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Jim Hendry in his red Triumph TR3 was guided round the cones by Graeme Couser to secure second overall place for the Autoecosse Cup and first in their class. The TR as usual rose to the enthusiastic driving of Jim which had Graeme on the bump stops on a few occasions as the tail buried itself low on the handbrake turns. Stuart Bankier in his mighty Volvo Amazon with Donald Alexander were up against Jim but still managed to keep within a few seconds of the TR3 team, matching their time on one of the tests. Stuart is not frightened to heave the leviathan into a tight turn.

In the small engined class of the Autoecosse Cup, Bob and John Shearer from HCC in their Hillman Imp took the prize. Bob's technique was to keep it as smooth as possible so that the pitifully small engine kept in what power band there was!! It was enough to keep the superbly presented Renault 8 of Liz Swan and Suzanne Mitchell, recently seen on the Trans Scottish at bay, as well as Joe Norman and Mike Kirk in their Austin Mini.

Archie and Richard Simmonds in their MG Midget from Duns won The Angus Shield. Eight entries were whittled down to four finishers as mechanical problems beset some of the runners. The Simmonds set most of the fastest times on the tests, faster even than the autotest kings from Northern Ireland, putting them over 200 points clear of the second place Philip and David Barnett's burbling V8 powered Triumph TR8.
The Barnett family were out in force with Gareth and Innes sporting a Porsche 911, but the TR8 crew took top family honours by a mere 20 points by the end of the event.

The moderns competed for the Edzell Trophy and Richard Bartniczek piloted his Peugeot 106 Rallye to victory with Donald Johnstone, and was the other team to clean sheet the night navigational. They narrowly kept ahead of another Volvo, this time in the shape of a 2 litre 360 driven by Newcastle lads Graeme Jobson, and navigated by Max Hall (Mad Max). Graeme and Max did pick up the class prize for their valiant efforts.

The prize for farthest travelled had of course to go to Monsieur's Potterat and Romaglnoli from Switzerland in a Ford Ka. Without any idea of navigational rallying they managed, after a quick "teach in", to complete the evening route without being last to come in. The pair invite all of us to their winter event in January.
 

A big thanks to Highland Car Club for the evening, and aptly named "Guy Fawkes" navigational. The 45 mile run was a great finish to the first day and enjoyed by all who entered.

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