[1][2] The 2016 season begins in the snow-covered forest tracks around Inverness on 20 February, with the season finale taking place around Castle Douglas on 10 September.
Driver Jock Armstrong and regular co-driver Paula Swinscoe will start the season as defending champions having won the 2015 Championship.
[3] Aberdeen based haulage company ARR Craib will sponsor the series for the fourth year in a row.
[4] Alongside the main championship, 2016 will see a number of initiatives run over the course of the year including the following: For season 2016 there is to be seven events held predominantly on gravel surfaces.
[5] On 24 May, the Jim Clark Reivers Forest Rally Rally management team announced via a press release that the 2016 event – usually round 4 of the championship and held in June, would not take place.