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Aberdeenshire’s Barry Clark, contesting only his second World Rally Championship event, continued his education by completing the penultimate leg of the inaugural Rally of Turkey on the verge of clinching a top 10 finish. The 25-year-old from Ellon, driving his Ford Focus RS WRC 07, starts tomorrow’s final three stages pushing the…

Bathgate’s Dario Franchitti faces a tough outing in the latest round of the Nascar Sprint Cup in Michigan after rain washed out qualifying at the two-mile Michigan International Speedway. The 35-year-old Scot, who posted his best qualifying of the season a week ago when he started from 14th on the grid at…

Aberdeenshire’s Barry Clark, contesting only his second World Rally Championship event, continued his education by completing the opening leg of the inaugural Rally of Turkey in 13th place.  And the 25-year-old from Ellon, driving his Ford Focus RS WRC 07, starts tomorrow’s seven stages just 18.6s behind the Suzuki SX4 WRC of…

Ten years after winning the world’s longest and most gruelling race — the Le Mans 24-Hours — for the first time, Allan McNish this week stood bewildered and, completely out of character, speechless. His Audi — thankfully not his diesel-powered R10TDI race car, but his road-going hired A4 — stood in front of…

Aberdeenshire 25-year-old Barry Clark will make his second World Rally Championship appearance in four weeks when he tackles the opening stages of the inaugural Rally Turkey. The Ellon driver, who safely negotiated his way through last month’s Rally Jordan as a last-minute replacement for Argentine driver Luis Perez Companc, will again drive…

Scots racer Allan McNish continued his preparation for this weekend’s Le Mans 24-Hours race by clocking the fourth-fastest time in pre-qualifying.  Piloting his diesel-powered Audi R10TDI, the 38-year-old from Dumfries lapped the 8.47-mile French circuit in 3min 24.105secs. But the Scot believes he can go a whole lot quicker. “We’re just getting…

Wishaw’s Ryan Dalziel is aiming for back-to-back victories in the American Grand-Am Rolex Sportscar Championship when he fires up his Daytona Prototype this weekend for the latest round at  Watkins Glen International Circuit, New York. The 26-year-old Scot, who clinched his maiden win for the Samax Motorsport team at last month’s racer…

Dumfries rally ace David Bogie and co-driver Kevin Rae recorded their second Mitsubishi Ralliart Evolution Challenge victory of the season on the Severn Valley National Rally to move within one point of the championship lead. The talented young Scots duo took the lead on stage three when former front-runners Keith Cronin/Greg Shinnors…

Former Knockhill race instructor, Colin Turkington, bagged back-to-back victories in the latest rounds of the British Touring Car Championship at a rain-lashed Croft near Darlington. But while the Irishman was celebrating in his RAC BMW, Knockhill director Gordon Shedden was left ruing another nightmare weekend in his Team Halfords Honda Civic Type-R…

Bathgate’s Dario Franchitti returned to Nascar action and despite having problems with his Ganassi Dodge finished 15th to extend his lead in the race for the rookie of the year title. But the 35-year-old, who fractured his left ankle in a 180mph crash at Talladega five weeks ago, admitted to finding the…