Rallying: Faulkner and Foy keep title campaign firmly on track

Published on Sunday 28 June 2009 23:14

MIKE Faulkner and Peter Foy kept their Scottish championship campaign well on track with outright victory in a dramatic RSAC Scottish Rally in Dumfries – the fifth round of the Hankook series.

It was their second championship triumph of the season – following a maiden SRC win on the Granite City in April – and more than made up for the disappointment of a non-finish on last month's Jim Clark Reivers.

Faulkner powered his Mitsubishi Evo 6 through the classic south-west of Scotland stages to finish 13 seconds ahead of former British Junior Champion Wayne Sisson in an Evo 9, with Stephen Whitford from Ireland third overall in an Evo 6 – neither of whom were eligible for championship points.

Euan Thorburn and Campbell Roy were second home of the SRC crews, and also took GpN honours, in their Subaru Impreza.

Jock Armstrong and Kirsty Riddick of Castle Douglas secured the final SRC podium spot in their Impreza N11 and extended their championship lead.

In the drivers' standings, Armstrong is now on 131 points, with Faulkner second on 103. There is a similar margin between Riddick and Foy in the co-drivers' championship. David Bogie of Dumfries remains third in the drivers' table on 101 points, despite crashing out in his Evo 9 on the fourth stage.

Faulkner, who is based at Kirtlebridge near Lockerbie, said: "We just drove our hearts out, and it came together."