Edinburgh, Friday 13 May

Third Classic Malts Scottish Reliability Trail- a Journey to Talisker

First car crossed the finishing line at 15.45pm Friday 12 May

TRIPLE GOLD FOR JAYNE SIDESCREEN TRs WIPE THE BOARD in MARQUE TEAM CONTEST The Results for this year's Classic Malts Scottish Reliability Trial were declared final at 00.03 on Saturday 13 May, marking the end of a great week's motor sport for the 116 crews who set out on the event from Edinburgh Castle just a week ago.

Car 1, Ken Burnett's 1928 Alvis 12/50 SD, speeds towards the Edinburgh finish

Gold Medallists for Classic Malts Reliability Trail 2000

Driver / Navigator	Car	Penalties	Class / Position
Wignall / Bent	Sunbeam Tiger	101	E8 / 1
Newman / Newsham	Ford Lotus Cortina	105	E1/ 1
Blanckley / Francis	Lotus Elan	118	F2 / 1
Ingram / Gault	Jaguar 3.8 Mk 2	366	E3 / 1
Whitaker / Currie	Wolseley Hornet Special	508	B2 / 1

In an exciting finale, Jayne Wignall, navigated this year by Fred Bent, claimed her "Hat-trick" of Gold Medals, having competed - and won gold - on each of the three Classic Malts Reliability Trials that have been run. The crew just managed to outdrive Newman / Newsham on the last day, finishing on four fewer total penalties, despite a five penalty deficit at the end of Day 5. Colin Francis with John Blankley secured a Gold Medal, too, despite having apparently missed his chance on Day 1, when interim results showed him to have dropped to Silver. But Colin spotted a timesheet error, and was quickly upgraded back to Gold again. He is trying hard to stop himself querying this satisfying final result! Thursday morning's positions in the competition for the Marque Team Prize, to be awarded with the Talisker Trophy, presented by Classic Malts, were overturned with the sudden enforced retirement from the event of Stan Williams' 1937 Alvis 4.3 Charlesworth Saloon. The crew and those from other passing cars were unable with hand-held fire extinguishers to prevent the total loss of the vehicle, and the fire took hold so swiftly that there was no time to rescue personal possessions, though both crew members were able to escape without injury. As navigator, Tony Davies ruefully commented the following morning, "Not the kind of thing you'd want to go through every day". This left the way open for two teams of sidescreen TRs. The main contenders for the Marque Team Prize were the Triumph Team of Jan van Geen/ Julienne Straatman (TR3A); Malcolm McKay / Tony Caldwell (TR2); and David Redwood / Mrs Annie Redwood (TR3A). They and a second team of TRs made a splendid approach to the event finish, coming to the line in two rows, three abreast across the hotel car park. However, their arrival was not without the expense of much midnight oil being burned. Malcolm McKay had steering problems by the end of Thursday, with a piece of scaffolding pole being pressed into use to help the car survive to the finish. David Redwood's TR 3A, meanwhile, had completed the final hundred miles of Thursday's leg with no oil pressure, and suspected oil pump failure. At 3.00am a new pump finally arrived in Oban, just in time to be fitted to the car. The engine started successfully, but had an ominous knocking for the final day, though their progress was good enough to allow the team to arrive intact at Edinburgh within schedule for Friday afternoon's finish, and to claim the coveted award.  The 1963 Maserati Vignale Spyder belonging to Peter and Gay Cumming won this year's Concours Award. The ex-works Healey of Lady Pauline Harris, navigated by Ann Locks, arrives at the finish to claim the Ladies' Award by a good margin The competitor's eye view: on-event reports from Malcolm McKay

David Ingram/Norman Gault arrive at the finish line to claim their Classic Malts Gold Medal Mike Newman and Alec Newsham battled it out with Jayne Wignall for six days for the lowest overall penalty score on their way to their Gold Medal, but Jayne pulled ahead by just four points at the finish line. Jayne Wignall, navigated by Fred Bent, in the Subeam Tiger on her way to a brilliant third Gold Medal on this year's Classic Malts. Seen here passing Ruthven Barracks. The Marque Award winners, the "Sidescreeners" cross the finish line, followed by "The Triumphants", in close formation

Marque Team Award - The Talisker Trophy - final result

"SIDESCREENERS"	Jan van Geen / Julienne Straatman Malcolm McKay / Tony Caldwell David Redwood / Annie Redwood	Triumph TR3A Triumph TR2 Triumph TR3A	198 493 1261
"THE TRIUMPHANTS"	Toby Strauss / David Stone Niki Redwood / Jason Lord Nigel Redwood / Gillian Chapman	Triumph TR3A Triumph TR2 Triumph TR3A	858 1273 284
"WHISKEY& SCHNAPPS"	Lady Pauline Harris / Ann Locks Neil Beresford / Edwin Hunter Michael Solf / Ingeberg Solf	Austin Healey 3000 Austin Healey 3000 Mk III Austin Healey 3000 Mk II	1204 677 2067

Ladies' Award:	Lady Pauline Harris / Ann Locks		1204
Beginners' Award:	Harrison / Harrison		610

Full award list and Full detailed Results in Acrobat PDF format (approx 400kb)

Last modified 16 May 2000