Well what can I say, what a fantastic weekend. To see everyone with smiles on their faces and enjoying themselves makes all the work put in worthwhile. There is a few Thanks that I need to say.
First of all to Mr Baillie-Hamilton the landowner for allowing us to use his ground and for loaning us his Marquees for the event. He designed the course and he spent most of Saturday watching you all and taking pictures of you all enjoying yourselves. He never got in a car though, but his sons and his wife did. so thank you to Robert Agnew for making sure they got a run round.
To the Crags Hotel in Callander who provided the catering for the weekend, they enjoyed themselves and thought we were all mad apart from the owner Alex who done a little bit of Offroad driving a few weekends before the event when he wrote off his pick up.
To Ann McCandlish for organising the Portaloos, the usual company say's Callander is to rural and north for them to deliver, last I looked on way home Callander is in the Central Belt.
To Robert Scott, Johnny Campbell, Graham Millar, David Steven, Dave Franklin, Johnnie Drysdale, Big Eck, Alan Tunstall (Digger Owner) and Ian Stuart for all your help with the weekends of ground works running up to the event to make the event possible, we couldn't have done it without you all.
To Alan Dunn, Cougar Recovery and SMMC Ltd for giving us the cover required to make this event run as a comp Safari +.
To all the Marshalls who came out at the weekend and supported the event and let the event run, I thank you all as if we did not have your support we couldn't have such a successful event.
And last but not least the Competitiors, To see you all smiling and having fun makes all the hard work and organising well worthwhile. We had 15 entries for the weekend and 3 for the sunday entry. Hardly any stoppages and hardly any recoveries and we finished early on both days. and only 3 retirements over the full weekend. Again thank you all.
Well done to Gareth Carruthers from Northern Ireland 4WD who won the event in a diesel Bowler, David Steven and Dan Lofthouse in 2nd Place with David's New Lofthouse Freelander and Jonathan Barker taking 3rd Place after a few car troubles. Well done to you all.
As mentioned in previous post we have to fix the roads at the site on Sunday (25th August), I would truly appreciate all your help and support if you were able to assist and support me as it may mean we may get back next year. If you can help email me at coilantogle@gmail.com or contact me on 07515789100.
Thanks for a Great Weekend
Sharon Scott