Raymond Dick wants to right his Scottish Championship wrongs

Raymond has a patchy history with the event, having yet to finish one.

But once racing resumes again, he fully intends to right that wrong.

“In all the years that I have been racing I don’t think that I have ever managed to finish in a Scottish Championship, no matter how hard I have tried,” he said. “But that is high on my list of things to do.

”It is just one meeting that nothing goes right for me.

“I thought that last season I had a chance when I got into the lead only for the race to be suspended after a crash.

“On the restart I had Barry Russell clambering over my car and that was the end of my race.”

Raymond, who is a fitter at McConnachie’s in Leven doesn’t, have his saloon stock car ready for action just now.

”Once we get the go ahead to start racing it will be ready within a couple of weeks.

“The car is kept at a unit in Kirkcaldy so unfortunately I cannot go over and work on it just now or it would be ready to race as soon as we get back to normal.”

Stock car racing is in Raymond’s blood with both his mum and dad former racers themselves.

They passed down the bug and as soon as he hit his teens, Raymond was involved with ministox.

“Just before I was due to retire from the minis Alan Rae offered to swap his Formula II for our mini and its spares,” he added.

“Initially I had wanted a saloon but we didn’t have the space to do one properly. I found that formula II cars are not the easiest things to keep on top of but there isn’t as much heavy contact in them so the repairs are not quite so bad.”

“My first outing in the car was something different.

“First of all it is rear wheeled drive, the engines are much more powerful and the gear box is literally in between your legs.

”What an adrenalin rush that was. Practice wasn’t too bad with only a handful of cars on the track but when the season started it was quite daunting. I raced them for four years and had moved up to the blue grade and was getting decent results from there.”

“In the four years I raced Formula IIs I still didn’t have any luck in the Scottish Championships and it just wasn’t a lucky race for me.”

Raymond managed to notch up a win last year in front of his proud parents and plans for more success when allowed to race again.