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Intercontinental Rally

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 to Sat, 21 Nov 2009

The rally will cover 13 special stages totalling 224 competitive kilometres, over some of the best rallying roads in Scotland. Many of the stages were previously used more than 20 years ago as part of the legendary RAC Rally: Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship. Adding to the challenge of the tricky gravel roads will be the fact that some stages will be held in the dark, possibly in uncertain weather conditions.

Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond will flag away the cars, and the first two stages of the event will be spectator superspecials at Scone Palace: the traditional home of the Kings of Scotland. On Friday 20 November the cars will complete five forest stages totalling around 100 kilometres before the finish of leg one at 18:07.

On Saturday 21 November the cars will complete six more stages, including two runs over the longest stage of the event: the 35 kilometres of Loch Ard. The rally finishes outside Stirling Castle at 16:31.