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RECORD SUPPORT FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has secured record levels of sponsorship for its 2007 programme of events as it prepares to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of its founding in 1957. Familiar sponsors of the 21st century are being joined by some businesses whose support in the early days of motor sport was instrumental in its steady growth into the biggest spectator sport in the island.

MANNING PREDICTS HOT ACTION IN 2007

Trevor ‘Electric Micey’ Manning is geared up for a season of hot motor sport competition in 2007. Despite losing out to Paul Bourne in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) March Gravel Stages last Sunday (March 11), Manning remains upbeat about the prospects for the season.
Speaking mid-week, he said: “I think this is going to be a fantastic season. Paul and I are right on it, and I’m looking forward to the competition. Its one-nil to Paul at the moment, after last weekend, but I’m aiming to turn that round in the weeks to come, starting at Luke Hill.

BARBADOS RALLY CLUB MEMBERS IN BOUYANT MOOD

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has embarked on its 50th Anniversary year on a positive note, members learned from Chairman Mark Hamilton at the Club’s Annual General Meeting at the BCTSA Clubhouse at Searles, Christchurch, last Tuesday evening (February 27).

QUEST TO FIND NEW RALLY CHAMPION BEGINS

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 50th Anniversary season looks set to be a vintage one, with a quality entry received for the BRC March Gravel Stages, the opening round of the Texaco BRC Rally Championship this Sunday (March 11); the first rally action in the island for more than four months, the event is eagerly anticipated by competitors and spectators alike.

GOOD START TO RALLY CLUB SEASON

Navigational rally veteran Hal Hunte had high praise for the organisers of the recent Toyo Tires February Safari, which kicked off the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) 50th Anniversary season. After an evenly-matched contest, Chris Armstrong and Wayne Clarke emerged winners in their Suzuki Samurai, with a total of 328 penalties - third on the first route, they then won route two.

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.

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