Photo Credit: Lindsay Photo Sport Round 4 of the 2016 MSA British Rally Championship saw Britain's and some of Europe's best rally drivers and co-drivers head to Scotland and Dumfries for the RSAC Scottish Rally.
For the first time in two years, the BRC drivers contested the same event as the ARR Craib Scottish Rally Championship crews, meaning this was the second event this year the BRC crews were doing battle with other championships. After disappointing runs on the Circuit of Ireland and Pirelli Carlisle Rallies, Elfyn Evans and Craig Parry were in need of a strong result and delivered strongly in Scotland, dominating the event from start to finish to become the first repeat winner of the rejuvenated British Rally Championship. The Welsh pair won 6 of the 7 special stages aboard their Ford Fiesta R5. Second place went to Tom Cave and James Morgan, who used this event as their double pointer 'Joker' round. The Fiesta R5 crew did battle with local man David Bogie and his Hawick co-driver Kevin Rae all day, with the Skoda driver losing the second place position on the final stage of the event due to a puncture. However, worse was to come as the puncture Bogie picked up ate away at the Fabia's radiator leading to retirement after he had completed the final stage. To make matters worse, the Scotsman had elected his home event as his Joker. Fellow Skoda pilot Desi Henry completed the podium in third after his victory on the DMACK Carlisle Stages, and provided comment of the rally when referring to Elfyn Evans saying: "He's a World Championship driver, I'm just a builder." Euan Thorburn and Paul Beaton took their best result of the season in their troublesome Peugeot 208 T16 R5, finishing just ahead of the Citroen DS3 R5 of Jonny Greer and Kirsty Riddick. Just behind were the Fiesta R5's of Josh Moffett and then the ever impressive Jamie Anderson, with the SRC podium of Garry Pearson, Jock Armstrong and Mike Faulkner completing the top 10 overall. Sindre Furesseth won the Junior BRC, Jamie Jukes the National Cup, Matt Edwards BRC2, Chris Wheeler BRC3 and Tony Simpson BRC4. The next round of the season is the Nicky Grist Stages on both tarmac and gravel roads in just 2 weeks time.
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