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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

NOVEMBER SAFARI TO SETTLE CHAMPIONSHIP

Competition in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 50th Anniversary season is about to draw to a close, with navigators and drivers preparing to contest the final round of the 2007 BRC Safari Championship; with just a handful of points spread across the leading crews, the outcome of the Championship will depend on success or failure in the November Safari (Sunday, November 11).

READ IS RALLY CLUB’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CHAMPION

In the 50th Anniversary season of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC), Josh Read has added his name to the list of distinguished former Champions, including Michael Gill, Sean Gill, Roger Hill and Roger Skeete, by winning the recently-concluded 2007 Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s Championship.

BOURNE RETAINS RALLY CROWN

With a full house of eight fastest stage times in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) final rally of the season last Sunday (October 21), Paul ‘Surfer’ Bourne confirmed his position as champion-elect of the 2007 Texaco BRC Rally Championship; he ends the year with 70 points, more than 30 ahead of his closest rival, to retain the title he won for the first time last year.

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