The NC500 is Scotland’s answer to Route 66. It’s a jaw-dropping round-trip drive through incredible Highland scenery, with this year’s event using a similar route to the one we ran for SCC in late 2021, but in an anti-clockwise direction for 2022.
Leaving the first night’s hotel in Dunkeld, we headed up one of the best stretches of road to be found in the highlands, the infamous Old Military Road through Glenshee and on towards Balmoral on route to a quick tour of the Tomatin Distillery, a co sponsor of the official timekeeping partner of SCC, Jacobs & Co.
Leaving the distillery it was onwards to Inverness where we joined the NC500 route and headed up the Eastern coastal roads, taking in the views of the North Sea on route to Thurso.
The following 3 days saw the members really enjoy some of the best driving roads to really get to know their cars on roads that they are built to perform on with ease! These included the challenging West Coast roads over to probably the most photographed spot on the NC500, the Kylesku Bridge. The roads included some challenging sections of single track that offer lochs and vistas to make you brake to standstill and grab the camera to capture those digital images.
It’s hard to pick highlights from the 3 days on the Scottish West coast as there are just so many great sections of tarmac mixed in with scenery that simply takes your breath away at times, but for us, the road down to Kylesku bridge coupled with the section leaving the bridge are a fantastic couple of driving roads that need to be experienced if you ever find yourself in this part of Scotland!!
