Ashleigh Morris

What an incredible weekend at the Dunoon Presents Argyll Rally for round four of the Scottish Rally Championship! Such a tough event so I’m over the moon we made it to the end!

We started on Friday evening in dark, wet conditions and unfortunately stage 4 was cancelled for us with a car off on the stage but fortunately everyone was ok.

Conditions improved for Saturday and we found a good rhythm. I was really pleased with the progression since this event last year which was my first closed road event.

Unfortunately I did throw poor JIG into a ditch on stage 10 and it’s a little worse for wear with a bent bottom arm (again!) but many thanks to the many spectators who helped recover us. I thought it was the end of our rally but they helped get us back on the road, we got a stage max and were able to continue and finish the rally.

Thanks to Martin for doing a great job co-driving and to FJ-RS Engineering for running the car – JIG was faultless and even drove well after our ditch incident!

I found this event incredibly tough last year, and although this year was still tough I enjoyed it a lot more and really felt like I was building my confidence and pace on closed roads.

Thanks to my sponsors Carbon Positive Motorsport, Morris Lubricants and Demon Tweeks Motorsport for their ongoing support.

My next event is this weekend! I’m very excited to be competing in the McRae Rally Challenge at Knockhill Racing Circuit with Marc Fowler returning to the co-driver’s seat. You can keep up to date with my progress on my social channels.