2024 Scottish Classic Sports and Saloons

[Malcolm Smith]

Keiron Baillie was victorious in the first race at Anglesey, over ten seconds ahead of Andy Graham.
Colin Calder and Adam Kinmond were third and fourth respectively, followed by Ewan Anderson,
Craig Houston and Jimmy Crow.
Eighth was highest placed Class A driver, Iain Mitchell, from John Kinmond, Paul Green and Michael Longstaffe.
Final three to complete the race were Sonny Gray, Richard Cooper and Ian Morton.

Graham won race two, just ahead of Calder, following several exchanges of the lead.
Baillie was two seconds adrift in third place. Adam Kinmond came fourth;
Houston, Mitchell and Crow taking positions five to seven.
Next were John Kinmond, Green, Longstaffe, Gray, Morton and Cooper.

Sponsor, Edinburgh Watch Company, Driver of the Day was Andy Graham.

Knockhill, on 8th September, is the venue for the next two rounds of the championship.

[Malcolm Smith]

There are fifteen entries for Sunday’s event. First time this season for Mario Ferrari, Ferrari 308 and Shonny Paterson, Triumph TR7V8.
Entry List:

# Driver Car Class
1 Alastair Baptie MGBV8 E
5 Michael Longstaffe MGB Midget A
7 Iain Mitchell Vauxhall Nova A
20 Alasdair Coates MGBV8 E
21 Jimmy Crow Scimitar GT Coupe G
27 Mario Ferrari Ferrari 308 D
58 John Marshall Ford Mustang E
62 Andrew Kinmond TVR Vixen B
63 John Kinmond Mini A
71 Paul Bowers Fiat128 Coupe A
77 Richard Merrell Alfa Romeo Giulia I
78 Andrew Graham Triumph TR7V8 E
91 Craig Houston Lotus Eclat/Excel B
88 Shonny Paterson Triumph TR7V8 E
143 Neil McKay Mini I

[Malcolm Smith]

Alastair Baptie headed Andy Graham by a tenth of a second in race one at Knockhill last Sunday, their positions reversed in the second.

Start of proceedings was delayed by almost two hours due to fog, which thankfully lifted, as there had been a risk of the event being cancelled.

Third in race one was fastest qualifier, Alasdair Coates, in his recently acquired MGBV8. His second race came to a premature end with clutch difficulties.
Craig Houston took fifth in race one and third in race two.
First time out in the new build Brayon Engineering Ford Mustang was John Marshall, who finished fourth in both races.

In the first, Jimmy Crow was sixth, Richard Merrell seventh and Iain Mitchell eighth.
Paul Bowers, Michael Longstaffe and Neil McKay were the final drivers to complete the race.
Crow retired from race two, and from Merrell onwards drivers finished in the same order, one place further up from race one.

The driver of the day was Richard Merrell, who received his award from sponsor Jonathan Gilbert of Edinburgh Watch Company.

Mitchell leads the overall championship by twenty-three points from Graham,
with maximum fifty points available at the final meeting of the season, Knockhill on 6th October.

[Malcolm Smith]

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