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AUTOMOTIVE ART SHAKEDOWN STAGES ON SUNDAY

Nearly 40 crews were confirmed at last night’s Briefing Meeting for this weekend’s opening round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2008 Rally Championship. Sunday’s (April 20) Automotive Art Shakedown Stages gives organisers and competitors alike the chance to ‘check their systems’ in readiness for Rally Barbados next month.
The first car will start from Automotive Art’s Six Roads outlet at 9.00am, the 39-strong field of competitors being led away by Trevor Manning, tasked with the duty of Zero Car in his crowd-pleasing rear-wheel-drive Mitsubishi Lancer.

Posted on April 17th, 2008.

MUD DOGS IN FOR MEMORABLE SEASON

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship is set for a vintage year, if the comments following last Saturday’s (March 8) opening round are any guide. At Tuesday night’s Prizegiving, competitors variously described the Toyo Tires March Safari as “a brilliant piece of route-setting”, “a wicked event” and “very tough from the navigational perspective.”

Posted on March 12th, 2008.

‘MUD DOGS’ TACKLE TOYO TIRES SAFARI SATURDAY

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship gets under way on Saturday (March 8) with the Toyo Tires March Safari. Nearly 30 crews have entered the opening round of the newly-titled Championship, an encouraging start for the organisers, who have big plans to build on the recent growth in this section of the sport.

Posted on March 4th, 2008.

RALLY CLUB GRAVEL SPRINT ON SUNDAY

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2008 Championship season gets under way on Sunday (March 2) with a Gravel Sprint on the popular course at Yorkshire and Searles in Christchurch; the event is the first event in the BRC’s restructured championship and is slated to start at 9.00am.
Following early-morning scrutineering and a ‘drive-through’ at 8.30am, there will be one practice run and three official timed runs; the course covers seven kilometres and, although the same venue was used by the Club last year, there are changes from the previous configuration.

Posted on February 27th, 2008.

LINTONS FINISH WALES RALLY GB FOR SECOND YEAR

Despite facing the toughest conditions even the most hardened regulars could remembers for many years, double Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Champion Adrian Linton and brother Jonathan “had a blast” on Wales Rally GB, the deciding round of the 2007 World Rally Championship.

Posted on December 10th, 2007.

LINTON BROTHERS ON WORLD STAGE AGAIN

Double Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s Champion Adrian Linton was missing from last Friday’s (November 23) Annual Prizegiving at the BCTSA Clubhouse. While wife and regular co-driver Jackie received the trophy marking his second consecutive victory in Modified 7 on his behalf, Linton was already on a flight across the Atlantic.

Posted on November 25th, 2007.

BOURNE, READ & STILL THE BIG WINNERS

More than 70 members of the island’s motor sport fraternity were honoured on Friday evening (November 23) at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Annual Prizegiving, which brought the curtain down on the Club’s 50th Anniversary season. Among the awardees were marshals, whose voluntary contribution to the sport is of such vital importance.

Posted on November 23rd, 2007.

HINDS & WESTERN WIN SAFARI AND CHAMPIONSHIP

Victory in last Sunday’s (November 11) final round of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship has landed the 2007 Champion Navigator and Driver titles respectively for Robin Hinds and Mark Western.

Posted on November 14th, 2007.

SIXTY TO BE REWARDED FOR MOTOR SPORT SUCCESS

Competitors from the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) will gather for the final time in the Club’s 50th Anniversary season next Friday (November 23) at the Annual Prizegiving, slated for a 7.30pm start at the BCTSA Clubhouse, Searles, Christchurch.

Posted on November 12th, 2007.

FINAL SAFARI SHOWDOWN

All the leading contenders in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2007 Safari Championship appear on the entry list published today for Sunday’s (November 11) final round, so competition promises to be fierce . . . an appropriate end to the Club’s 50th Anniversary season.

Posted on November 8th, 2007.

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