Rallyscore SAMSC Scottish Autotest Championship 2023
The 2021 Champion Gordon Clendinning (pictured above)
The regulations for the 2023 Rallyscore Scottish Autotest Championship have been published and are available in the downloads section below, where regulations and results for each round will be published when available.
There will be seven rounds between March and September starting with the March Autotest run by 750MC.
Scottish Autotest Championship 2023 Events
750 M.C. March Autotest 05/03/23
Glenrothes M.S.C. Andy Wilson Memorial Autotest 09/04/23
Highland C.C. May Autotest 21/05/23
Stonehaven & D.M.C. June Autotest 11/06/23
South of Scot. C.C. Time Attack Autotest 15/07/23
East Ayrshire C.C. Kames Autotest 13/08/23
63 C.C. September Autotest 24/09/23
The Championship will consist of 6 Classes as follows -
1 Front Wheel Drive Cars
2 Rear Wheel Drive Cars
3 Mazda MX5s
4 Sports Cars and Sports Kit Cars
5 Specials
6 Hybrid or Electric Powered Cars – Must be Standard Production Cars
2023 Autotest Downloads
SAMSC Autotest Championship 2022
Final Results
Going into the last round any one of 3 drivers were in with a chance of winning the championship – Gordon Clendinning, Gary Clark or James Morrison.
The last round was hosted by East Ayrshire Car Club at Kames on 23/10/23 and attracted a good entry of 15 cars to the PCA / Autotest, unfortunately we were short of some regular competitors with Oly McCollum competing on the Solway Targa and Ronnie and Martin Gillespie attending Rally Ctalunia. It was good to see so many juniors competing in the PCA, it would be great if some of them may compete in some of next years Autotests.
On arrival the weather was cold but dry, this soon changed to either a light drizzle or a heavy downpour, this lasted most of the day, which made the tests very slippery and unpleasant driving conditions for the open top cars.
The 3 championship contenders were very close all day with Gordon Clendinning taking FTD, closely followed by James Morrison whose Mini Special was just a bit more nimble than Gary Clark's MX5. Although Gordon took FTD on the day, Gary Clark was crowned the 2022 RALLYSCORE Scottish Autotest Championship by 1 point with James finishing 3rd in the championship.
It was good that the final result was down to the last round, this shows that it has been close throughout the year. I must mention the improvement throughout the year of Gary, Oly and Martin, thanks must also go to Gordon for mentoring the drivers and also assisting with the design of the test layouts.
I am planning to have a meeting with some of the drivers/ organizers prior to next years championship to discuss ways how we can go forward and encourage more drivers into the sport of Autotesting.
The 2022 Final results are -
1st Overall and 1st in Class – Gary Clark
2nd Overall and 1st in Class – Gordon Clendinning
3rd Overall and 1st in Class – James Morrison
Most Improved Driver – Martin Gillespie
Bill Creevy
Championship Coordinator
2022 Calendar
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Club
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Event
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Date
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750 MC
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March Autotest
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06/03/22
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Glenrothes M.S.C.
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Andy Wilson Memorial Autotest
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03/04/22
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Highland C.C.
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May Autotest
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22/05/22
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Stonehaven & D.M.C.
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June Autotest
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12/06/22
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South of Scot. C.C.
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Time Attack Autotest
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16/07/22
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East Ayrshire C.C.
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Kames Autotest
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14/08/22
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63 C.C.
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September Autotest
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25/09/22
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Classes
The Championship will consist of 6 Classes as follows -
1 Front Wheel Drive Cars
2 Rear Wheel Drive Cars
3 Mazda MX5s
4 Sports Cars and Sports Kit Cars
5 Specials
6 Hybrid or Electric Powered Cars – Must
be Standard Production Cars
Championship Co-ordinator – Bill Creevy, Norlands, Greenbrig Road, Barnyards,
Kilconquhar, Fife, KY9 1PA Tel. 07740 374458,
email bill.creevy@btinternet.com
Regs for the championship, and for each round, can be found in the Downloads section below.
Andy Wilson Memorial Autotest 2022
The aim was to make the 20th
Anniversary of this event the biggest and best so far and we pretty much
succeeded with 19 very good quality entries, 3 challenging routes for the
competitors and a record donation raised for the BHF.
There was a good selection of
cars from mini specials to the beach buggy, 8 MX5s and a triple entered
Vauxhall Astra.
The day started of very well
with the sun splitting the sky, but later in the day that all changed to
driving rain and freezing winds making driving conditions very slippery.
First casualty of the day was
James Morrison in his Mini Special with a broken driveshaft, as he did not have
a spare he had to retire, another driver to suffer transmission failure was Des
Campbell who is more often seen driving
his Peugeot 206 Rally car very rapidly.
This event was a bit of a
family affair with 4 father and son partnerships entered generating a lot of
very close battles during the day.
Jim Wilson won the front
wheel drive class driving the Mini that his father Andy had built more than 20
years ago, closely followed by Jim's son James. Martin Watterston was entered
in the GMSC Ka but a constant misfire
dropped him down the order.
The battle of the MX5s was
decided in favour of Martin Gillespie closely followed by Gary Clark, Championship
sponsor Oly McCollum finished 3rd in class.
In the PCA class Des Campbell
had been leading until Diff failure put him out.
Gordon Clendinning was in a
class of his own giving us a master class in precision driving, he makes it
look very easy but this takes a lot of talent.
After 16 tests the victory
went to Gordon Clendinning in his Beach Buggy, second place was only decided
after the very last test in favour of Martin Gillespie in the Mazda MX5, Jim
Wilson was 3rd only 5.6 seconds behind.
Despite the inclement weather
a great days motor sport was enjoyed and we raised a record donation of £735.00
for the British Heart Foundation.
