2019 Scottish Rally Championship

The Scottish Rally Championship is a rallying series run throughout Scotland over the course of a year, that comprises seven gravel surface events.^[1]

2019 Scottish Rally Championship

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The 2019 series began on the snow-covered forest tracks around Inverness on 9 February, with the season finale taking place around Dalbeattie on 14 September.

Following the Grampian Stages Rally in August, Euan Thorburn and regular co-driver Paul Beaton were declared champions in their Ford Focus WRC. They had won four of the five events thus far and were uncatchable in the points table.

2019 calendar

For season 2019 there are to be seven events held predominantly on gravel surfaces.^[2]

Snowman Rally On 7 February it was announced via the organisers Facebook account that the 2019 event would be cancelled. The reason given was attributed to the extremely unsafe conditions of the course, with all stages having a thick covering of Ice.^[3]

Round	Dates	Event	Rally HQ	Surface	Website
-	Cancelled	Snowman Rally	Inverness	Gravel / Snow	(website)
1	16 Mar	Border Counties Rally	Jedburgh	Gravel	(website)
2	20 Apr	Speyside Stages Rally	Elgin	Gravel	(website)
3	18 May	RSAC Scottish Rally	Lockerbie	Gravel	(website)
4	22 Jun	Argyll Rally	Dunoon	Gravel	(website)
5	10 Aug	Grampian Stages Rally	Banchory	Gravel	(website)
6	14 Sep	Galloway Hills Rally	Dalbeattie	Gravel	(website)

2019 events podium

Round	Rally name	Podium finishers[4]
		Placing	Driver / Co-Driver	Car	Time / Diff leader
-	Snowman Rally (Cancelled)	1
		2
		3
1	Border Counties Rally (16 March)	1	Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton	Ford Focus WRC	40:51
		2	Garry Pearson / Dale Bowen	Ford Fiesta R5	+0:33
		3	Stephen Petch / Michael Wilkinson[N 1]	Ford Fiesta	+1:26
2	Speyside Stages (20 April)	1	Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton	Ford Focus WRC	39:46
		2	Jock Armstrong / Cameron Fair	Subaru Impreza	+0:41
		3	Freddie Milne / Patrick Walsh	Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII	+1:29
3	RSAC Scottish Rally (18 May)	1	David Bogie / John Rowan	Škoda Fabia R5	40:14
		2	Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton	Ford Focus WRC	+00:06
		3	Garry Pearson / Dale Bowen	Ford Fiesta R5	+00:20
4	Argyll Rally (22 June)	1	Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton	Ford Focus WRC	40:36
		2	Garry Pearson / Dale Bowen	Ford Fiesta R5	+01:02
		3	Bruce McCombie / Michael Coutts	Ford Focus WRC	+01:44
5	Grampian Stages Rally (10 August)	1	Euan Thorburn / Paul Beaton	Ford Focus WRC	42:30
		2	Jock Armstrong / Cameron Fair	Subaru Impreza	+0:27
		3	John Wink / Neil Shanks	Hyundai i20 R5	+1:55
6	Galloway Hills Rally (14 September)	1	David Bogie / John Rowan	Mini WRC	41:15.2
		2	Jock Armstrong / Cameron Fair	Subaru Impreza	+1:08.3
		3	Michael Binnie / Claire Mole	Mitsubishi Lancer EVO IX	+1:52.6

1. Crew was not registered to score points towards the Scottish Rally Championship.

Drivers Points Classification

Pos Driver Car SNO BCR SSR SCO ARG GSR GHR  Points[5] 1 Euan Thorburn Ford Focus WRC - 1 1 2 1 1 DNS* 148 2 Jock Armstrong Subaru Impreza - 5 2 4 DNS* 2 2 135 3 Michael Binnie Mitsubishi Evo IX - 4 4 9* 4 4 3 131 4 Keith Morris Mitsubishi Evo IX - 13 10 10 Ret* 7 7 109 4= Alan Dickson Mitsubishi Evo IX - 10* 9 10 7 9 7 109 Pos Driver Car SNO BCR SSR SCO ARG GSR GHR  Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Non-podium finish Purple Did not finish (DNF) Black Disqualified (DSQ) Blank Did not start (DNS) Blue Nominated dropped points

Points are awarded to the highest placed registered driver on each event as follows: 30, 28, 27, 26, and so on down to 1 point. At the end of the Championship, competitors will count their best 5 scores out of the 6 events as his/her final overall Championship score.