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Six drivers and co-drivers from around the region, Britain and the United States are heading to the island for this weekend’s seventh round of the 2024 Barbados Rally2 Championship sponsored by CIBC Caribbean and Ace H & B Hardware and administered by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF). The talent-studded FIA R5 class in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Winter Rally on Sunday (November 17) will include all but one of the championship’s points-scorers.

Teams and drivers are hard at work preparing for the restart of the 2024 Barbados Rally2 Championship sponsored by CIBC Caribbean and Ace H & B Hardware. After the three-month summer break, competition resumes next Saturday (September 14) with the 13th running of the Motoring Club Barbados Inc (MCBI) Rally of the Sun & Stars.

Josh Read has assumed the lead of the 2024 Barbados Rally2 Championship sponsored by CIBC Caribbean and Ace H & B Hardware after taking maximum points at First Citizens King of the Hill last Sunday (May 26). The Barbadian driver mastered a challenging day of tricky road conditions in his Ford Fiesta R5 to carry a five-point lead into the championship’s marquee event, BCIC Rally Barbados, which starts with two floodlit special stages at Bushy Park Barbados on Friday evening.

Overseas entries for Rally Barbados 2024 (May 31-June 2) are nearing capacity just two months after on-line registrations opened. The provisional entry list passed 50 last weekend with International and Regional entries closing in on maximum numbers, and the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is urging competitors to lodge their entries soon to avoid disappointment.