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STRONG SUPPORT FOR TOYO TIRES SAFARI

More than half the 36 crews entered for the Toyo Tires February Safari on Sunday (February 11) are in the novice class, promising further continued growth in the sport of navigational rallying; it is the first round of the 2007 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship and launches the Club’s 50th Anniversary season.

TOYO TIRES BACKS OPENING SAFARI

The Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) 50th Anniversary season kicks off next Sunday (February 11) with the Toyo Tires February Safari, the first of four rounds in the 2007 BRC Safari Championship . . . and the route-setter is promising a challenging event for navigators and drivers alike.

BARBADOS RALLY CLUB TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is to mark its 50th Anniversary in 2007 with a month of activities leading up to the annual staging of the island’s longest-running motor sport event – now titled the June Safari, this will be contested over the weekend of June 9/10. Its forerunner, the June Rally, was first staged in 1957 and led directly to the founding of the island’s oldest motor sport Club.

BOURNE, LINTON AND WARREN THE BIG WINNERS

More than 70 members of the island’s motor sport fraternity were honoured at the Barbados Rally Club’s Annual Awards ceremony on Friday night (November 17), staged at the St Philip residence of vice-chairman Barry Gale. Among the awardees were stage commanders and marshals, whose voluntary contribution to the sport is of such vital importance.

CRONEY AND ALLEYNE WIN SAFARI TITLES

Victory in Sunday’s (November 12) tough final round of the 2006 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship made Andrew Croney the season’s Champion Navigator . . . and he has won the title from the Novice class, holding off some seasoned campaigners.
Sunday’s BRC November Safari was not all plain sailing, either, for Croney and his driver for the event, Derek Gill. At the wheel of his new Suzuki Jimny on its maiden safari, Gill had traction problems on some hills and also suffered a cracked windscreen.

BRC NOVEMBER SAFARI SUNDAY

Championship leaders Leslie and Annalee Alleyne will start at number 1 for this Sunday’s (November 12) final round of the 2006 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship; by the close of last night’s (Tuesday) briefing meeting, 21 crews had entered, with more anticipated by the Thursday 5.00pm deadline.
The BRC November Safari will start at 8.00am from the car park of Advanced Business Systems in the Warrens Industrial Park, St Michael. Visiting every parish except St Lucy, the event will cover around 140 kilometres, divided into two routes.

SAFARI SEASON APPROACHES CONCLUSION

With just one event to run, Leslie and Annalee Alleyne remain at the head of the points standings in the 2006 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship; the last of the four rounds is slated for Sunday, November 12, and a worthy finale to a highly-competitive season is widely anticipated.

LINTON WINS SECOND DRIVER’S CHAMPIONSHIP

Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Champion of 2002 Adrian Linton claimed his second title on Sunday (October 22), when he clinched the Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s Championship in a last-round showdown with season-long rival Ian Warren in the Texaco BRC Gravel Rally; Linton is also the Modified 7 Champion.

MANNING WINS EVENT, BOURNE WINS TITLE

Trevor Manning returned to his winning ways on Sunday (October 22) when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) staged the Texaco BRC Gravel Rally . . . but his victory was not enough to prevent Paul Bourne becoming the second Texaco BRC Rally Champion.
Although only 19 cars contested the year’s final rally, a quality entry provided some class action for the large numbers of spectators who lined the two five-kilometre stages at Yorkshire and Guinea, each run four times. The event started and finished at the Vaucluse Raceway, where a prize-giving rounded off the day’s proceedings.

BOURNE AND MANNING HEAD ENTRY LIST

Paul Bourne and Trevor Manning will go head to head for the last time this season when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) stages the Texaco BRC Gravel Rally this Sunday (October 22); the deciding round of both the Texaco BRC Rally Championship and the Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s Championship, it will start and finish at the Vaucluse Raceway in St Thomas.

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