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PANTON “GUTTED” FOR TIVOLI RALLY LOSER SWANN

Jamaican is Champion Driver elect with 100 percent win rate

Jeffrey Panton and Michael Fennell Jnr (Ford Focus WRC06) maintained their 100 percent win rate in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2018 Driver’s and Class Championships in the final round on Saturday (November 24). Even before celebrating victory in the Tivoli Winter Rally, however, the Jamaican was quick to commiserate with Britain’s Rob Swann, whom Panton described as “the better driver today”.

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Rally

Posted on November 25th, 2018.

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TEN OVERSEAS CREWS FOR TIVOLI WINTER RALLY

Roger Mayers returns to action; ‘Pit Bull’ back as Zero Car

Seeded at number one for Saturday’s (November 24) Tivoli Winter Rally, Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton and Michael Fennell Jnr (Ford Focus WRC06) head a list of 10 overseas crews on the 40-car entry for the final round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2018 Driver’s and Class Championships. Ten special stages, five each in daylight then after dark, promise some tight action to end the season, with the Champion Driver title chase and all but two of the 12 class battles still unresolved.

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Rally

Posted on November 23rd, 2018.

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PANTON EASES AHEAD IN RALLY CLUB TITLE CHASE

Class Championships go down to the wire

Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton is the sole leader of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Champion Driver title chase following his brace of victories in last Sunday’s (October 28) Flow Winter Sprint double-header at Stewarts Hill. The BRC Championship is heading for a thrilling finale in the Winter Rally in three week’s time, where an enhanced points structure applies; with no ‘dropped-score’ rule at year-end, every point counts.

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Circuit Racing

RallyCross

Posted on November 3rd, 2018.

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WINNER PANTON PRAISES FLOW SUPER SPRINT FORMAT

Mayers and Skeete top Leader Boards for Rwd and Fwd

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Circuit Racing

RallyCross

Posted on October 30th, 2018.

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ACTION ALL THE WAY AT FLOW SUPERSPRINT FINALE

Barbados Rally Club returns to Stewarts Hill

Motor sport fans can expect an action-packed afternoon of motor sport on Sunday, October 28, when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) returns to the iconic Stewarts Hill speed event course for the first time in six years. With a full-on spectator experience planned in conjunction with the title sponsor, the double-header final rounds of the inaugural Flow SuperSprint Series will make St Philip the day’s first-choice destination.

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Circuit Racing

Posted on October 16th, 2018.

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PANTON WINS AUTOMOTIVE ART SHAKEDOWN STAGES

Close competition augurs well for Flow KotH and Sol RB17

Jamaica’s Jeff Panton and Mike Fennell won Sunday’s (April 23) Automotive Art Shakedown Stages in their Rubis/Sandals Barbados/KIG Ford Focus WRC06, despite a 10-second penalty for a late restart after lunch. The opening round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championships, the 10-stage, 37-kilometre event was the final test before Flow King of the Hill and Sol Rally Barbados, and close competition throughout the field augurs well for a repeat.

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Rally

Posted on April 24th, 2017.

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ROC CARIBBEAN WINNERS FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Team Barbados duo Dane Skeete and Rhett Watson, fresh from their defeat of Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago in last weekend’s (December 13/14) inaugural ROC Caribbean at the annual Race Of Champions, have confirmed their entries for next year’s 25th Anniversary running of Sol Rally Barbados.

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Rally

Posted on December 19th, 2014.

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Team Barbados wins inaugural ROC Caribbean

On a landmark weekend for regional motor sport, in which some of the Caribbean’s best drivers are enjoying a chance to mix with champions from around the world, the home team of Rhett Watson and Dane Skeete won the inaugural ROC Caribbean at Bushy Park Barbados today (Saturday), just hours after fighting their way to a place in the semi-finals of the ROC Nations Cup.

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Circuit Racing

Posted on December 14th, 2014.

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Motor sport legends prepare for the Race Of Champions

Barbados is swarming with legends of motor sport who have arrived on the island ahead of this weekend’s Race Of Champions

Champions and greats from series including F1, Le Mans, IndyCar, NASCAR, WTCC, Touring Cars, World Rallycross and MotoGP put in their first practice laps at Bushy Park Barbados

As they got out of their cars FIA World Rallycross Champion Petter Solberg neatly summed it up: “These guys are all as crazy as I am…”

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Circuit Racing

Posted on December 12th, 2014.

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Participants hail broader benefits of Suzuki Rocks

At a function hosted by Suzuki, motor sport champions from race track and rally stage gathered at the Yacht Club at Port St Charles last week to reflect on the Suzuki ROC Barbados Challenge, which selected the two drivers who will represent Team Barbados in the Race Of Champions at Bushy Park next month (December 13/14).

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Circuit Racing

Posted on November 24th, 2014.