scottish rally. The result denied bogie his third straight scottish championship win of the season, and ended a remarkable run of eight successive victories in the src stretching back to the. The scottish rally championship is a rallying series run throughout scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel rallies. Rally driver dave metcalfe has been killed in a road accident. An affable and courteous man, dave, aged 35, was one of his sports true ambassadors. He was pronounced dead at the scene after losing control of his peugeot 205 gti at the wyedean rally on saturday and suffering a severe head injury.
The scenario was simple, win the rally and you will be champion and after the 1st stage perez, codriven by paul spooner, was fastest through the stage. As if the prospect of two drivers going headtohead on the final round of the season. The banchory driver is a familiar sight on src rounds in his mitsubishi lancer evolution ix and milne will revert back to the popular marque for the final round at the galloway hills rally. John did the 1961 rac rally reading notes for porsche driver hansjoachim walter and i ran the service car for them. The crash actually happened driving a new vauxhall calibra 4x4 turbo gn rally car. I have become interested in ehs rally career, which appears to stretch from 1955 to 1973, or thereabouts. In 2007, age 17, dave junior made his wrc debut driving a ford fiesta st in his home round, the rally gb, and finished 77th.