Rally

Nine crews from home and overseas, equalling the biggest entry list for the year, are preparing for what have today (Tuesday) been confirmed as the final three rounds of the 2023 R5 Rally Championship presented by First Citizens. On Saturday (October 21), they will tackle the Motoring Club Barbados Inc (MCBI) Hammertime Double-Header Sprint in the north of the island, with the action switching to the south-east for Sunday’s Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Winter Rally.

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has paid tribute to Jamal Brathwaite, a long-standing competitor and member of its Committee of Management for more than a decade, who was involved in a fatal road accident in the United States in the early hours of Saturday. BRC Chairman Neil Corbin said: "The motorsport community has lost a great man."

Roger Mayers heads into this month's final round of the 2023 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championships leading the Champion Driver title chase, with a 100 per cent record of class wins in SuperModified 2. His total of 105 points gives him a four-point cushion over former two-time Champion Neil Corbin, with Ian Warren just one further point behind.

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) begins rolling out its promotional campaign for Rally Barbados 2024 over the coming weeks with support from Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI). One clubman entrant in the Beatson’s Building Supplies Mull Rally will win a trip to the Caribbean next year, while members of the RB24 organising team are heading to Scotland, Sardinia and South America to promote the event and Motorsport Island.

Jamaica’s Jeff Panton is the new leader of the R5 Rally Championship presented by First Citizens after winning round seven, the Rally of the Sun & Stars on Saturday (September 9). With reigning champion and points-leader Stuart Maloney in action only as co-driver to his brother Mark after his own car had been sold days before the event, Panton turned a seven-point deficit in to a 13-point lead in the Barbados Motoring Federation’s (BMF) flagship national championship with three rounds to go.

The race to win the second season of the R5 Rally Championship, presented by First Citizens, is wide open as competitors from home and away gather in Barbados for Saturday’s (September 9) Rally of the Sun & Stars, the first qualifying round for three months. Running from day into night over 12 stages, the Motoring Club Barbados Inc’s (MCBI) premier event is round seven of 10 in this year’s R5 title chase.

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has announced the dates for the 34th edition of its premier event. Subject to final ratification by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), Rally Barbados 2024 will run from Friday, May 31 to Sunday, June 2, with The Rally Show and King of the Hill, the final shakedown and seeding event, on May 25 and 26.