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Josh Read and Mark Jordan laid down an early marker for BCIC Rally Barbados 2026 with a measured victory in Sunday’s (March 29) Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Shakedown Stages. Although others set the fastest stage times, they kept their Ford Fiesta Rally2 ahead from the second of nine special stages, winning by exactly two seconds.

After six drivers have variously shared the overall lead of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s Championship this season, Kurt Thompson will head into next month’s final round as the first exclusive leader of the standings. In a very strong year for local rallying, more than 80 drivers have scored points, with the title to be decided at the BRC Winter Rally on October 26.

A record 122 cars from 14 countries will contest BCIC Rally Barbados (May 30-June 1), which starts under floodlights at Bushy Park in St Philip tomorrow evening (Friday). Last year’s winners Stuart Maloney and Kristian Yearwood are seeded at number one for the 35th edition of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event, which lists nearly 100 overseas drivers and co-drivers on the running order, published at last evening’s (Wednesday) Briefing Meeting at Savvy on the Bay, Bridgetown.

After a day-long battle with winning margins logged in just tenths or hundredths of a second, Stuart Maloney snatched victory in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Shakedown Stages on Sunday (April 6). Less than 10 seconds covered the top four at the finish, as Jamaica’s Kyle Gregg and Jeff Panton deprived early rally leader, Britain’s Rob Swann, of a podium finish and the leading contenders gained some valuable pointers head of BCIC Rally Barbados 2025.