HANKOOK SRC MID-YEAR BROADCAST
The mid-year TV programme showing events so far
from the 2010 Hankook Scottish Rally
Championship is to be broadcast on BBC2 this
Sunday at 7.20pm.
SNOWMAN RALLY WINS AWARD
The organising team of the Arnold Clark Thistle
Hotel Snowman Rally are proud and pleased to
have been awarded the Inverness City Advertiser
2010 Award for Best Sporting Event at the recent
ICA Awards Ceremony. It just goes to show
how popular the event is locally, and amongst
ICA readers in particular. Well done and
thanks to all the organising team for all their
efforts.
ANGLIA
BOOSTS WRC ENTRY FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS
Following a steady rise in the number of World
Rally Cars contesting the Barbados Rally Club’s
(BRC) blue riband
event, the on-line entries for Sol Rally
Barbados (May 29/30) suggest the total will
reach record levels again for the 2010 event,
which celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the
inaugural running of the Club’s International
All-Stage Rally.
And,
alongside the usual suspects - Ford Focus WRC,
Subaru Impreza WRC
and Toyota Corolla WRC for instance - there’s a
Ford Anglia WRC. In this instance, however, the
initials WRC stand for Well-Run Car;
the car’s owner, Scottish scrap dealer Allan
Mackay, and Northern Irish co-driver ‘MadMo’
Downey are among seven first-time overseas
entries so far received.
This is no ordinary Anglia - dating from 1959,
it is the same age as its owner. Fifty-year-old
Mackay explains: “I have owned this car since I
was 14, and I have another 14
Anglias, along with
a Group A Mitsubishi
Lancer Evo VI.”
Built by Mackay Motorsport and now prepared by
Northern Ireland company
Mark Greer Motorsport, the Anglia is powered by
a 1.6-litre eight-valve all-steel engine,
developing 185bhp; the upgrades include throttle
bodies, six-speed sequential gearbox,
fully-floating axle, all-round
Proflex suspension
and power steering.
Having
started in motor sport in 1977, using the Anglia
for both circuit racing and rallying, Mackay
went on to win the 1989 Scottish Tarmac
Championship; more recently, he and co-driver
Downey have won their class in the Northern
Ireland Rally Championship in 2006 & ’07,
although a major accident on the 2006 Easter
Stages, when they rolled the
Evo VI, is an event
they will not soon forget.
Downey says: “I first sat with Allan on the
Mourne Stages, a
Northern Ireland Championship round, in 2005.
I had only met him the day before, but we’ve
been great friends ever since. For the last
couple of years, we have done Double Zero car on
the Snowman Rally in two feet of snow, so we’re
looking forward to the sunshine.”
Photographs courtesy of Graham Curry
