ALLEYNE FAMILY CLAIM JUNE SAFARI

Husband and wife team Leslie and Annalee Alleyne added their names to the roll of honour of the island’s oldest motor sport event on Saturday (June 28), with victory in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) June Safari; Timmy Mahon and Kirk Watkins finished equal third overall to win the event’s Novice Group.
Driving the Autozone/CITGO Mazda B2500, the Alleynes completed the two routes with only 100 penalties, beating another family crew – Biddy Barber and son Brett – into second place; they had collected 300 penalties in the Biddy’s Visitors Information Daihatsu Feroza.
Mahon and Watkins had 400 penalties in their Isuzu Pickup and tied for third overall with the Kumho Tyres Toyota Hilux of father and son team Stephen and Roger Mayers, who had won the BRC’s first Navigational Test of the season – beating the Alleynes into second place – back in March.
Twenty-six four-wheel-drive vehicles completed the 46th running of the island’s longest-running motor sport event, which was staged first in 1957 when it was known as the June Rally; this year’s challenging routes were set by Lindsay Farmer and Rob Warren, who had been a co-winner of the 2002 event, navigating for his brother Ian.
Co-organiser Farmer said: “I would like to thank the marshals for devoting their Saturday to sitting in the middle of nowhere; their help was invaluable. Also, to all the competitors, thanks for entering the event. Rob Warren and I were really heartened by the numbers who came out for it, and it definitely made all our hard work worth it. I hope they all had a good, yet challenging, time, and will consider entering the next event in November.”
Trophies were awarded to the top three crews overall, the highest-placed Female Team and the highest-placed Novice Group crew; there were also trophies for the winners of Route 1 and Route 2 in each of the Novice Group and Pro Group.
The highest-placed female team, Keri-Dawn Watkins and Lisa Roett won a trophy and gift set from the SOMA store in Sheraton, donated by Sophie Warren; the overall winners, Leslie and Annalee Alleyne, claimed a trophy and dinner for two on the Harbour Master (donated by Tall Ships); other placed crews collected Gift Vouchers donated by Carters General Stores, movie passes to Olympus Theatres and gallons of Lubriguard Oil (donated by KG Enterprises).

Results & awards follow
For further information: robin@bradfax.com
BRC web site: www.rallyclub.com

BRC June Safari, Saturday, June 28, 2003

Overall results & awards
1st Leslie Alleyne/Annalee Alleyne (AutoZone/CITGO Mazda B2500), 100 penalties – a trophy and dinner cruise on Harbour Master
2nd Biddy Barber/Brett Barber (Biddy's Visitors Information Daihatsu Feroza), 300 pens – a trophy and two $50 vouchers from Carters General Stores
3rd equal Timmy Mahon/Kirk Watkins (Isuzu Pickup) and Stephen Mayers/Roger Mayers (Kumho Tyres Toyota Hilux), 400 pens – a trophy and two movie passes to Olympus to each crew
5th Jimmy Gittens/Willie Hinds (Sharp Shot Video Suzuki Samurai), 500 pens
6th equal David Stoute/Robin Hinds (Toyota Hilux) and Noel Edwards/Jason Downey (Suzuki Vitara), 600 pens
8th equal Paul Bourne/Warwick Eastmond (Suzuki SJ410) and Barry Mayers/Max Ferri (Suzuki Vitara), 700 pens
10th Philip McConney/Rhett Watson (Suzuki Samurai), 800 pens

Novice Group
1st Timmy Mahon/Kirk Watkins (Isuzu Pickup), 400 pens – a trophy and 2 gallons of Lubriguard oil
2nd Barry Mayers/Max Ferri (Suzuki Vitara), 700 pens
3rd equal Keri-Dawn Watkins/Lisa Roett (Toyota RAV4) and Gregory Dickenson/Matthew Dickenson (Toyota Hilux), 900 pens

Highest-placed female crew
Watkins/Roett – a trophy and gift set from SOMA

Route 1
Pro Group
1st Alleyne/Alleyne, 0 penalties – a trophy; 2nd equal Peter Bradshaw/Derek Gill (Land Rover Series II) Peter Bradshaw/Derek Gill (Land Rover Series II) and Alex Cole/Stewart Gill (Land Rover), 100 penalties
Novice Group
1st Mahon/Watkins, 300 penalties – a trophy; 2nd Mayers/Ferri, 400 penalties – 1 gallon of Lubriguard oil; 3rd Watkins/Roett, 600 penalties – 1 gallon of Lubriguard oil

Route 2
Pro Group
1st Barber/Barber, 0 penalties – a trophy; 2nd Alleyne/Alleyne, 100 penalties; 3rd Mayers/Mayers, 200 penalties
Novice Group
1st equal Mahon/Watkins – a trophy and Dickenson/Dickenson, 100 penalties – 1 gallon of Lubriguard oil; 3rd Sean Gibbs/Kerri Gibbs, 200 penalties – 1 gallon of Lubriguard oil