Hopes high of Dumfries and Galloway winner of RSAC Scottish Rally

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There’s every chance of a home winner on this weekend’s RSAC Scottish Rally.Dumfries driver David Bogie comes into the Lockerbie and Moffat-based event on top form, having won the last three rounds on the KNC Groundworks Scottish Rally Championship to lead the standings.And he has also won the Scottish a record seven times, making him and Irish co-driver John Rowan the favourites.But they’ll be out in a new Ford Fiesta Rally2, Bogie’s previous wins this season having come in a WRC-spec Mini.Competition for the win will include Castle Douglas’ Jock Armstrong.

He has struggled in his Subaru Impreza this year and was forced to miss the previous round in Argyll, which regular co-driver Cammy Fair won with Bogie.But he won the SRC section of the Scottish in 2017 and was second last year.Other contenders for the overall win include the Mitsubishi Evo 9 of Michael Binnie and Claire Mole and several Fords, particularly those of Freddie Milne and Patrick Walsh, David Henderson and Chris Lees and Bruce McCombie and Michael CouttsDumfries Mark McCulloch has an upgraded engine in his Proton Satria, which will be co-driven by Michael Hendry.

Their pace on recent rallies has been very encouraging.The Albyn Garage Challengers class includes the Evo of Angus Lawrie of Castle Douglas and Paul Gribben of Annan, who will be up against ALM team mate Willie Paterson and championship sponsor Kevin Crawford and Andrew Stevenson.Dumfries pair Peter Stewart and Harry Marchbank top the Autoshop two-wheel drive entries in their Peugot 208 R4, with the historic ford Escorts of Stuart Eggleston and Steve Bannister right behind.