2025 AWARDS
Roger Anderson
Roger Anderson has been a stalwart of Motorsport, not only in the Machars area of South West Scotland, but throughout the country. It is not known when Roger joined Machars Car Club, but he became Secretary on 7th November 1962 and remains in post today.
In the days before‘ virtual’ meetings, Roger, who was a local Garage owner, would drive throughout Scotland after work to attend meetings of the Scottish Association of Motor Sports Clubs, returning home in the early hours for work the following day. As Secretary, and now 91 years old, he has been ever-present at committee meetings. When he was admitted to the local hospital for an extended stay several years ago, the clubs’ monthly meetings took place in the hospital as he wouldn’ t cancel. For the last few years Roger has been in a local care home and a meeting room is made available for our use every month. Traditional values are important and committee meeting minutes are still‘ handwritten’ in a proper ledger by Roger, preserving a written history of our club.
When club events take place, Roger is collected from the care home and attends to fulfil the role of Timekeeper, something he still enjoys. In his younger days, he competed in grassroots motorsport in the car club as well stage rallying as a navigator in everything from local events through to the RAC. After retiring from competition, he could still be found marshalling on stage rally and sprint events as recently as the 2023 Galloway Hills Rally.
Roger, to us, is‘ Machars Car Club’, providing guidance and encouragement to all who attend our events and I can think of nobody more deserving of recognition for the time and effort he has put into Motorsport in the United Kingdom.
Roger is a quiet man who shuns the limelight, always putting others first. Having been Scottish Rally Champion navigator twice, it could be assumed these would be in his top moments in the sport – but he glosses over them, preferring to talk about being in the top Scottish crew of the 1979 RAC Rally with Stewart Robertson and receiving the award from Prince Michael of Kent.
Revolution- December 2025
John Parker
John has been the Regional Forestry Liaison Officer for the last 40 years, where he has actively worked with the Forestry Commission in the North East to ensure that events using the forests within John’ s area were provided with the best roads the Forestry Commission had available. John developed a great working relationship with the various managers of the local offices, when they were in Bellingham and would often act as an intermediary between local clubs and the Forestry Commission when problems occurred.
Following the resignation of the ANECCC President at the 2023 AGM, John was elected at The Association’ s President, having been a Vice-President for several years. John had also been a member of The Rally Steering Group for many years until 2024, and acted as Treasurer of the Scottish Rally Championship for many years. John still sits as a member of The Scottish Rally Championship Committee,
Starting as a co-driver / navigator in road and stage rallies in the late 1960’ s, John’ s first event as an organiser was the 1978 Lindisfarne Rally, part of the Castrol / Autosport Championship. John retired from active competition in 1993 and became a member of the Motorsport Association Rallies Committee for the following 13 years. John is still active, marshalling on local forest events usually at a regroup control, and has organised shakedowns, tests and hospitality events in forests before rallies for clubman and manufacturer testing in England, Scotland, and Wales. He was also asked by the organisers of Rally Reykjavik in Iceland to be their International Rally Steward for five years in the 1990’ s
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