Revolution August 2025 Issue #77 | Page 20

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LATEST NEWS ecoRally Scotland celebrates successful international debut

The weekend of the 26th and 27th July saw a new kind of motorsport electrify both Tayside, Scotland, and the ExCel at London’ s Royal Docks, as Motorsport UK’ s Electric Weekend got well underway. With 22 teams at Formula E, and 21 teams, and eight different nationalities, competing in Scotland, the field was packed …
Dundee, the UK’ s only UNESCO City of Design, hosted Round Eight of the 2025 Bridgestone FIA ecoRally Cup, the first Scottish-based FIA event for 14 years.
Dundee’ s’ sustainable innovation credentials, and the City Council’ s key role in delivering Scotland’ s promise of a netzero society by 2045 complimented the event. One of the UK’ s leading EV cities, Dundee has 34 per cent of vehicles running on electric, and an extensive charging hub network for electric vehicles.
Following a ceremonial start and scrutineering on a balmy Scottish Friday evening at John Clark Group, the teams started at seeded one-minute intervals from Dundee’ s Innovation Parc on Saturday morning.
A range of marques at both National and International level received their regularity route 30 minutes prior, conquering the infamous‘ Dragon’ stage and stopping halfway on the route at well-known Scottish motorsport venue, Knockhill.
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