FORMER British Touring Automobile Champion Gordon Shedden had a roller-coaster trip final weekend.
The Dalgety Bay racer suffered a first-lap collision that broke his entrance suspension, had a storming drive from final to twelfth in race two, then acquired pole within the reverse grid and disappeared off in entrance for a victory.
After the encounters at Croft Circuit in Yorkshire, he stated: “There have been some mega strikes, the Honda Civic Sort R has felt actually good all weekend.
“To complete on high of the field, with subsequent outing being at residence at Knockhill, you couldn’t script it any higher. I believe the motion there on the finish of July shall be completely unbelievable.”
Fellow Fifer Rory Butcher stored his championship curiosity alive with two seventh locations and a 3rd in his Toyota Corolla.
He stated: “That was a unbelievable end result. That was our objective – to get on the rostrum. We had an excellent haul of level scores and we're actually happy with the consistency we have now acquired.”
Aiden Moffat, from Dalkeith, was aiming to construct on a terrific end result at Oulton Park and he confirmed good tempo at Croft as he completed eighth within the first to races. However the Infiniti Q50 driver was frustratingly pressured to retire from race three as a result of harm.
Group-mate Dexter Patterson, from Glasgow, had a day of regular progress. He completed twentieth, 18th and sixteenth, with some spectacular overtaking strikes.
Rookie Oliver Stewart, from Beauly, loved his F4 outing, with total ninth, 14th and fourth-place finishes.
Elsewhere, Motherwell’s Ian Loggie and Callum Macleod stormed to a British GT victory at Snetterton, regardless of a balance-of-power change handed to all of the Mercedes-AMG entrants.
The win – and sixth place in race two – meant he left Norfolk main the title cost. He stated: “In case you are on the entrance then spherical right here you must have the ability to preserve it on the entrance and that's precisely what we did.”
Former champion Jonny Adam, from Kirkcaldy, was on a visitor drive with Flick Haigh they usually have been heading in the right direction for a race win till Adam suffered a sluggish puncture of their Mercedes they usually needed to retire.
They bounced again to complete third in race two. Adam stated: “We now have had nice tempo and it's good to get a trophy on the finish of the weekend.”
Inverness ace Lewis Williamson and James Cottingham got here residence third and fifth within the GT3 ProAm class within the sister 2 Seas Merc.
In the meantime defending champ Sandy Mitchell, from Forfar, and Adam Balon have been sixth and second within the Barwell Lamborghini Huracan.
Mitchell stated: “To get two actually strong races underneath our belts is great. Now we head to Spa eyeing one other win within the two-hour race.”
Aberdeen father-and-son duo Stewart and Lewis Proctor have been sixth and fifth within the Silver/Am class within the Greystone GT McLaren whereas Ross Wylie, from Dumfriesshire, and Matt Graham completed fifth twice over of their GT4 class within the Valluga Racing Porsche.
Chloe Grant, from Perth, had her greatest weekend to this point within the GB4 Championship at Snetterton. She was sixth twice and likewise got here in seventh. Her Graham Brunton Racing team-mate Logan Hannah, from East Kilbride, was eighth twice and seventh.
Stevan McAleer, from Glasgow, grabbed his first IMSA Sports activities Automobile Championship GTD pole place at Watkins Glen, New York. However contact with a prototype and unhealthy climate within the race meant he Group Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes-AMG fellow drivers Mike Skeen and Dirk Mueller have been disqualified.
Within the LMP2 class, Ryan Dalziel, from Airdrie, joined Dwight Merriman and Kyle Tilley within the Period Motorsports automotive – beginning and ending seventh.
The Pilot Problem noticed McAleer again with GT America sequence accomplice Eric Filgueiras they usually put the Rennsport One Cayman GT4 RS on pole. However they needed to accept second place within the race.
Robin Liddell, from Edinburgh, and Frank DePew began twentieth within the Insurgent Rock Racing Chevrolet Camaro and suffered a puncture early within the race. Nevertheless, they fought their method via the sector to complete fourth.
Again at residence, on closed public roads, five-time champion David Bogie took his third win of the 2022 Scottish Rally Championship – the victory being each his and co-driver Cammy Honest’s first on the Argyll Rally.
The pair constructed a powerful lead over Friday evening and Saturday morning and stored every little thing secure within the remaining loop to carry residence the MINI WRC first total and within the SRC.
On their first occasion in a Rally 2 Fiesta, David Henderson and Chris Lees had each SRC and Protyre Championship factors at stake.
Mendacity third within the SRC in a single day, they stepped the tempo up on Saturday, grabbing second total, second for SRC factors and the Protyre win.
Michael Binnie and Claire Mole, had discovered the Friday evening phases to be fairly difficult on board their Mitsubishi Evo.
They spent Saturday morning in a battle for fourth earlier than completely charging over the ultimate loop to 3rd total and within the SRC – sustaining their unbelievable run of podium finishes in 2022.
There have been additionally class wins for Angus Lawrie and Paul Gribben, Peter Stewart and Harry Marchbank, Gordon Murray and Steven Brown, Junior champ Johnie Mackay and co-driver Michael Cruickshank, Orrin McDonnell and Eoghan Anderson, in addition to reigning women champ Ashleigh Morris.
David Bogie’s victory stretches his lead within the championship standings to 4 factors over Michael Binnie, whereas co-driver Claire Mole sees her lead over Cammy Honest minimize to 2 factors.
The SRC returns to the gravel roads of Dumfries and Galloway for spherical 5, the RSAC Scottish Rally on July 23.
This weekend, Scotland’s Dean Macdonald shall be racing a Storage 59 McLaren 720S within the GT World Problem Europe Dash Cup at Misano in Italy.
And the European Le Mans Collection and Le Mans Cup additionally head to Italy, with Jonny Adam and Colin Noble flying the flag for Scotland within the respective competitions at Monza.