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Neil Corbin and Roger Mayers are joint leaders of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Champion Driver title chase after four out of seven rounds. With more than 60 drivers having now scored points in the 2023 Driver’s and Class Championships, there are some new names in the top 10 and some close battles brewing in the classes as the season passes the half-way point.

The holiday season is now under way and the Sectus Technologies Barbados Karting Association (BKA) Championship is set for a shake-up. A number of front-runners are missing from the entry list for round three, the Crane & Equipment Raceday, which will run off at Bushy Park Barbados this Sunday (July 2).

  Among the absentees are reigning Champion Driver Calem Maloney, who leads the 125cc Lights class and the overall standings this year, and the Mayers cousins Zak and Jacob, who are first and third respectively in the 60cc Cadet class.

President of the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF) Senator Andrew Mallalieu and Treasurer Jeanne Crawford attended last week’s (June 20-22) annual Conference of the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) held in the Andalucia region of Spain. The world governing body is committed to bringing enhanced value to FIA Clubs, also empower the regions and increase motor sport participation, and decisions were made that will benefit the sport in Barbados and the wider Caribbean.

Reigning Champion Stuart Maloney of Barbados heads into the summer break leading the 2023 R5 Rally Championship, presented by First Citizens, by a slender seven points from Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton following the season’s marquee events, First Citizens King of the Hill (June 4) and Sol Rally Barbados (June 9-11). With four scoring rounds run, the island’s first-ever national motor sport championship, administered by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), is now on pause until round seven in early September.