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STILL CHASING HAT-TRICK ON SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Local crowd favourite Jonathan Still is gunning for a hat-trick of wins in the island’s SuperModified 11 category when Sol Rally Barbados 2009, the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event, runs off on May 29-31 . . . but he faces the strongest field the class has ever attracted.

CLASS BATTLES PROMISED IN SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Since the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC) published the provisional entry list for Sol Rally Barbados 2009 on Monday (May 11), the main focus on the popular internet chat rooms in the island and around the region has been on who will claim outright victory in the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2009 Schedule

Saturday, May 30

0900 SS1 – Sailor Gully 1 (4.80km)
0930 SS2 – Automotive Art Canefield South 1 (5.90km)
1035 SS3 – Sailor Gully 2 (4.80km)
1105 SS4 - Automotive Art Canefield South 2 (5.90km)
1210 SS5 – Sailor Gully 3 (4.80km)
1240 SS6 - Automotive Art Canefield South 3 (5.90km)

Service and lunch halt - Simpson Motors
Total stage distance, leg 1 - 32.10km

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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