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The David Baxter view
As a little bonus before Easter, here is a great collection of photos from David Baxter of the Production Car Trial on 29 March 2015. Hope you enjoy these as much as Stephen's dog did.
Production Car Trial 29 March 2015
A message from our Chairman, Gordon McRobbie regarding the Production Car Trial held at Forrestburn on 29 March 2015: Once again the weather did us no favours but was slightly better than the last meeting. Many thanks to the marshals who endured the awful weather...
A Trial – but not so bad after all
We've just received this marvellous report from Catherine Noble who marshalled at the Production Car Trial on 1 March 2015. In the interests of balanced reporting, Catherine tells her story of the day below. It's a slightly different take on the previous post's...
Production Car Trial 1 March 2015
The results for Sunday's Production Car Trial are available here and on the Events page here - a day to forget apparently. All the usual photographers and script writers opted out of their duties so thank goodness for Chairman McRobbie who put these fine words...
It’s that time again…
The Chairman of the Club, Rear Admiral Gordon McRobbie has informed us all that the first events of the season are due to take place on 1 March and 29 March 2015. Terrible isn't it? He said, "Once again it is the time of year for the car trials - which seem to come...
MSCC Spring Break: 24 to 26 April 2015
Update: please note that this event is now closed for booking through MSCC but rooms may still be available subject to availability by contacting the hotels direct. The MSCC Spring Break will take place from Friday 24 April till Sunday 26 April 2015. It will take...
Monte Carlo Historic Rally 2015
Several Monklands members took part in the Heritage runs which supported the Paisley Abbey start of the 2015 Monte Carlo Historic Rally on 28 January 2015. Unfortunately the deteriorating weather caused some of the crews to "cut-and-run" rather than face the prospect...
New Year Quiz 2015
Greetings from Monklands Sporting Car Club. We were concerned that you might be bored during the dark days of the New Year so we have put together a little quiz for you - well due credit to Donald MacDonald for this. There are 18 marque badges to be identified. There...
Happy New Year!
A very Happy New Year to everyone. We have published our Calendar of Events for 2015 which you can study with awe and respect. The results for 2014 are still available of course and you can see these in the right hand sidebar of the Events Page. There will probably be...
Le Jog 2014 at Forrestburn
Monday 8 December saw the 20th edition of the Land’s End to John O’Groats Classic Reliability Trial & Tour, the toughest event of its kind in Europe and possibly the world, visit Forrestburn. Known to everyone as Le Jog, this event continues to attract crews from...
Production Car Trial Photos
We've finally got some good images of the Production Car Trial held at Forrestburn on 2 November 2014 - thanks to David Baxter. It's another insight into the obscure world of the Trial. I don't understand it either so don't worry too much - just enjoy the great...
Motorsport equipment going spare?
The following plea comes from Helen Elstrop who some of you might know from her days hillclimbing her Triumph Spitfire at Forrestburn. She has been carrying out training on behalf of the MSA in Palestine, Morocco, Oman, Jordan, Burundi, Jamaica and Indonesia. Her...
Production Car Trial – 2 November 2014
The last event of the season saw some fairly strange happenings in the paddock as you can see. We don't have any commentary on the event apart from these words from Club Chairman Gordon McRobbie. No galleries either - ach it's the winter now. "Weather wise it started...
Thoroughbreds at Forrestburn
After the June and August hill climb events we posted galleries from John Crae of Racing Cars, then Modified Cars then Road Classes at Forrestburn. This time as promised, we are looking at the Thoroughbred Classes taken during the double header Speed Hill Climb events...
Production Car Trial – 5 October 2014
We don't have a write up of this event at the moment but we have some images taken by David Baxter, George Dow and Trish McDonald. Thanks to them for this little insight into the madcap world of Production Car Trials. You can find the results here - that's right, I...
Forrestburn – Scottish Hillclimb Championship 2014 Round 9
This is a video of the Guyson Scottish Hillclimb Championship 2014 Round 9 held at Forrestburn on 16-17 August 2014. Round 9 was part of a double header weekend, with Sunday's round part of the MJ Engineering Lowlands Scottish Speed Championship. Also in attendance...
MSCC members at Bo’ness Revival Hill Climb
Photographer John Crae was at the Bo'ness Hill Climb Revival meeting on the weekend of 6-7 September and noticed that there was a great turnout of MSCC members competing on the hill. He has very kindly put together a grand collection of images of MSCC's presence over...
End of Season Trackday
On a glorious afternoon, the end of season track day on 21/09/14 attracted the usual enthusiastic entrants plus some new faces and some different cars. In a new twist (and many turns), a non-competitive auto test was available for anyone wanting to try something...
Road Classes at Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb
After the June and August hill climb events we posted galleries from John Crae of Racing Cars and then Modified Cars at Forrestburn. This time we are looking at the Road Classes at the 16 and 17 August 2014 event. All taken by John Crae, hope you like them and thanks...
Knockhill Tracknight Gallery
Fab news - thanks to David Baxter, we have some images of a tracknight at last. They are great too, reflecting an enjoyable and successful evening for the club and the entrants who made this a great success. Thanks David!
Modified Classes at Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb
After the June hill climb events we posted a gallery from John Crae of Racing Cars at Forrestburn. This time we are looking at the Modified Classes that made the 16 and 17 August 2014 event so interesting, all taken by John Crae. Hope you like them and thanks again...
Forrestburn Images
Here's a new gallery of images, this time from David Baxter, from the double-header Hill Climb events last weekend. We have more to come and we'll try to get these up during the week. Meanwhile enjoy these great photographs.
Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb – Sunday 17 August 2014
Brrrrrrrr.....that was cold! Forrestburn continued to confound traditional ideas of summer with a seriously chilly day and a positively arctic wind. The paddock was bad enough but for the marshals in their exposed positions round the track it was grim though the sun...
Forrestburn – Saturday 16 August 2014
The results of the Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb event held on 16 August 2014 are now available here. This was a thoroughly dismal day for competitors with horizontal drizzle and high winds coupled with a late start due to more technical issues and other snafus....
Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb: 16-17 August 2014 Update
The Entry List for the August 2014 double-header is now available to download together with the Final Instructions for the event. If you entered, please check that: a) you are on the list b) that your details are correct c) that you are happy with the class you are in...
Forrestburn Track Night – August 2014
Here's a post from Malcolm Malky McDonald describing his first trip to Forrestburn - thanks Malky! Our first ever visit to Forrestburn started earlier than we’d anticipated when we left Kintyre, in Argyll, just after 1pm. We had to take a not-so-quick detour via...
Coulter Grass Autotest
Thanks to Archie Bell for this great write up of the day and to Trish McDonald for the pics and to John Miller for the gallery shots at the foot of the page. Sunday 20th July dawned quickly, especially for me as I'd got the dates mixed up and thought the Coulter...
Racing Cars at Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb
Here's a little treat courtesy of photographer John Crae who has generously shared a huge pile of images from the June 2014 Hill Climb event. We are going to divide these up loosely into categories so to start with today we are focusing on the single seaters and...
Knockhill Track Nights 2014
Monklands Sporting Car Club is delighted to announce two track nights at Knockhill for 2014. The first is just weeks away on Monday 28 July, followed by Wednesday 27 August 2014. As usual, all nights are open pit lane and run from 6pm till 8pm. Sign on is open from...
Coulter Autotest
The entry form for the annual autotest at Coulter (nr Biggar) on 20 July is now available on the events page. For those of you who haven’t entered before this is an event held on grass which is suitable for all cars (standard road and competition). Sometimes having a...
Forrestburn Photographs
Thanks to the efforts and generosity of photographer David Baxter by the trackside and Shonah Gibbon and of course me in the paddock, we have a lot of brilliant shots of the two days of the event. On the track by David Baxter: In the paddock by...
Forrestburn Results: June 2014
The results of the double header hill climb events from Saturday and Sunday 28-29 June are available on the events page. This was a difficult and long weekend for competitors and organisers alike and MSCC are grateful for the goodwill and patience shown by everyone...
Sunday Work Party
A message from Donald McDonald: Sunday's work party to prepare the hill for next weekend's hill climb was composed of the committee, a few regulars and, (whisper it) child labour! The work carried out included painting of the inside of the portacabin, strimming the...
Forrestburn Speed Hill Climb: 28/29 June 2014 – Update
The Entry List for the June 2014 double-header is now available to download together with the Final Instructions for the event. If you entered, please check that: a) you are on the list b) that your details are correct c) that you are happy with the class you are in...
Track Night – 12 June 2014
12 June saw another one of our ever popular track nights. This time we had 22 cars and 4 new members who all seemed to have a good evening. The selection of cars gets better every month, this time we had a guided missile otherwise known as a Noble M12 and the...
Track Night – 21 May 2015
Before I tell you about the fun we had on Wednesday at Forrestburn I must apologise for the slip-up regarding the reminder e-mail that everyone receives prior to a track night. My lap top for some reason will not sent to the members’ addresses and had Derek House not...
The 2014 Hill Climb Season starts here
The 2014 Hill Climb Season is with us and we have been gearing up for our events this year, hopefully without acts of vandalism. The Supplementary Regulations and Entry Form are now available for the Forrestburn events. These will consist of two double-headers on...
Season Warm Up
By Shonah Gibbon Sunday 13th April saw the Season Warm Up taking place at Forrestburn in less than spring-like conditions but we didn't care, we were out to play. A few helmets had been dusted off after the winter break and all those modifications that had been...
The Flying Scotsman Rally
by Shonah Gibbon Over the years I have attended Forrestburn as a spectator, marshall, competitor, in fact you name any type of event and we have been there. Sunday 6th of April saw us there to marshall for the Flying Scotsman Rally and I thought that I had died and...
A Trial of Attrition
Clearly, MSCC members were suffering from "cabin fever" as there was a record turnout of competitors and marshals for the first trial of the season on Sunday March Several new faces and some new competing cars took to the hills in an effort to find some traction on...
MSCC Championship and first events of 2014
Hurrah! The 2014 Season opens on 2 March so we are just over three weeks away from this first event - a Production Car Trial (PCT) at Forrestburn, with the second PCT event at the same venue on 30 March 2014. You should download the Supplementary Regulations and Entry...
Welcome to MSCC 2014
Hello everyone - best wishes for 2014! All the very best to our members, those who have competed in our various events and to those who are thinking of joining us this year. We start the year with the news that you can now become a member of Monklands Sporting Car...