Caithness drivers in gear on awards night
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CAITHNESS Car Club drivers have picked up a number of national awards in this year’s Guyson Scottish Sprint and Hillclimb Championship.
They were presented at an awards dinner-dance held at the Atholl Palace Hotel in Pitlochry.
The championship takes place throughout Scotland from Golspie in the north to Kames in South Ayrshire so all CCC drivers are committed to long-distance travel to take part.
Results – Scottish sprint championship – Class A1 was won by Craig Morrison in his first year of competition and he was 11th overall.
Class A3 – Jim Kelly was first in class.
Class B4 – Lenny Bray won the class and was second in the modified division and sixth overall.
Bill Lambie was second in class B4, eighth overall and third in the modified division.
Class C3 was won by Jennifer Bremner who was also second in the competition car division.
Class C4 – Garry Dickson won this class, was third in the competition car division and second in the top-10 championship.
Louise Calder, in her first season, is the competition car division champion, is the ladies’ champion, was fourth in the top-10 championship and seventh overall.
Class C5 – George Coghill snr won the sprint top-10 championship.
Hillclimb – George Coghill jnr was third in the hillclimb championship, second in the competition car division and won class C5.
Sandy Coghill finished second in the hillclimb championship.
Speed championships – Sandy Coghill is Scottish speed champion for the second time.
Jennifer Bremner is ladies’ speed champion for the eighth time and sixth consecutive year. She was second overall in the Highland speed championship and is also the HSC ladies’ champion.
Meanwhile, Louise Calder and Danny Dickson were each presented with special awards for winning outright a national speed event, with Danny being the youngest ever at 16 years old and Louise winning at 19.
