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Ahead of the upcoming visit to Barbados of the GT Challenge de las Americas (August 29/30), host club Bushy Park Motorsports Inc (BPMSI) has confirmed some management changes. Two-time champion at the St Philip facility, Neil ‘Shocky’ Corbin, is the Club’s new Chairman, while Jamal Estwick, whose background is in karting, is Vice-Chairman.

  Driving a turbocharged Nissan in Group 3B, the top class back in the day, Corbin was Champion Driver in 1998 and 2000, before taking on a club management role, then concentrating on family and business after retiring from competition.

After a hyper-competitive round of the 2026 Sectus Technologies Barbados Karting Association (BKA) Championship at Bushy Park on Sunday (June 14), Aaron Blackett has again moved closer to points leader Edward Norris in the Champion Driver title chase; Norris has 369 points and Blackett 357, with Jacob Mayers third on 346.

  Top scorer in Easykart 125cc in April, cutting four points off Norris’s lead, he carried the momentum into the fourth round. With three hard-fought race wins, he was again top scorer, further reducing Norris’s lead as the championship reaches half-way.

With three different winners in the first four rounds and three more drivers on the podium, season five of the Barbados Rally2 Championship is the most competitive yet. Jamaica’s Kyle Gregg (Ford Fiesta Rally2) was the top scorer over the two rounds at BCIC Rally Barbados 2026 (May 29-31), climbing from fifth to third, just eight points now covering the top three in the title chase with two rounds remaining.

One year after retiring from the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event, 2024 winners Stuart Maloney and Kristian Yearwood returned to the top step of the podium at BCIC Rally Barbados 2026 (May 29-31). Victorious last year, Jamaican Kyle Gregg and Yearwood’s brother Kreigg finished second, ahead of Mark Maloney and son Justin.