Supplementary regulations for the 2022 Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally were released on 13th July, and can be downloaded from via the following link:

Mull-Rally-2022-Regulations (pdf)

This year sees a cause for celebration – the 50th running of our annual rally event on Mull.

As such, after a few years of a largely unchanged route, this year’s itinerary includes a few special additions to mark the occasion, and other subtle changes to keep things fresh. The main features of recent years remain: “Rally Zone” spectator area at the Glengorm crossroads in Tobermory on all three legs, and the final flat out run up Glen Aros and over the Mishnish Lochs to Tobermory for the final control in Ledaig Car Park. These are supplemented by the return – for the first time since 2014 – of the popular Tobermory town stage.

In a further nod to the event’s history, “The Long One” this year becomes “The Very Long One” –
30 miles of Loch Tuath / Calgary Bay / Glen Aros, last run as a “selective” in the 1980s. The successful shakedown at Duart Castle moves to Thursday, to help spread the load for our hardworking marshals, retaining 2 sessions to accommodate more competitors.

As always, our thanks to John & Ross Marshall of Beatson’s Building Supplies for sticking by the event and giving us their continued support, to everyone on the island for letting us use their roads and to all the support facilities and marshals who ensure that the sport can take place safely. Thanks also to Argyll & Bute Council and Police Scotland for their pro-active support in
helping us to organise the event. We are also grateful for the ongoing support of Event Scotland, which recognises the global reach of the Mull Rally.

Entries will open at 19:30 on Friday 5th August.

We look forward to welcoming you all to Mull over the weekend of 13th – 16th October, and to continuing the legacy that is rallying on this special island.

The unseeded entry list has been published today and can be found here, and also from the Competitors menu.

Competitors with numbers 500+ are the reserves and they are listed in the order they will be offered a place if and when others withdraw.

Less than one hour after the Beatson’s Mull Rally opened for entries, the list was full.

In fact, it only took 53 minutes to register an unprecedented 174 entries.

So overwhelming was the demand for places on Scotland’s only closed-road rally this year, the event’s mullrally.org website crashed.

The first 140 crews to register now have five days (that’s four and a bit now – the clock started ticking on Saturday morning) to pay the entry fee into the event’s very own account in Tobermory’s Clydesdale Bank.

Beatson’s Mull Rally clerk of the course Andy Jardine said: “I’m not sure what to say. Fifty-three minutes! We do all the work, get everything ready, but then at the end of the day – a couple of minutes before entries go live on the website – you inevitably think: “I wonder if anybody’ll come…”

They did. They came in their droves.

Deputy clerk of the course Iain Campbell added: “Has Coldplay ever been a sell-out in 53 minutes? Actually, if they only had 150 tickets to sell Chris [Martin] and the gang probably have.”

“But I’m not sure even Kim Kardashian has broken her website with new material as quickly as we did! It’s amazing.”

While the list of reserves for the event is already building, Jardine pointed out there’s still a chance of a run.

He added: “We’ve seen down the years that not everybody who gets an entry when they go live actually takes it up,” he said. “There will be some entries lost to broken engines, broken wallets, marriages… If the money’s not received from all 140 entries before close of play Tuesday, then we will start going down through the reserves and asking folk to join us in their place.

“This is a fantastic way for us to start the build-up for the golden anniversary of this event. We hoped we might be able to fill the entry – it took a day to fill the last one in 2016 – but this is so much more than we expected. Even though we haven’t run since 2016, it’s nice to see people haven’t forgotten us.”

*The Coldplay data might be wide of the mark

Entries open for Beatson’s Mull Rally

• 150 – Mull’s new magic number
• Entries are go. What are you waiting for?
• 148 of the world’s finest miles on offer between October 11-13
• www.mullrally.org is where you should be right now

What does 150 mean to you?

It’s the number of squares on a Professor’s Cube (think Rubik’s Cube only more maddening…).

Or the number of Power Stars in Super Mario 64 DS.

And, don’t forget, it’s the bus route that goes from Bathgate to Harthill.

More important than all of that, it’s how many lucky, lucky folk will get to sit on the start line of Mishnish Lochs – just after seven on the evening of Friday October 11 – and drive as fast as they dare in the direction of Dervaig.

The only 150 that matters today are the first 150 people who get their name down for the Beatson’s Mull Rally.

The race to the rally starts right here.

Back for the first time since 2016, entries open for Beatson’s Mull Rally 2019 at 1930 today, tonight. Er… now! And they’re only are available from the website www.mullrally.org.

There’s no postage this time, the only road in is the superhighway – so you’d better be quick.

And this is going to be a special Beatson’s Mull Rally to enter. Not only are we back for the first time in three years, but this October we’ll remember the history made 50 Octobers ago when George Hill steered his Mini Cooper S away from the Mishnish Hotel on the road to a maiden victory on the inaugural Tour of Mull.

There’s a golden hue to Mull and its rally this year and we’ll pay special thanks to Brian Molyneux – the man whose brilliant foresight brought us to where we are today.

When, on that Molyneux family holiday in 1968, Brian thought about a rally around these roads, he couldn’t have known what the Beatson’s Mull Rally would grow into. Anybody doubting the popularity should drop the Mish’ a line and ask for a room in the second week in October…

Event Scotland support – along with title sponsor Beatson’s Building Supplies – is broadening the appeal of this beautiful Hebridean island and Scotland’s biggest motorsport event which sits astride it every autumn.

The entry fee is £730 for a 333-mile route, 148 of which are competitive across 17 stages and three legs.

The first 140 entries received – with the fee tucked away in the Clydesdale Bank on Tob’s Main Street within five days of a competitor registering the entry – are all guaranteed. The other 10 are at the behest of the organisers.

Entries close at 1600 on Friday October 11.

To view the route, click here.

Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally Media Office
Contact:
Sandra Evans
E: sandra@wordspr.com
T: +44 7887 693993

To land yourself one of 150 places to do this, choose “Entries” from the Competitors menu tonight!

The Mornish Rally Time Trial is definitely going ahead as planned on Sunday 14th October!

We know there are a few entries still in the pipeline, and so we are extending the closure until 9pm on Wednesday 10th October.

We are trying to be as accommodating as possible for those coming from the mainland, so the schedule allows for travel on the first ferry over from Oban and returning on the last ferry back for anyone who is unable to stay over.

Don’t leave it any later! Submit your entry here.