WARREN AND WHITE ARE 2009 MUD DOGS CHAMPIONS

Posted on November 17th, 2009.

Former Novice Champions Dustin Edwards and Ryan Corbin ended their Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship season on a high, winning the Nassco November Safari on Sunday (November 15) . . . and they brought a smile to the sponsor’s face as well, as they won in their Blockman/SDRR Hydraulics/Crane & Equipments Toyota Hilux!
Meanwhile, despite their lowest finish of the year – fifth place following three previous top three results - Darrin White and Robert Warren (Flyin’ Fish/Lucky Locks Nissan Frontier) did enough to carry off the 2009 Driver and Navigator Championships.
The winners accrued 262 penalties and were the only crew to figure in the top six on both routes, third in the morning, fourth in the afternoon; their winning margin was just 32 penalty points, from Audley and Jeremy Croney, claiming their best result of the season in the JCB Excavators Suzuki Samurai, with Leslie and Anna-Lee Alleyne (Autozone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero) third, another 10 points behind, Anna-Lee collecting the award as highest-placed female.
Adrian Sinckler and Andre Murrell (Suzuki Samurai) were not only the leaders of the Novice Category after route one, but the event overall! With just 24 penalty points, they were more than 100 ahead of Dominic Brooker/Stephen Dear (SDRR Hydraulics/Next Generation Electrical/Joe Brooker's Building Toyota Hilux) and Edwards/Corbin.
While they held on to their advantage among the novices in the afternoon and collected the trophies donated by Richard Daniel of Neptune Tours, along with a hat and mug from Nassco, they slipped down the overall order. Novice trophies were also presented to runners-up Matthew Durrant/Renne Mings (Tint Black Foot Flat Land Rover Defender) and third-placed David Brewster/Winston Drakes (Marks Auto Parts/Champion Auto Wrecker Service Suzuki Samurai).
The route was set by 2005 Champion Navigator and Driver Neil Barnard and Barry Gale, whom Mud Dogs Chairman Leslie Alleyne thanked for their work: “It really was a fabulous event and a great way to end the year. We went on some roads that I had never been on in my life. It was clear that Barry and Neil had put a lot of time into this one, because the tricks and the layout of controls were very cleverly orchestrated.”
The Prizegiving was held last night (Tuesday) at the Barbados Clay Target Shooting Association Club House, where Nassco’s Neil Corbin presented awards: the winning crew took home $500 in credit at Nassco, with $300 and $200 for second and third.
Alleyne added: “The atmosphere last night was great and people stayed around a long time, chatting about the year and reliving memories of the previous events. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors for the year, our marshals and all of the competitors for making the 2009 season the success that it was.”
As Alleyne and wife Anna-Lee had been competing only for fun, they handed their $200 third prize to Simon Parravicino and Michael Jones (Toyota Hilux); although complete novices, they had showed great enthusiasm and finished 11th of the 22 crews on route two. They also won the Encouragement Award, donated by Biddy Barber, and a hat and mug from Nassco.
The Mud Dogs will join other members of the Barbados Rally Club for the Annual Prizegiving on Friday (November 20), where the year-end awards will be presented.

Nassco November Safari – November 15
Mud Dogs BRC Safari Championship, round 4
Results
1st Dustin Edwards/Ryan Corbin (Blockman/SDRR Hydraulics/Crane & Equipments Toyota Hilux), 262 penalties
2nd Audley Croney/Jeremy Croney (JCB Excavators Suzuki Samurai), 294pens
3rd Leslie Alleyne/Anna-Lee Alleyne (Autozone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero), 304pens
4th Dominic Brooker/Stephen Dear (SDRR Hydraulics/Next Generation Electrical/Joe Brooker's Building Toyota Hilux), 338pens
5th Darrin White/Robert Warren (Flyin’ Fish/Lucky Locks Nissan Frontier), 413pens
6th Biddy Barber/Chris O’Neal (Aqua Pur/Castrol/Visitor's Information Daihatsu Feroza), 437pens
7th Damian Brooker/Derek Edwards (Joe Brooker's Building/SDRR Hydraulics Toyota Hilux), 450pens
8th Sean Dowding/Kirk Watkins (Axis Inc/Vesta Ltd Isuzu D-Max), 557pens
9th Edson Arthur/Renata Roett (Toyota Hilux), 568pens
10th Michael Ward/Willie Hinds (EZ Sign Stop Suzuki Samurai), 617pens
etc
Novice Category
1st Adrian Sinckler/Andre Murrell (Suzuki Samurai), 682pens – 12th o/a
2nd Matthew Durrant/Renne Mings (Tint Black Foot Flat Land Rover Defender), 1306pens – 16th o/a
3rd David Brewster/Winston Drakes (Marks Auto Parts/Champion Auto Wrecker Service Suzuki Samurai), 1467pens – 18th o/a
etc
Route 1
1st Sinckler/Murrell, 24pens; 2nd Brooker/Dear, 135pens; 3rd Edwards/Corbin, 187pens; etc
Route 2
1st equal Alleyne/Alleyne and Barber/Gollop, 0pens; 3rd Croney/Croney, 50pens; etc

2009 BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship
Positions after final round - Navigators:
1st Robert Warren, 226 points
2nd Stephen Dear, 218pts
3rd Wayne Clarke, 200pts
4th Kirk Watkins, 190pts
5th Derek Edwards, 178pts
6th Willie Hinds, 176pts
7th Neil Barnard, 168pts
8th Tricia King, 162pts
9th Ryan Corbin, 148pts
10th Tiffany Marshall, 140pts
etc
Novice Category:
1st Andre Murrell, 132pts – 11th o/a
2nd Winston Drakes, 82pts – 16th o/a
3rd Gary Mendes, 70pts – 17th o/a
etc
Drivers:
1st Darrin White, 226 points
2nd Dominic Brooker, 218pts
3rd Chris Armstrong, 200pts
* 4th Sean Dowding, 190pts
* 5th Paul Marshall, 190pts
6th Damian Brooker, 178pts
7th Michael Ward, 176pts
8th Audley Croney, 170pts
9th Barry Gale, 168pts
10th Kirk King, 162pts
etc
* tie decided on lower number of penalties on the events common to both drivers
Novice Category:
1st Adrian Sinckler, 132pts – 12th o/a
2nd David Brewster, 80pts – 18th o/a
3rd Luke Gittens, 70pts – 19th o/a
etc