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FAREWELL TO RALLYING AT BLACK BESS

Plans are well advanced for the final round of the 2004 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Drivers’ Championship, which is slated for this Sunday (October 31); the BRC Stage Rally will be a mixed-surface event, run at the Vaucluse Raceway in St Thomas and Black Bess Plantation in St Peter, which is being used for motor sport competition for the final time.

STRONG ENTRY FOR SUNDAY NAVIGATIONAL EVENT

Twenty-four crews entered for the third round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Industries Ltd, at the briefing meeting on Wednesday evening. The event is slated for this Sunday (September 26), with an 8.00am start in Speightstown, St Peter.

RACE AGAINST TIME FOR CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERS

Two front-running crews are facing a race against time to prepare their machines for the third round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Industries Ltd. It is slated for next Sunday (September 26), and will starting in Speightstown, St Peter.

LOOSE STAGES RALLY POSTPONED

The start of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) loose season, slated for this Sunday, July 25, has been postponed. A combination of the recent bad weather and the amount of repair work necessary to prepare the courses for competition has forced the 11th-hour decision.
A new date for this event will be announced once agreement has been reached between the BRC and the Barbados Motoring Federation, which controls the island’s motor sport calendar.

McCONNEY AND CRONEY WIN JUNE SAFARI

Philip McConney and Kenny Croney in their Suzuki Samurai defeated all-comers - and the elements - to claim victory in last Saturday's 4 x 4 June Safari, the second round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Industries Ltd.
At the end of a demanding route, one section of which had to be cancelled as the hill had been rendered impassable by heavy rain, McConney and Croney had a total of 1500 penalties. Second were David Stoute and Robin Hinds, who collected 3200 penalties in their Toyota Hilux.

PREVIOUS WINNERS HEAD JUNE SAFARI ENTRY LIST

The winning crews from the previous two years head the provisional entry list for Saturday's 4 x 4 June Safari, the second round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) increasingly popular Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Industries Ltd.

ISLAND’S OLDEST MOTOR SPORT EVENT THIS WEEKEND

Preparations are well under way for the 4 x 4 June Safari, to be run by the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) on Saturday (June 26); it is the second round of the Club’s increasingly popular Ruf 'n' Tuf Navigational Championship, sponsored by Barbados Garment Industries.
This year’s June Safari will be the 47th running of the event – formerly known as the June Rally – which makes it the oldest organised motor sport event in Barbados . . . possibly even in the Caribbean.

MUD DOGS INTO BATTLE AGAIN

The tough reputation earned over more than 50 years by the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) longest-standing event looks set to be maintained when the Shelbury Construction June Safari runs off over the weekend of June 28/29. The second round of the 2008 BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship - the season’s most important navigational event - promises once again to challenge man and machine, in much the same way as ‘The June Rally’ has done every year since 1957.

CORBIN LEADS RALLY CLUB TITLE CHASE

Thanks to a 100 per cent record of Group wins in the five events staged so far, Edward Corbin is the overall leader of the 2004 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Drivers’ Championship. The title chase continues at the Vaucluse Raceway on Sunday (June 20), where the third round of the VRW RallySprint Cup is also a counter toward the BRC championship.

BOURNE, SKEETE, MAYERS AND MANNING DO BATTLE

Paul Bourne carries start number 1 for the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) first Tarmac Rally of the season, which starts at 9.00am on Sunday (April 4) at the Vaucluse Raceway. The winner of last year's event, he faces a strong challenge from three of the island's front-runners.
The Banks/Havoline/Williams Industries/Pirelli Subaru Impreza WRC, with co-driver Luis Venezia, will be chased off the line by Roger Skeete and Dave Crawford (M9 Havoline/Michelin/McEnearney Quality Ford Escort WRC), who missed last year's event, waiting on spare parts.

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