The Rally2Raise team of Aberdeen’s Rachel Clark and Heysham’s Katherine
Begg are all set for their first event of the 2013 rally season next weekend.
The pairing will contest the Granite City rally, a round of the Scottish Rally
Championship (SRC), in their E.Watson and Son-backed Nissan Micra.
Joining E.Watson and Son, the Stonehaven-based groundwork contracting company, in supporting the Rally2Raise car are Andrew Wood Motorsport, Pirelli, McPherson Document Solutions, Charles Derby Ecosse and Halo Lettings.
Andrew Wood Motorsport supply a wide range of products and services from their Melrose base. In a joint deal with Pirelli they will be supplying tyres for the Micra this season. McPherson’s are a company from Paisley who specialise in document management and scanning. Charles Derby Ecosse are a new firm of financial advisers covering Scotland and the North of England. Their National Director Don Murray is a keen rally fan and occasional competitor. He was the Competitor Rep for the SRC for two seasons. Halo Lettings, a Lancaster-based residential lettings and property management agency, won an innovative online auction to have their logo painted on the girls’ faces for the rally.
Andrew Wood Motorsport supply a wide range of products and services from their Melrose base. In a joint deal with Pirelli they will be supplying tyres for the Micra this season. McPherson’s are a company from Paisley who specialise in document management and scanning. Charles Derby Ecosse are a new firm of financial advisers covering Scotland and the North of England. Their National Director Don Murray is a keen rally fan and occasional competitor. He was the Competitor Rep for the SRC for two seasons. Halo Lettings, a Lancaster-based residential lettings and property management agency, won an innovative online auction to have their logo painted on the girls’ faces for the rally.
“We’re incredibly lucky to have received such wonderful support and I’d
like to thank everyone who has helped us,” said Clark. “Without the support we
would not be able to either compete in the rally or continue with Rally2Raise.”
“We’ll be aiming to get a finish on the Granite, we’ll be taking it
steady and there’ll be no heroics, we just want to complete the stages, get our
season off to a good start and raise awareness of our project and the two
causes we are supporting this year, the Nystagmus Network and Bottle Stop.”
The team’s charity funds and awareness
raising has attracted the interest of the media with both the local press and
STV planning on covering the girls’ Granite City adventures. They are sure to
be noticed as they will both have their hair dyed bright red for the rally!
"We floated the idea of dying our
hair on our Facebook page and Twitter and everyone thought it was a great plan.
We've both been blonde for a long time so what better way of showing our
commitment to Rally2Raise than by dying our hair the same colour as the
Rally2Raise logo! We've had some good donations as a result of it so it will be
very worthwhile. Hopefully it'll encourage spectators to come and have a chat
about what we are doing also."
The rally will start from Duthie Park in Aberdeen with the crews facing five stages to the south of the city. The distinctive blue and yellow Rally2Raise Micra will start at car 111.
Please visit www.rally2raise.co.uk or www.facebook.com/rally2raise for more information on the project.
Donations can be made via www.justgiving.com/rally2raise.
