Uncertainty over sport’s major race track events

Ross Watters will put his car back into the garage for the time-being.

2020 was the start to the 40th year of GMP in Scotland and the 60th anniversary of BriSCA.

The coronavirus has really put a spoke in the celebrations.

There are certainly repercussions for some of the major events and we may be in danger of having the major championships scheduled for this year cancelled if qualifying rounds can’t be staged.

There are a few meetings in danger of being lost to the Scottish fans and one is the biannual visit of the BriSCA Formula I cars on June 25, which was the last meeting prior to the holiday break.

The Stock Rod European Championship at the Knockhill Trioval is in danger of being lost.

The first to go is the Unlimited Banger World Cup and it had the makings of being the best for a while with around 25 drivers already booked in to race.

If the drivers don’t get restarted at the beginning of July then the UK Speedweekend down at Skegness is under threat.

This meeting brings formula IIs, saloons and formula I drivers together for an exciting weekend’s racing.

The Knockhill Trioval was back on the stock car calendar for the first time in seven years but is in real danger of not happening.

The formula II drivers could see up to ten World Championship qualifying rounds wiped out and that includes the Scottish weekend when there were three World Championship rounds to be stages in three days at Knockhill, Cowdenbeath and than at Crimond.

Should the racing restart in July then it could well be difficult to reschedule those rounds before the semi-finals come around on August 8.

The Scottish Championship is due to be run on May 2.