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MEEKE PICKS SOL RALLY BARBADOS PRIZE MARSHALS

Citroen World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke says every rally fan should visit Sol Rally Barbados “at least once”. The Ulsterman made the remark when he joined the Circuit of Ireland’s Chief Marshal Raymond Linton last week to pick the names of two motor sport volunteers who will enjoy a trip to Sol RB16 next month (June 3-5) out of the prestigious Ulster Automobile Club Trophy.

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MEEKE RETURNS FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2012

Winner of Sol Rally Barbados in 2008 & ’09, Northern Ireland’s Kris Meeke has confirmed that he will return to the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International this year to revisit the event that he once described as “the best 10 days of my life”.   His victories in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event were not without their challenges: in the first year, a propshaft snapped on the startline of Sunday’s first stage, leaving him with a two-wheel-drive Toyota Corolla WRC for the rest of the day.

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MEEKE DOUBTFUL FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Fresh from victory in last weekend’s Rally Internacional de Curitiba in Brazil, Ulstermen Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle have cast serious doubts on their chances of returning to attempt a hat-trick of wins on Sol Rally Barbados (May 29/30), which celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the inaugural running of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) International All-Stage Rally.

MEEKE AND NAGLE REPEAT SOL RALLY BARBADOS WIN

Northern Ireland’s Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle won the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009, for the second time last weekend (May 29-31); driving the Digicel/Red Bull/ARMAG Subaru Impreza WRC S9 for the first time, Meeke’s winning margin was 16.75s, almost identical to last year.

MEEKE TO DEFEND SOL RALLY BARBADOS TITLE

Just hours before the entry deadline for Sol Rally Barbados 2009 last Friday (May 1), a deal was struck for Kris Meeke to return and defend the title. The Ulsterman heads an oversubscribed entry list, which disproves predictions that the worldwide recession would adversely affect the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event.

KRIS MEEKE

Kris Meeke has won three British titles, been a Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) title-contender, and is currently joint second in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), having won round two in Brazil for Peugeot UK/Kronos Racing.
Meeke was born in July 1979, in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, into a famous Irish rallying family, father Sydney one of the country’s leading motor sport preparation experts. After qualifying in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast, Meeke joined M-Sport, headquarters the Ford World Rally Team, as a computer-aided designer.

MEEKE AND NAGLE WIN SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Northern Ireland’s Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle were confirmed at yesterday’s Prize-giving at The Boatyard as winners of Sol Rally Barbados 2008 (May 31/June 1); a weekend of drama and excitement ended with the first lock-out of the podium by overseas crews since Meeke’s fellow-countryman Kenny McKinstry led home Jamaicans Jeffrey Panton and Doug Gore in 1996.

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