QUALITY AND QUANTITY FOR SUNDAY RALLY

Posted on April 18th, 2007.

Reigning Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Champion Paul ‘Surfer’ Bourne is well placed to extend his lead in this year’s Texaco BRC Rally Championship, following confirmation that his closest challenger in the standings, Trevor ‘Electric Micey’ Manning, has withdrawn from Sunday’s (April 22) Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac Rally.
Turbo boost problems for the Simpson Motors Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII cost Manning Group honours at last weekend’s VRW RallySprint, and the problem could not be resolved in time for Sunday. With an eight-strong four-wheel-drive entry promising stiff competition, however, Bourne will need another clean run from Sunday’s 12 stages.
The entry list offers something for every one among the island’s motor sport fans, expected to travel in large numbers to the south-east parishes:
+ the strongest four-wheel-drive entry since Rally Barbados 2006, including popular Jamaican John Powell in his ex-works Toyota Corolla WRC and the debut of former Group N Champion Geoff Noel’s recently-acquired Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX
+ the return after a year’s absence of multiple BRC Modified 7 Champion Edward Corbin, driving a Daihatsu Charmant
+ a seven-strong entry of Ford Escorts, led by Mark Hamilton and including another returnee Graham Manning, who will surely please the crowds in his restored Mark II
BRC vice-chairman Barry Gale said: “We are very pleased with the entry, bearing in mind the number of cars we know are not on the list! Filling the maximum 90 starters for Rally Barbados doesn’t look like much of a challenge at the moment.
“And its great to have a real competition for the highest-placed crew including a female – there are seven co-drivers: Jackie Linton will defend her title from 2006 against Megan and Melissa Blades, Hulita Brathwaite, Natasha Farnum, Lisa Roett and Sue Rogers.”
The first car is scheduled to start at 8.00am from the Colleton Plantation Yard, where Rally Control and the Service Park are also situated. There will be three morning runs each from Mapps to Stewarts Hill, and from Featherbed Lane to Woodland; after lunch, those stages will run in the reverse direction, before a SuperSpecial at Bushy Park, followed by the prize-giving.
The Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac Rally is also a round of the BRC Driver’s Championship and the Banks Championship, organised by the Motoring Club of Barbados Inc.

Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac Rally, April 22

Running order
1 Paul Bourne/Stuart Maloney (Subaru Impreza WRC)
2 John Powell - JAM/Michael March – JAM (Intercontinental Shipping/Trinidad Mooring and Launch Services/Toyota Trinidad Toyota Corolla WRC)
3 Roger Hill/Graham Gittens (Mobil 1/Nassco/Motormac Toyota Celica GT4)
4 Barry Gale/Ryan Rodriguez (Simpson Motors/Dentyne Ice/VP Racing/Nishikoi Fish Foods Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI)
5 Kirk Watkins/Rhett Watson (Abacus Builders Inc Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V)
6 Sean Gill/Michael Cummins (Simpson Motors/Shell V-Power/VISA/Automotive Art Suzuki Swift)
7 Jonathan Still/Heath Hazell (Hitachi Power Tools/Philips Lighting/Crane & Equipment BMW M3)
8 Roger Skeete/Ian Griffith (Havoline/Michelin Peugeot 306 Maxi)
9 Cliff Roett/Bryan Hurley (Thorogood Shoes/Nassco/Michelin/Lucky Horseshoe/ Sunpower/Castrol/Roetts Garage)
10 Sammy Cumberbatch/Nicholas Yarde (Williams Equipment/F Taylor/Michelin BMW M3)
11 St Elmo Cumberbatch/Owen Cumberbatch (Michelin/F Taylor/Carib Supply BMW E36)
12 Neil Armstrong/Barry Ward (Shell Helix/Hankook Tires/Soldier Seal Gunk Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI)
13 Geoffrey Noel/Kriegg Yearwood (Ezone/Globe Finance/Café Blue/Sunbeach/Essco/Automotive Art Mistubishi Lancer Evo IX)
14 Mark Hamilton/Clive Howell (Consolidated Finance/McEnearney Quality Inc Ford Escort MkII)
15 Ian Warren/Matthew Staffner (MQI Collision Repair Centre/Subzero Services Ltd/Details Car Valet Inc Peugeot 206)
16 Adrian Linton/Jackie Linton (Ravensden/Crane & Equipment/Garbage Gobbler/West Coast Garden Centre/Edwin Clarke Furniture Vauxhall Astra GSi)
17 Nicholas Gill/Sue Rogers (Castrol Syntec/Hennessy/Vita Malt/Lysol/Listerine/McEnearney Quality Inc/Mazda Genuine Parts Mazda 3)
18 Josh Read/Mark Jordan (Automotive Art Toyota Starlet)
19 Ryan Hutchinson/Melissa Blades (Auto Airtronic/Simple Green Toyota Celica GT4)
20 Greg Cozier/Antonio da Sliva (Citgo/Hyundai Commercial & Industrial Ford Escort RS2000)
21 Freddie Gale/Kyle Proverbs (Gale’s Hatcheries/NASSCO/Nitrous Formula Octane Booster/Nishikoi Fish Foods Toyota Corolla RunX)
22 Roger Marshall/Bruce Lambert (Photofinish Hyundai Accent)
23 Edward Corbin/Mark Perkins (Corbin’s Garage Ltd/Rezults Auto/Klark-Odio Ltd Daihatsu Charmant)
24 Daryl Clarke/Russell Branker (Mom’s Pasta Products/246 Tuning/Area 5 Auto Works Mitsubishi Mirage)
25 Andrew Jones/Mark Thompson (A P Jones Pharmacy Ford Escort MkII)
26 Neil Corbin/Jeremy Roach (Nassco/Jason Jones Foods Toyota Starlet)
27 Wayne Manning/Willie Hinds (??? Ford Escort MkI)
28 Calvin Briggs/Hulita Brathwaite (Ford Escort MkII)
29 John Corbin/Rodney Clarke (Corbin’s Garage/Klark-Odio Toyota Corolla DX)
30 Josh Delmas/Lisa Roett (Toyota Corolla GTi)
31 Jeremy Gonzalves/Natasha Farnum (Suzuki Forsa GTi)
32 Graham Manning/Alex Whitehead (McEnearney Quality Ford Escort MkII)
33 Julian Goddard/Martin Goddard (Lubriguard/Gunk/Caribtrans/Odyssey/ Batteries Ford Escort MkI)
34 Stuart White/Brandon McKenzie (Crane & Equipment/Budex Couriers Toyota Starlet)
35 Neil Barnard/Megan Blades (Simpson Motors/Shell V-Power/VISA Suzuki Ignis Sport)
36 Ryan Corbin/Christian Sampson (Peugeot 106)
37 Shareef Walcott/Barry Hill (Corbin’s Garage/Klark-Odio/Motoring News Toyota Corolla)
38 Gary Mendes/Russell Gilkes (Toyota Starlet)
39 Rohan Hall/Pedro Thomas (RDH Group/AC Delco Ford Escort MkII)
40 David Williams/Robert Symmonds (Toyota Starlet)
41 Jamal Brathwaite/tba (Peugeot 106)
42 Allan Maynard/tba (Toyota Corolla KP30)
43 Eric Allamby/Dwayne Marshall (Container Services/Consolidated Finance/Rent-Equip Mitsubishi Lancer)
44 Danny Williams/Nick Fields (Ford Fiesta)