19/02/2025
Education and training for children and young people is pivotal in ensuring that continues to gain traction. With our "Youth Voice Award", we wanted to recognise those who are encouraging and supporting children and young people to get stuck into motorsport, whether as a competitor, mechanic, marshal or trainee Official, or another volunteer role.
And the winner was Junior 1000 Ecosse Challenge.
The whole committee are brilliant, what a team. They work tirelessly together to promote rally driving to 14 to 17 year olds in Scotland. Roy Campbell, the chairman is a wonderful ambassador for rally and tirelessly fund raising to promote the sport and training days for young people. Rhona Dickie as coordinator keeps everybody organised and on track to be at events to promote the championship in Scotland and throughout the UK, recruiting new drivers from every walk of life from near and far, often with no former connection to rallying. And all the other members of the committee who endlessly give up their time and travel long distances to train youngsters in all aspects of the sport; training them to become rally stars of the future or simply to build confidence where it may have been lacking before, pulling in professionals from all areas of the industry and outside but related areas of motorsport to train them. They make things personal: they will go out of their way to help individuals who may be finding things difficult and pull them forward to become both proud and responsible drivers, simultaneously creating a camaraderie that lasts well beyond the years of the challenge. The Challenge was started by David “Digby” Barlow in 2012 and is being supported as enthusiastically today by the all-volunteer committee and is finding innovative strategies for reaching out to new audiences and giving opportunities to all those that they can and creating a healthy future for rally in Scotland.
📸Ron Cowan
Motorsport UK
