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Unlike most of Scotland's motor-racing brat pack, Dario Franchitti did not don the kilt at recent awards ceremonies.
However, unlike Peter Dumbreck, Allan McNish, Andrew Kirkaldy, and David Coulthard, he collected an award at the McLaren-Autosport motorsport Oscars in London's plush Grosvenor House Hotel.
Britain's leading FedEx Champcar racer beat Formula One's Damon Hill, Eddie Irvine, and Coulthard, plus rallying interloper Colin McRae and Le Mans winner Allan McNish to the British competition driver's plaudit.
If Franchitti monopolised the silverware, then the happy state of burgeoning Scottish talent dictates that none of the contenders will be found wanting when it comes to gainful employment next season.
Within 48 hours, he returned the USA and was back in the cockpit of a racing car. Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, home of the Team Kool Green organisation was the location, and Franchitti was sitting incongruously on a resin-filled heavy-duty polythene bag, having his lower anatomy moulded to the racing seat's configuration.
On Wednesday, the Deep South beckoned for the 1999 team's glitzy unveiling in Louisville, Kentucky, with tobacco backers Brown and Williamson.
Thursday and yesterday provided the chance to see if the hip- hugging seat fitted as the Reynard, with its new 900-horsepower Honda engine, howled round the crumbling Sebring airfield track in the middle of Florida.
Next to Coulthard, Franchitti was the highest earning Scottish racing driver this season, generating more than $1m in prize-money as he won three Champcar races and finished third in the series.
Next year, he will be on a short list of title...