SCOTTISH motorsport followers can sit up for loads of thrills at Fife’s well-known Knockhill circuit on Sunday.
It's internet hosting the opening assembly of the Scottish Motor Racing Membership 2022 season, with a busy schedule of qualifying classes and 11 races.
The packed programme contains every little thing from single-seater Scottish and Nationwide Components Fords and MINI Coopers contests to basic sports activities automobiles and saloons, Ford Fiesta ST and Citroen C1 clashes.
There’s additionally the prospect for spectators to take pleasure in a free grid stroll through the lunch break, in order that they will rise up shut and private with a number of the racers and their machines.
Knockhill occasions director Stuart Grey mentioned: “The assorted SMRC championships present brief, action-packed races that give spectators little or no time to catch their breath. It’s an ideal household occasion.”
And searching additional forward, World Rally Championship star Elfyn Evans has confirmed he will probably be on the venue’s McRae Rally Problem – driving some basic Toyotas – on July 3.
Elfyn mentioned: “It’s a disgrace there is no such thing as a WRC spherical in Nice Britain this yr, so as an alternative I’m actually excited to attend the McRae Problem weekend which will probably be an ideal competition for all of the followers.”
And his dad, Gwyndaf, will even be there participating within the occasion in his Ford Escort Mk2.
In the meantime, Ross Wylie is ready to return to the GT4 class of the British GT Championship eight years after he claimed the title.
The Scot will share a Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS Clubsport with Valluga Concierge team-owner Benji Hetherington within the opening one-hour race on Easter Monday – April 18 – at Oulton Park, Cheshire.
The Dumfriesshire 30-year-old mentioned: “I like the British GT sequence and the GT4 class may be very aggressive this yr. Benji and I'll give it our greatest shot – it is going to be fascinating to see how we fare in what's a really uncommon automobile.”
Wylie faces a busy couple of weeks as he begins the defence of his GT Cup GTO Championship title at Donington Park, close to Derby, this weekend.
He and SB Race Engineering team-mate Paul Bailey will compete within the latter’s McLaren MP4-12C Can Am that the duo efficiently raced on the circuit final yr.
Different Scots resulting from compete embody Motherwell’s Ian Loggie in his acquainted RAM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 and Jodie Sloss, from Taynuilt, Argyll, in a Components Girl McLaren 570S GT4.
Loggie ought to be buoyed by his outcome final weekend as he and his SPS Automotive Efficiency team-mates completed thirty second and topped the Professional-Am desk in the same Merc on the GT World Problem Europe opener at Imola, Italy.
Workforce WRT Scots Finlay Hutchison and Lewis Proctor, together with Mexican Diego Menchaca, crossed the road twenty fourth total however got here eighth within the Silver class with their Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo2 after a late time penalty.
And Sandy Mitchell was pressured right into a damage-limitation train – ending fortieth – after the Gold-class Barwell Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo crew had been shunted off the observe earlier.
However there was success for Lockerbie’s Gordie Mutch and his accomplice Jimmy Broadbent at Oulton within the Praga Cup as they completed a high quality second.
On two wheels, Stirlingshire’s Tarran Mackenzie, the reigning British Superbike Champion, has suffered a setback to the defence of his title after crashing and breaking his left ankle.
It occurred throughout a pre-season take a look at together with his McAMS Yamaha staff at Silverstone in difficult climate circumstances forward of the primary spherical being held on the circuit over Easter.