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Reigning Class B Champion Driver Alexander Gill claimed his first overall victory in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship on Sunday (March 8). With new navigator Gary Mendes alongside in his Isuzu DMax, Gill won the Ace H & B Hardware March Safari by just 16 penalty points.

Sunday’s (March 8) Barbados Rally Club (BRC) MudDogs March Safari brings crews together once again after the four-month winter break. It is the first of five rounds in the 2026 Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship which will test the skills of the Club’s navigational rallying fraternity between now and November.

  Eight crews are listed on the running order published after last night’s (Tuesday) Briefing Meeting at Savvy on the Bay, Carlisle Bay, Bridgetown, equally split between seasoned campaigners and those with less experience, who compete in Class B.

Britain’s first closed-road rally of the year, last weekend’s (February 21/22) East Riding Stages, was an ideal shakedown for seven British crews entered for May’s BCIC Rally Barbados. Regulars Kevin Procter and Rob Swann finished fifth and 10th respectively and newcomer Stephen Pawson 11th, as all seven cars finished the 72-mile event.

The Barbados Karting Association (BKA) embarks on its 40th year of providing the first rung on the circuit racing ladder this weekend. Scheduled for a 9.00 am start, Sunday’s (February 22) UpBeat Wholesale Raceday at Bushy Park Barbados is the first of eight rounds scheduled for the 2026 Sectus Technologies Championship.