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MOTOR SPORT FIRST AT TURNER’S HALL

Racing fans have seen it at Formula 1 race tracks the world over but, for the first time at a motor sport event in Barbados, spectators at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Shell V-Power King of the Hill event on Saturday (May 24) will enjoy live coverage on a Giant Daylight Screen.

STUDENTS HEAD FOR HISTORIC ENCOUNTER

Eight students from the Oxford Universities Motorsport Foundation (OUMF) are heading across the Atlantic on Tuesday (May 20) on a Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 747 to face the challenge of a lifetime - they will compete in Sol Rally Barbados 2008 (May 31/June 1), the region’s biggest annual international motor sport event.

WEDDING BELLS FOR BRITISH RALLY TEAM

Runner-up in the British Rally Championship in 2006, and one of the UK’s leading contenders in Sol Rally Barbados 2008 (May 31/June 1), Ryan Champion, will have more than just rallying to think about when he arrives in the Caribbean island – he’s agreed to officiate at the 10th ‘rally wedding’ since the inaugural Barbados Rally Carnival in 2001.

NEW CHALLENGES IN SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2008

The 89 crews entered for Sol Rally Barbados, the region’s biggest annual international motor sport event, will face some new challenges in 2008, following the organising Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) decision to rethink some elements of its blue riband event, which runs off over the weekend of May 31/June 1.

SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2008 Schedule

Saturday, May 31

0930 Start at Simpson Motors
0942 SS1 - Automotive Art Canefield North 1 5.90km
1012 SS2 – Dark Hole 1 4.40km
1057 SS3 – Automotive Art Canefield North 2 5.90km
1127 SS4 - Dark Hole 2 4.40km
1212 SS5 – Automotive Art Canefield North 3 5.90km
1242 SS6 – Dark Hole 3 4.40km
Service and lunch halt - Simpson Motors

Total stage distance, leg 1 30.90km

SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2008 Provisional entry list at May 12, 2008

Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown):
ENG – England; HOL – The Netherlands; IoM – Isle of Man; IRL – The Republic of Ireland; JAM – Jamaica; NIR – Northern Ireland; SCO – Scotland; SVG – St Vincent & The Grenadines; SWE – Sweden; TDAD – Trinidad & Tobago; WAL - Wales

+ group classifications subject to scrutineering of overseas entries

+ driver/co-driver (car) – listed alphabetically by Group

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.

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.

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).

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.

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