Scottish Autotest Championship
The 2021 Champion Gordon Clendinning (pictured above)
SAMSC Autotest Championship 2022
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Club
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Event
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Date
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750 MC
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March Autotest
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06/03/22
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Glenrothes M.S.C.
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Andy Wilson Memorial Autotest
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03/04/22
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Highland C.C.
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May Autotest
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22/05/22
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Stonehaven & D.M.C.
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June Autotest
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12/06/22
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South of Scot. C.C.
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Time Attack Autotest
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16/07/22
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East Ayrshire C.C.
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Kames Autotest
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14/08/22
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63 C.C.
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September Autotest
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25/09/22
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Classes
The Championship will consist of 6 Classes as follows -
1 Front Wheel Drive Cars
2 Rear Wheel Drive Cars
3 Mazda MX5s
4 Sports Cars and Sports Kit Cars
5 Specials
6 Hybrid or Electric Powered Cars – Must
be Standard Production Cars
Championship Co-ordinator – Bill Creevy, Norlands, Greenbrig Road, Barnyards,
Kilconquhar, Fife, KY9 1PA Tel. 07740 374458,
email bill.creevy@btinternet.com
Regs for the championship, and for each round, can be found in the Downloads section below.
Andy Wilson Memorial Autotest 2022
The aim was to make the 20th
Anniversary of this event the biggest and best so far and we pretty much
succeeded with 19 very good quality entries, 3 challenging routes for the
competitors and a record donation raised for the BHF.
There was a good selection of
cars from mini specials to the beach buggy, 8 MX5s and a triple entered
Vauxhall Astra.
The day started of very well
with the sun splitting the sky, but later in the day that all changed to
driving rain and freezing winds making driving conditions very slippery.
First casualty of the day was
James Morrison in his Mini Special with a broken driveshaft, as he did not have
a spare he had to retire, another driver to suffer transmission failure was Des
Campbell who is more often seen driving
his Peugeot 206 Rally car very rapidly.
This event was a bit of a
family affair with 4 father and son partnerships entered generating a lot of
very close battles during the day.
Jim Wilson won the front
wheel drive class driving the Mini that his father Andy had built more than 20
years ago, closely followed by Jim's son James. Martin Watterston was entered
in the GMSC Ka but a constant misfire
dropped him down the order.
The battle of the MX5s was
decided in favour of Martin Gillespie closely followed by Gary Clark, Championship
sponsor Oly McCollum finished 3rd in class.
In the PCA class Des Campbell
had been leading until Diff failure put him out.
Gordon Clendinning was in a
class of his own giving us a master class in precision driving, he makes it
look very easy but this takes a lot of talent.
After 16 tests the victory
went to Gordon Clendinning in his Beach Buggy, second place was only decided
after the very last test in favour of Martin Gillespie in the Mazda MX5, Jim
Wilson was 3rd only 5.6 seconds behind.
Despite the inclement weather
a great days motor sport was enjoyed and we raised a record donation of £735.00
for the British Heart Foundation.
