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MAJOR RETHINK OF SOL RALLY BARBADOS ROUTE

Following the most comprehensive re-assessment since 2003 of the route for Sol Rally Barbados, the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is targetting three key benefits from this year’s 20th running of the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event: a refreshing change in the challenge for competitors, a better spectator experience and a continued lessening of disruption for residents along the route.

Posted on May 12th, 2009.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2009 Provisional entry list at May 11

some classifications subject to scrutineering of overseas entries
+ list is provisional and includes reserves

+ driver/co-driver (car) – listed alphabetically by class

Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown):
ENG – England; IRL – The Republic of Ireland; JAM – Jamaica; NED – The Netherlands; NIR – Northern Ireland; SCO – Scotland; TDAD – Trinidad & Tobago; WAL - Wales

Posted on May 10th, 2009.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS OVERSUBSCRIBED

The strongest entry in the 20-year history of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) blue riband event will assemble in three weeks’ time for the Caribbean’s biggest annual international celebration of motor sport, Sol Rally Barbados 2009 (May 29-31) . . . and success this weekend has provided a timely confidence boost for last year’s top two crews.

Posted on May 10th, 2009.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS HIGHLIGHT OF CHAMPIONSHIP

Championships will have reached their half-way point. With three rounds run to date, some patterns are already emerging . . . and, with three more to run off at Shell V-Power King of the Hill and Sol Rally Barbados – each day is a separate round – island competitors are preparing for the high-pressure highlight of their season.

Posted on May 7th, 2009.

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.

Posted on May 5th, 2009.

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.

Posted on May 5th, 2009.

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.

Posted on May 5th, 2009.

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

Posted on May 5th, 2009.

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.

Posted on May 3rd, 2009.

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.

Posted on April 28th, 2009.

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