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MEEKE TO DEFEND SOL RALLY BARBADOS TITLE

Just hours before the entry deadline for Sol Rally Barbados 2009 last Friday (May 1), a deal was struck for Kris Meeke to return and defend the title. The Ulsterman heads an oversubscribed entry list, which disproves predictions that the worldwide recession would adversely affect the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Shell V-Power King of the Hill: both the day and venue for this vital ‘shakedown’ the previous weekend have been changed. From Saturday last year, the event has been switched to Sunday (May 24), while the venue will be the popular Stewart’s Hill stage in St Philip, which is not included in Sol Rally Barbados. Service will be based at the Windward Cricket Club, which will also be the venue for the evening Prizegiving.

KRIS MEEKE

Kris Meeke has won three British titles, been a Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) title-contender, and is currently joint second in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC), having won round two in Brazil for Peugeot UK/Kronos Racing.
Meeke was born in July 1979, in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, into a famous Irish rallying family, father Sydney one of the country’s leading motor sport preparation experts. After qualifying in Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast, Meeke joined M-Sport, headquarters the Ford World Rally Team, as a computer-aided designer.

Programme of key events

Wednesday, May 20 - 4.30 to 6.30pm - Meet and Greet
+ a chance for fans to mingle with their favourite competitors
+ Shell Warrens Service Station, St Michael
Friday, May 22 - 4.00pm to approx 8.00pm - Scrutineering
+ Sir Garfield Sobers Gymnasium, Wildey, St Michael
Sunday, May 24 - 10.00am to approx 4.00pm - Shell V-Power King of the Hill
+ round four of the Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s and Class Championships
+ Stewart’s Hill, St Philip, with one practice and three official timed runs

HILL WINS AUTOMOTIVE ART SHAKEDOWN STAGES

The final countdown to Sol Rally Barbados 2009 will be busier than anticipated for some of the island’s rally teams following yesterday’s (May 3) Automotive Art Shakedown Stages; a high rate of attrition left just 27 crews classified as overall finishers from the 47 that started the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 10-stage tarmac event.

BOURNE v HILL v MANNING v SKEETE

For the first time since the game of World Rally Car musical chairs stopped, the island’s four leading car and driver combinations will come face to face on Sunday (May 3) in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Automotive Art Shakedown Stages. The 10-stage tarmac rally starts the final four weeks of preparations for Sol Rally Barbados 2009, the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event.

EUROPEANS SET SAIL FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Motor sport fans who work for the Geest Line in Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, have been enjoying themselves over the past couple of days, as more than 20 rally cars have assembled on the docks ready for shipping next week to the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados (May 29-31).

ORGANISERS MAKE READY FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

The countdown to Sol Rally Barbados 2009, the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event, steps up a gear in 10 days’ time (Sunday, May 3) when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) stages the Automotive Art Shakedown Stages . . . four weeks in advance of the 20th running of its blue riband event.

BIRD TARGETS SOL RALLY BARBADOS WIN

Confirmation from the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) that English businessman Paul Bird’s entry is the latest to be received on-line for its blue riband event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009 (May 29-31), brings to seven the number of World Rally Cars entered, equalling last year’s record . . . and there are more still on the horizon.

THE FEMALE TOUCH AT SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Barry and Cheryl Spencer will return to celebrate their first wedding anniversary in May, just days before they compete in the region’s biggest annual motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados, for the second time.

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