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RALLY CHAMPIONS HEAD FOR CARIBBEAN SHOWDOWN

Rally Champions from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making their final preparations to fly to the 166-square-mile Caribbean island of Barbados, where they will compete in the region’s biggest annual international motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados, over the weekend of May 31/June 1.

Posted on May 11th, 2008.

FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE INVASION FROM BRITAIN

An influx of four-wheel-drive cars from Britain promises to make Sol Rally Barbados 2008 on May 31/June 1 one of the most competitive in the 18-year history of the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) premier event. With the provisional entry list scheduled for publication on Monday, May 12, the Club has already intimated that approaching one-third of the near-capacity entry will run in the top Groups.

Posted on May 8th, 2008.

BRITISH CHAMPIONS RENEW RIVALRY IN BARBADOS

An intense, though friendly, rivalry that has enhanced many a round of Britain’s National Rally Championship since 2004 is about to be revived, when former National Champions Steve Perez and Paul Bird face off against one another – and the rest of the record-breaking Modified 8-WRC class - in Sol Rally Barbados 2008 (May 31/June 1).

Posted on May 6th, 2008.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS: SPONSORSHIP CONFIRMED

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) and the Sol Group, the Caribbean’s largest independent oil company, have confirmed a three-year agreement, which will see them work closely together to expand the Club’s premier annual event - it will now be known as Sol Rally Barbados - and to promote it even more vigorously, both in the region and worldwide.

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

BJORN WALDEGARD

Björn Waldegård’s career spans five decades; he first competed in the early 1960s and, while he no longer campaigns at World Championship level, he remains a determined competitor in historic rallies and an enormously popular guest at demonstration events, such as the world-famous Goodwood Festival of Speed in England.

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

KRIS MEEKE

In his short career – he was born the same year Bjorn Waldegard became World Rally Champion – Kris Meeke has won three British titles and been a title-contender in the Junior World Rally Championship, mentored by former Champion, the late Colin McRae.

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2008 Programme of key events

Friday, May 23 - 4.00pm to approx 8.00pm - Scrutineering
+ Sir Garfield Sobers Gymnasium, Wildey, St Michael
Saturday, May 24 - 11.00am to approx 6.00pm - Shell V-Power King of the Hill
+ Turner’s Hall, St Andrew
+ BRC 2008 Sprint Championship, round two
+ for overseas competitors, a shake-down before the ‘main event’
+ there will be one practice/sighting run, followed by three official timed runs
Monday to Friday, May 26 to May 30 - 4.00 to 6.00pm each day - Meet the Drivers

Posted on April 28th, 2008.

BOURNE SHAKES DOWN THE OPPOSITION

Reigning Champion Paul Bourne opened his 2008 account with victory in Sunday’s Automotive Art Shakedown Stages, the first round of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Rally Championship. With regular co-driver Stuart Maloney alongside in his Subaru Impreza WRC S9, he was fastest on all but one of the 11 stages, claiming victory by a comfortable margin of more than one minute.

Posted on April 20th, 2008.

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.

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