In the worst possible of rainy conditions, the September SMRC meeting at Knockhill got underway with the Scottish Formula Ford 1600 Championship. Graham Carroll, Alan Kirkaldy, Stuart Thorburn and Louis Di Resta pulled away from the field initially before Thorburn was forced to retire and Di Resta fell back, leaving Carroll and Kirkaldy to have a great battle to the flag.

The second race saw Kirkaldy take the lead from Carroll with Di Resta and Robert Thomson fighting it out behind them, though a spin at the hairpin would drop Di Resta to the back of the field. Carroll grabbed the win on the last lap after after some wheelbanging with Kirkaldy at the hairpin and Thomson came home a lonely third with Elliot Mason and Louis Di Resta enjoying good comeback drives through the field to sixth and seventh.

The Scottish Legends Championship was due its first of two double header meetings at this event and the first heat started in atrocious weather, the red flag flying on the third lap after a three car incident left Michael Hogg and Murray Ford's cars damaged on the track after Clark/Carlube corner. At the restart Ben Mason emerged in the lead and held it to the end, finishing a decent distance ahead of Frank Hynds and a hard charging Carol Brown. Jason Ogg took his best ever finish with fourth ahead of Colin Atkinson.

The second heat saw Rory Bryant lead away with Ben Mason fighting his way steadily through the field from towards the back, taking second fairly quickly with Andrew Donald holding onto a great third place ahead of Brown and Gerard McCosh. Mason grabbed the lead from Bryant late on but only won by a second with McCosh and Brown fighting past Donald.

The final was held in the worst weather of the day with the pole-sitting car of Alistair Dow spinning on the pace lap and delaying the start by a lap. When the race got underway Mark Lees grabbed the lead at the hairpin with Mason flying through the field from the back, taking a couple of laps to get by Donald then fighting by Ogg, Pat Hynds and Dow in the worsening conditions to finish two seconds behind Lees who had just completed his best ever race.

The first heat of the second round started with David Thorburn in the lead, Mason very quickly working his way up to third followed by Bryant as they closed in on the leading pair of Thorburn and McCosh. After a brief struggle Mason moved up to second but could not catch Thorburn who took the victory while Tony Caig had a very impressive race, passing Bryant and McCosh for third.

The second heat began with Mason grabbing the lead and quickly extending it followed by Bryant and Lees, the leaders spreading out while a big battle got underway in the midfield. Mason tool a straightforward victory ahead of Bryant with Frank Hynds and Thorburn passing Lees late on.

The final started chaotically with Hogg leading into Seat but flying off the road at the top of the hill followed by Atkinson with Lees spinning into the gravel. Jason Ogg and Frank Hynds also sampled the agricultural route and with Lees beached the red flag flew. The restart once again saw Hogg off the road at Seat but the rest of the field made it through, Carol Brown taking the lead ahead of Mason who had stormed through from the back closely followed by Thorburn and Caig. An off at Seat saw Thorburn drop back while McCosh did the same and got stuck while Mason grabbed the lead at the hairpin, holding off a very determined assault from Brown to the end with Caig right behind. Alisdair Gauld and Jason Ogg completed the top five with Bryant, Aly Hunter (having a go in Donald's car) and Frank Hynds battled hard across the line.

The Smartycar.com Scottish Minis saw two good races, Paul Wilson taking the lead from Ken Thirlwall at the start of the first race, Ian Milton and Jordan Gronkowski swapping positions in the battle for third, closely followed by Vic Covey. With Thirlwall retaking the lead, Milton caught Wilson and went off at Clark/Carlube, dropping to fourth behind a very big battle between Wilson and Covey, Wilson holding on to second while Milton once again had to fend off Gronkowski to keep fourth.

The second race was red-flagged after a three car incident between Mark Dryden, Michael Rowan and Steve Mitchell and at the restart Milton took the lead, a huge five car battle for the top spot getting underway. A wide moment at the hairpin dropped Wilson and Thirlwall out of contention and they would remain fourth and fifth to the end while Milton, Covey and Gronkowski battled hard all the way, Covey just snatching the win by outdragging Milton from the hairpin to the finishline.

Somewhat ironically the Scottish Classic Sports and Saloons suffered its smallest grid of the year having just been awarded Championship status by the MSA for 2008, only seven cars turning out. The first race saw Stan Bernard grab the lead from Olly Ross at the start in his Porsche, Ross retaking the point on lap four and pulling out a couple of seconds on the battling Porsches of Bernard and Matthew Gordon, who managed to pass after a couple of attempts towards the end to finish second.

The second race saw Gordon make the best of the reversed grid as he leapt to front, Ross getting into the midfield and Bernard struggling to get through. With Ross up to second, Bernard seemed to struggle for pace, settling into fifth while Gordon took a straightforward victory ahead of Ross's Lotus. Ian Longford took the final podium spot ahead of Bernard who gained fourth after a spin from Steven Swan's Renault Gordini.

The Scottish Saloon and Sportscar races saw more dominance from the awesome Ford Focus of Andrew Gallacher, who in the first race cleared off into the distance very quickly to win by ten seconds from Charlie Shaw's Focus and Robert Pritchard's Caterham which was a further five seconds down. An early spin by Colin Simpson in his Marcos Mantis dropped him down the order but he soon fought his way back up to fourth though a late pitstop dropped him back to fifth behind Alistair McCaig who was making a Knockhill comeback in a Caterham.

The second race once again saw victory for Gallacher, though Pritchard managed to stay reasonably in touch due to the drier conditions. McCaig took third with Shaw an early retirement after an off at Clark/Carlube.

The two races of the Scottish XR2 Championship saw several offs and controversial incidents, the first race seeing Andrew Winchester take the lead from poleman Scott Fraser while Willie Davidson suffered a spin at Seat. A big accident for Dave Colville at Seat saw him out of the race the next time round while Fraser retook the point with a big battle between Stewart Scott and Scott Morrison raging for third. The battle for fifth between Charlie Cope and Colin MacKinnon saw Cope off at Scotsman while a similar mistake from Winchester saw him drop into the clutches of Morrison who grabbed second at the hairpin which he held to the end with MacKinnon and Ian Munro completing the top five.

The second race was red flagged with Munro and Russell Morgan stuck at Seat and at the restart Winchester jumped up to second behind Fraser, only to drop back behind Morrison after a moment at Scotsman. A close battle followed in which Winchester retook the position at the hairpin but it was too late to do anything about Fraser who led the two of them home with MacKinnon and Cope fighting over fourth again.