Our normal reporter, Donald MacDonald was competing today so we only have the briefest of notes:
The start was delayed due to the traditional problems with the fork lift truck!
The weather was great
The entry was poor (unusually for a February trial when people see it as an opportunity to combat cabin fever)
We had more marshals than entrants.
The hills were surprisingly slippery in spite of the dry spell.
Everything was done and dusted by 2.15pm!
Isn’t that incredible? We have a great collection of photos from Alistair Reynolds who submitted 1.7 Gigabytes of images – incredible again. Here are the cars followed by some people. I’m sure there will be more images coming our way from various other sources in the next couple of days.
I hope that you are all well and raring to go for the new season. The plan is that all the snow will have disappeared by Sunday 25th February when we are holding the first production car trial of the year at Forrestburn, however I will be bringing at least four layers of clothing, hat, scarf, gloves and possibly snow goggles with me as usual just in case.
Email me either a completed entry form or if easier, the relevant details requested in the form to me in an email to the address shown below
Print the form, fill it in and send it to me at the address shown in the regulations
Come along to the AGM on Sunday 18th February and give me a completed form there (I will be bringing copies)
As always, I am very grateful to the hearty folk who come out and marshal. If you are able to come along and help out that would be great. Just let me know if you can attend. I wish everyone a great season and look forward to seeing you next month.
In spite of another small conflagration on the fork truck immediately under Keith’s seat en route to opening up at Forrestburn, the day was a great success. Many entered into the spirit of the now traditional silly hat competition and the weather was amazingly good.
The hills were showing the effect of the previous week’s rain and the surface soon became very slippery making traction difficult. It was pleasing to see new faces among both competitors and marshals and it was an excellent way in which to wrap up the events for 2017.
Results will appear eventually when the INDEX OF PERFORMANCE has been calculated. They are here now!
In the meantime, here is collection of images from Trish and Donald – UPDATE – followed by images from George Dow:
PS – if any of the participants that George took pics of (sports cars) who would like larger versions or to see any other of the pics he took of them on the day, please get in touch with George at geedee52@talktalk.net
Our trusty correspondent Donald McDonald was absent at the trial today so there are no words to describe what happened. A dog drove a car, the Blue Book was consulted, the jury is still out. Luckily Shonah was there to record this distressing occasion and George Dow snapped some trials action while the sun sort of shone. I’m sure there was a winner. Not the dog I hope.
Here are some images from the day, courtesy of George Dow and Shonah Gibbon (main image above):
Following on from Donald MacDonald’s excellent article about the final Track Day of 2017 at Forrestburn, Jonathan Neale now invites you to take up the challenge of the Autumn Trials at Forrestburn. He writes:
While Hurricane Irma batters the USA, it’s time to focus our attention on production car trials once more. The regs and entry form for the trials on Sunday 8 October and Sunday 5 November 2017 are now available here and on the events page. As before, please feel free to send me your entry form by email and pay on the day, or by post if you prefer.
Alas, Shonah cannot be with us for the first event and so no catering this time around. However, the barbecue will be available for those that wish to use it. As always, marshals will be made very welcome. Come and join us if you are able. I look forward to meeting with you again next month.
The thing is, this time you definitely will be on the grass – in fact, it will be welcomed. So any hill climb folk who just loved to defy our outgoing Clerk of the Course David Swinton by cutting corners should come along and mess up as much grass as they can manage. Do come along – you may not understand what’s happening … but hardly anyone else does so it’s all good.
Sunday saw some spectacular weather at Forrestburn – the sunniest day yet! Oh, and there was a motorsport event too. The Class Winners were:
Class 1 1st – Andy Baillie Class 3 1st – John Miller Class 4 1st – Fraser Ewart Class 5 1st – Scott Clements Non-Experts Award – Malcolm Gordon Ladies Award – Helen Kirkness
Congratulations to the winners. You can see the results here and here. Many thanks to all the marshals who helped each other to set up the hills as well as score them for you. Particular thanks to Donald MacDonald for giving up competing to make up the marshal numbers. Thanks also to Andrew Gray for this great collection of images from the event – see gallery below.
The next PCT won’t be until October but the fun continues with the season warm-up on Sunday 9 April and the Autotest on Sunday 7 May. Check the web-site for entry details.
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