Mud Dogs / Navigational Rally

Reigning Class B Champion Driver Alexander Gill claimed his first overall victory in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship on Sunday (March 8). With new navigator Gary Mendes alongside in his Isuzu DMax, Gill won the Ace H & B Hardware March Safari by just 16 penalty points.

Sunday’s (March 8) Barbados Rally Club (BRC) MudDogs March Safari brings crews together once again after the four-month winter break. It is the first of five rounds in the 2026 Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship which will test the skills of the Club’s navigational rallying fraternity between now and November.

  Eight crews are listed on the running order published after last night’s (Tuesday) Briefing Meeting at Savvy on the Bay, Carlisle Bay, Bridgetown, equally split between seasoned campaigners and those with less experience, who compete in Class B.

Drivers and support crews across all disciplines organised by the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) are making final preparations for the start of the 2026 season. Over the first two full weekends of March, rally drivers will begin their quest for championship points, along with grassroots autocross and off-road navigational competitors.

Six new names are listed among the 22 overall and class champions confirmed today (Friday) by the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) following a successful 2025 season. More than 230 competitors regularly participated in the Club’s varied motor sport disciplines, with a record number of 70 local crews starting its premier event, BCIC Rally Barbados.

Ben Norris and Kirk Watkins won Sunday’s (November 2) Coastal Lubricants November Safari to secure second place in the provisional final standings for the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2025 Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship. Although absent on Sunday, Leslie Alleyne is set to celebrate a ninth Champion Driver title and Chris O’Neal his eighth as Navigator.