And there’s a competition to name this specific rally – on 5th and 6th July 2014. This Friday, 28th February, at Campbeltown Grammar School, starting at 2pm in the Assembly Hall, there’s a half day event on rally care and road safety where Kintyre pupils will get to meet some of the stars of the Blue Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship.
As Machrihanish Air Base prepares for Kintyre’s very first rally on the weekend of July 5th and 6th, the organisers of the Blue Scottish Tarmack Rally Championship have organised a fun and informative day for local pupils in Campbeltown.
They will have the chance to learn all about the thrills of professional motor sport from the experts, with a rare insight into what happens on the track and behind the scenes.
They will be able to get up close and personal themselves to a number of bona fide rally cars which will arrive at thier school.
An integral part of the half-day event will also focus entirely on road safety, with advice for future motorists on how to enjoy driving while staying safe and legal . . . and the importance of leaving motor sport where it belongs – with the professionals on the rally championship stages.
The Kintyre rally is organised by Dunfermline Car Club [DCC], which has been rallying and organising such prestigious motoring events for more than 40 years
Event coordinator and Car Club committee member, David Hatrick, says: ‘It’s great that the sport can offer something back to the local community, a community that has been very gracious in welcoming and supporting the inaugural Kintyre rally.
‘This is the perfect chance to fire up young imaginations about a future in motor sport – not just in driving and navigating, but also in automotive mechanics, events management, organisation and safety.
‘It is also an opportunity to help children, who will young people, soon be young adults behind the wheel, to appreciate how vitally important it is to stay safe at all time on the roads.’
The visiting team will consist of David Hatrick [Events Co-ordinator], Keith Cowan [Events Chief Marshall] and Alison Clark [Go Motorsport].
This initiative holds huge promise for young people in Kintyre in following and engaging in motorsport. Argyll has a lively portfolio of motorsport events and a lot of first class home grown drivers in rallying a d in race driving – from the Duffy brothers on Mull to Oban’s Susie Wolff [Stoddart].
It would be fabulous to see a series of motorsport champions starting to focus attention on Kintyre.
With:
- the airport at Campbeltown capable of taking any aircraft;
- the A83 now trunked all the way from Loch Lomond down the spectacular west coast of the Kintyre peninsula;
- West Coast Motors running five return coaches a day from Glasgow;
- and Kintyre Express running a summer season fast passenger ferry service to Ballycastle in Northern Ireland…
this part of the world can support as much interest as the enterprising can grow.
Name the Kintyre rally
The grand finale of the fun day will be the announcement of an exciting competition, with the organisers asking young people from all over Kintyre to suggest an official name for the new rally.
The rules and entry dates will be announced on the day, with the final winner expected to be chosen in the coming weeks.
Anyone who would like more information on the Campbeltown Grammar School event, on the inaugural Kintyre rally, or who would like to keep up with events as the countdown to the big weekend of Rallying begins, can visit the Dunfermline car club website here – or join the growing legion of fans on the event’s Facebook page here.
More information will be on the Dunfermline Car Club website soon.