Category Archives: Motorsport Mutterings

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…

Two weeks after enduring a nightmare outing at Thruxton, Fifer Gordon Shedden will start the first of Sunday’s British Touring Car Championship triple-header at Croft near Darlington from the front row of the grid. The 29-year-old from Dalgety Bay, who was twice forced to retire his Team Halfords Honda after it suffered…

Five weeks after breaking his left ankle in a 180mph crash at Talladega, Bathgate’s Dario Franchitti returns to Nascar action this weekend when he contests the latest round of the Nationwide Series at Dover. The 35-year-old Scot, who completed a two-day test at Pocono Raceway in his Ganassi Dodge earlier this week,…

Guinness rather than Champagne was the order of the day after a trio of Irishmen filled the top three steps on the podium at the end of the Kelso-based Jim Clark International Rally. The annual Borders event, the only rally to be held on closed-off public Tarmac roads on mainland Britain, is…

Rather than Champagne being put on ice for the celebrations at the end of the Jim Clark International Rally in Kelso today, it’s more likely a crate of Guinness will be required after three Irishmen dominated the opening day. The normally quiet roads which meander through the Borders were turned into Britain’s…

Bathgate’s Dario Franchitti will strap himself into his Nascar for the first time this week after breaking his left ankle in a 180mph crash at Talladega last month. The 34-year-old Scot is hopeful of making his Sprint Cup Series return at Dover next weekend. “I’m scheduled to drive the car on Tuesday…

The normally quiet roads which meander through the Borders will this weekend be turned into Britain’s fastest rally stages as the area hosts the biggest single motorsport event of the year, the annual Jim Clark International Rally. A counter in the British Rally Championship, as well as the County Saab Scottish and…