Scottish Tarmac Championship Round 2

4th May 2013

The second round of the Scottish Championship was held at Ingliston Fairground on the 27th April. The event consists of 42 stage miles over 8 stages with the surface being all tarmac; the weather on the Saturday was cold but sunny.

The Hamilton Optimum Training Kadett driven by Bill and navigated by Sara Hamilton was seeded 33rd out 65 competitors. Earlier this year Bill and Sara had competed at round 1 Knockhill Racetrack unfortunately at this very wet event the Kadett hit a tyre wall damaging the rear of the car, they managed to finish the event but this was the first event since the repair so it was with a bit of trepidation that they tackled stages 1 and 2 but by the end of stage 2 they had moved up to 9th overall.

A reseed by the organisers after stage 2 moved them up the seeding to 15th which allowed them to move up the leader board as they were not catching slower cars. The Hamilton Optimum Training Kadett was having a ding dong of a battle with the Escort of Chris McCallum swapping places and seconds all day and going into stage 7 the Kadett was 1 second behind Chris and 8th overall.

With a big push of stage 7 and 8 Bill and Sara emerged 9 seconds in front of the Escort and a terrific 6th overall, 2nd in Class and first RWD car. To crown the day they were awarded Best Prepared Car by the Scrutineers and Marshalls. The event was won by Chris Anderson in a Ford Fiesta 1990cc.

Results can be found at http://www.scotresults.co.uk/dccstages2013.html and an in car video of the Kadett at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmTcNC_thRw.

Picture by Colin Smith