Crucial points up for grabs in BRC Double-Header

With two points-scoring opportunities, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Double-Header Summer Sprint on Sunday (August 24) will be crucial for success in the 2025 BRC Driver’s & Class Championships. As the season draws to a close, with November’s Winter Rally the ninth and final round, Sunday will play a key role in the outcome of the chase for the Champion Driver title, also for victory in the 10 contested classes.

  Round seven will comprise four timed runs on a 3.8-kilometre course starting at Drax Hall in St George, passing through Woodland and Todds to finish at Ellesmere, with four runs in the reverse direction constituting round eight. The fastest run in each direction counts towards the driver’s championship tally, with a class win worth 15 points.

  Forty-four drivers are listed on the running order published today (Friday), three more than last year, with BCIC RB25 winner and BRC 4wd Championship leader, Jamaica’s Kyle Gregg, heading a five-car FIA R5 entry in his Ford Fiesta Rally2. He will face the similar car of Josh Read, also the Fiesta R5 of Adam Mallalieu, who finished third and sixth respectively in BCIC RB25.

  Roger Hill will compete for the first time in his ex-Suleman Esuf Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo, while Jamaican Tarik Minott (Fiesta Rally2) completes the class. Hill, Mallalieu, Minott and Read are certain to progress in the 4wd standings, with Stuart Maloney, brother Mark, Jamaica’s Jeff Panton and Britain’s Rob Swann all absent.

  In the BRC Champion Driver title chase, Gregg currently lies sixth with 90 points, just 11 behind Kurt Thompson (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX) and two-time Champion Edward Corbin (Daihatsu Charade), who share the lead with 101 from a perfect score of six class wins in Modified 4 and SuperModified 1 respectively.

  Just five points behind them is Clubman 2 leader Chris Hoad (BimmaCup), who has narrowly missed out on the Champion Driver title twice before, losing in a tie-break to Stuart Maloney in 2021, then finishing third last year. Two more double champions, Neil Corbin (M1 Toyota GT86 CS-R3) and Rhett Watson (SM2 BMW M3) also have scores in the 90s, so this weekend is crucial to staying in the fight.

  Watson has led the 2wd Championship since the start of the year and maintained his advantage after First Citizens King of the Hill and BCIC RB25, despite being beaten by Barry Mayers (SM2 Ford Fiesta) in KotH and his brother Roger (SM2 Toyota WR Starlet) on both days of RB25. The M&M Racing Fiesta is in action this weekend, Mayers and Watson the top two 2wd seeds, but not the Starlet, as Roger fell foul of the holiday season when trying to get his engine tuned following a post-RB25 rebuild.

  With 82 points, Watson has a good cushion over second-placed Neil Corbin (69pts), who has Nigel Reece (SM2 Starlet) and Andrew Jones (SM2 Ford Escort MkII) just a handful of points behind.

  Sunday’s Service Park is at Colleton Plantation Yard, St John, where scrutineering will start at 9.00am and a Briefing Meeting will be held ahead of the 11.00am start. There will be the usual break after the first four runs to allow the stage crews to prepare for the reverse direction, with the event expected to be completed by 5.00pm.

BRC Summer Sprint - Sunday, August 24

2025 BRC Driver’s & Class Championships, rounds 7 & 8 Final running order at August 22:

1 Geoffrey Ullyett (C2 One Fund/RaceBB/Barbados Exotics/BidBB .com/Crown Charters/One Caribbean Estates/King Ocean/Ullyett’s Machine Shop BimmaCup)

2 Kyle Gregg – JAM (FIA R5 York Investments/BD Gregg/Elevated Home Decor Ford Fiesta Rally2)

3 Dane Skeete (WRC Automotive Art/C O Williams Sand & Lime/Sol Subaru Impreza WRC S12)

4 Josh Read (FIA R5 Servall Inc/Stihl/Fig Products/Hankook Batteries/H & B Hardware/Weetabix Ford Fiesta Rally2)

5 Adam Mallalieu (FIA R5 Terra Caribbean/Blue Sky Luxury Ford Fiesta R5)

6 Roger Hill (FIA R5 Mobil 1/Max Meyer/PPG Paints/MotorMac Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo)

7 Kurt Thompson (M4 Glassesco/Bio Beauty Day Spa/NKM Clothing/Realtors Ltd Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX)

8 Barry Mayers (SM2 Chefette/Frosteez/Kooyman/Sign Depot/Hankook/BSC-Essex Freight Ford Fiesta)

9 Rhett Watson (SM2 Chefette/Frosteez/Cargo BGI/Gliptone/Stihl/Hankook/Bajan Pure Water/Motul Motorsport Oils BMW M3)

10 Mark Thompson (M4 Glassesco/Bio Beauty Day Spa/NKM Clothing/Realtors Ltd Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX)

11 Tarik Minott – JAM (FIA R5 Minott Dialysis Supply Ford Fiesta Rally2)

12 Nigel Reece (SM2 Subzero Services Ltd/Hankook/Quality Tyre Plus/Ultrabright LED Solutions/Sign Station Toyota Starlet)

14 Andrew Jones (SM2 Southern Surf Beach Apartments/Gale’s Agro Products/Go On Energy Bars/Weetabix/Tunnock’s Ford Escort MkII)

15 Suleman Esuf (SM2 Express Motors/Munch Hut/Y Esuf Auto Clinic BMW 1M)

16 Neil Corbin (M2 Nassco/Stamina Energy/ColourXL/Auto Solutions/Pressout Performance/Quality Tyre Toyota GT86 CS-R3)

17 Kyle Catwell/ (M4 KFC/BCIC/Chicken Pen Racing/BCR Car Rental/Ellesmere Quarries Audi TT-R)

18 Edward Corbin (SM1 Automotive Art/Valvoline/Pro-Sales/Hilti/Bajan Pure Daihatsu Charmant)

19 Daryl Clarke (SM2 A & A Auto Parts/Roscoe’s Machine Shop Suzuki Swift RS)

20 David St Hill (M3 Tropical Touch/DG Audio BMW M3)

21 Wayne Archer (M3 Archers Hall Design Center/Total Sourcing & Supply/Arrow Woodworking/Arrow Construction BMW)

22 Sean Corbin (M2 Super S/Carters Pitstop/FOXIN/Bajan Pure Water/First Step Security/Westlake/GuavaTech/Gunk/Fabblast Barbados/M&M Tuning BMW 318ti Compact)

23 Michael Worme (M3 BCIC Insurance Services/COT/Camps Auto Services BMW)

24 Neil Thompson (M4 Glassesco/NKM Clothing/Bio Beauty Day Spa/Exclusive Fitness Studio Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX)

25 Calvin Briggs (SM2 Sirrom Lighting/Flying Bell Farm/Piano Tech 246 Ford Sierra)

26 Ross Callender (SM2 Empire Building & Construction/The Tavern Pub Hilti/IPS/Express Motors/Percy King Autos/HEL Performance/Cheese Auto Glass Toyota Starlet)

27 Kevin Armstrong (C3 DS Vroom Car Rent A Car/Armstrong Auto BMW 325i)

28 Robert Ryan Wood (C3 Carters Pitstop/Blue Waters/Caribbean LED Lighting/Hilti/Westlake/Sitemasters/C & A Autobody Repairs/Perkins & Son BimmaCup Too)

29 Roger Jordan/Che Vaughan (SM1 Lucas Oils/Shipsurebb Toyota Starlet)

30 Chris Hoad (C2 Subway/Dasani Water/Lube-X/Westlake/Color XL/Guava Tech BimmaCup)

31 David-Anthony Balgobin (C2 DKK Industrial Supplies/Da-Shem-Rhe Inc BimmaCup)

32 Stewart Gordon - ANT (C2 BimmaCup)

33 Chadane Holder (OC Carnique Transport Inc/Seven Creative Media/City of Bridgetown Credit Union Toyota Starlet)

34 Mark Huggins (OC General Distributors/Ultra Quick/Huggins Auto Shop Daihatsu Charmant)

35 Natya Soodeen (F) (M1 Nescafe/Standard Distribution/Nature’s Discount/Mark's Auto Spares/Servall/Xpex/Antibes Outdoor/Milwaukee/Sparco Peugeot 208 R2)

36 Sean Merritt (OC Seven Creative Media Inc/Stag Beer/Panadol/Boss Tech Auto/Quad Construction/Camps Auto Services Toyota Starlet Turbo)

37 Jayden Thompson (C2 Glassesco/Bio Beauty/NKM Clothing/BC’s Supermarket BimmaCup)

38 Callum Kirton (C2 One Fund/RaceBB/Barbados Exotics/BidBB .com/Crown Charters/One Caribbean Estates/King Ocean/Ullyett’s Machine Shop BimmaCup)

39 Sebastian Thompson (C2 Glassesco/NKM Clothing/Pressure On/SMT Fit/Kristina Creations BimmaCup)

40 Kamal Quimby (C3 Fusionz Auto World/Wilkinson Equipment & Rentals/Mally's Trucking/M&M Engineering Services/Soldierman Trucking & Wrecker Services Trucking BMW)

41 Stephen Nicholls (M1 Siara Farms Nissan March)

42 Andre Corbin (SM1 Corbins Transport & Taxi Service/Fusionz Boutique/Parts Plus/HiSpeed Performance Parts/Dream Chasers Freightliner/Ice-Line Design Toyota Corolla)

43 Antonio Springer (SM1 Trey Vision Video and Photography/Lamar’s Mechanical Service/Prestigious Wheels/Tyrone Driving School Toyota Starlet)

44 Ian Weekes (C1 Ullyett’s Machine Shop/Earth Mother Botanicals Toyota Starlet Glanza)

45 Shawn Brathwaite (C1 Homeomart Barbados/B’s Variety Food Spot Toyota Corolla)

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