Bogie eyeing S2000 for RallyScotlandposted in RSCOT24 | 05 | 2011
SCOTS RALLY CHAMP David Bogie heads into this weekend's Jim Clark Rally leading both the British and the Scottish Championships, but the 23-year-old from Dumfries is already looking ahead to RallyScotland in October. And Bogie is hoping to switch from his all-conquering GpN Mitsubishi to a super-fast S2000 car for the penultimate round of Intercontinental Rally Championship.
"I'm really determined to do the RallyScotland this year," Bogie, who finished fourth in the IRC event last year in his Mitsu Evo IX, explained today. "I've done it for the last two years and I have been really disappointed at the turn out for what is my favourite gravel event of the season, so of course, I'm keen to do it.
"The problem I have is I started this year doing the British and Scottish championships and decided we would carry on with whichever one we were doing best in after two rounds. We're four rounds in to both now and nothing's really changed
"I feel I've done all I can on the RallyScotland in my car and the best way to improve on fourth from last year would be to hire a car for this year's event, which is going to require extra budget. We'll look at it closer to the time."
Bogie has recent first-hand experience of just how fast the Skoda S2000 cars are. Recently he nipped over to Ireland to watch his BRC rivals Robert Barrable and Jonny Greer in their Skodas in the Carlow Rally, and event Barrable won.
"It was amazing how late you could be on the brakes in those things," Bogie smiled. "Definitely, they could be a big threat in the Jim Clark International this weekend.
"It's going to be a really exciting weekend; it always is. I've won the national event, the Reivers Rally which runs at the back of the Jim Clark, for the last two years, but winning the international is not going to be easy.
"The big unknown is the Skoda Fabia S2000, we just don't know how quick they're going to be. All I can do is my best."
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Jim McGill