This year’s Mull Rally has been cancelled due to what organisers described as insurmountable insurance issues.
“The sport’s governing body, the Motor Sport Association (MSA), says it is of ‘considerable regret’ that insurance costs have affected the annual event,” reported The Oban Times.
According to MSA chief executive Rob Jones, the Mull Rally runs under a private Act of Parliament.
“It has emerged that the private closed road legislation raises very significant insurance challenges for Mull this year, which was first thought to render the Mull Rally uninsurable,” he said.
Jones added that the MSA has been endeavouring to find a solution with its brokers. However, for 2017 it turned out that each claim under the policy would be subject to a very significant excess payable by the organisers.
A statement from 2017 Beatson’s Mull Rally organisers said this will be the first time the three-day rally will not be run on closed public roads since the event was granted its Act of Parliament in 1990. Last year’s event generated around £1 million for the Isle of Mull.
Donald Brown, chairman of the Guardians of Mull Rally, said the organising team is trying to put on an alternative motorsport event for the same weekend.
