BLACK PROVES A SCOTTISH LEGEND
Stewart Black clinched his second-consecutive Scottish Legends title with a double podium at last weekend’s season finale at Knockhill.
Ryan McLeish came out on top in the first race, played out on a drying track after morning rain, beating Black and an ailing Ben Mason, who suffered an engine issue in the closing stages. Light rain began to fall ahead of the second race, but that failed to stop a dominant Black who took a lights-to-flag victory ahead of McLeish with Mason fourth.
With the title already secured, Black in race three finished a somewhat sedate eighth, two places behind Mason as McLeish won a fully wet affair.
Minimax’s Michael Weddell stayed out of trouble to claim back-to-back Scottish Mini Cooper Cup titles with a trio of podiums.
Jamie Blake took overall victory in the first two races in his R53, with Neil Hose leading the Cooper class before Daniel Patterson took his first victory in the final Cooper-only reversed encounter. Weddell’s pair of seconds and a third were more than enough to finish ahead of main rival Chad Little.
Esports graduate Sam Corson was crowned Scottish C1 Cup champion after on-the-road race one winner James Hitchen was disqualified for a technical infringement.
Corson outscored 2019 champion Finlay Brunton in the opener and was crowned after the only remaining contender Hitchen was chucked out. Outgoing champion Ross
Dunn won the final race ahead of Corson.
Liam McGill beat Steven Gray in a winner-takes-all pair of races to take the Fiesta ST Cup title. The two drivers have been the dominant forces all season, with McGill edging his fierce rival out in both wet and dry encounters, despite suffering a suspension failure in qualifying.
In the Scottish Classics, John Kinmond was denied a double victory after a front anti-roll bar failure forced him out of race two, leaving Kenneth Brown to take the win in his TVR Griffith, with the already crowned Charlie Cope finishing second.