Seeing off their siblings
Six of the Press and Journal’s Young Driver of the Year semi-finalists went head to head with their siblings for a chance of winning the top prize, but it was the little sisters who came out trumps, writes Caroline Brodie
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FINALISTS Anne Marshall and Ailidh Nealgrove may have mixed feelings about still being in the running for a new Seat Ibiza, having knocked out their older siblings to win places in the final 12.
Ailidh, 17, beat big sister Rona, 20, to finals day at Knockhill, and 20-year-old Anne put paid to big brother Brian’s campaign to win the new Seat Ibiza Sport.
Brothers Rory Cruden, 20, and Callum, 17, from Kiltarlity, also just missed out on a place in the final stage of the tough driving competition.
When selected as semi-finalists, Anne, a student at The Robert Gordon University, and brother Brian, 21, an electrician, from Muir of Fowlis, Alford, said there would be no hard feelings if one beat the other.
At the time, Anne said: “We compete against each other all the time on the golf course, so it’s nothing new. There won’t be any animosity if one of us wins.”
Both siblings passed their tests at 17 and also completed Pass Plus, the Driving Standards Agency training scheme for newly qualified drivers.
Westhill Academy pupil Ailidh, who is also currently completing Pass Plus, having passed her test first time in November, has to borrow her father’s car if she wants to drive and hopes the competition will change all that.
When both girls, from Alford, were selected as semi-finalists, elder sister Rona, an accounts and finance student at The Robert Gordon University, said she would be happy for her little sister if she won.
