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More than 30 competitors are entered for the second round of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships tomorrow (March 22), among them Trevor Manning, whose first outing in the ex-Roger Skeete Ford Escort WRC is eagerly awaited by island fans.
The BRC Spring Gravel Sprint, which will be run on the popular stage at Searles, Christ Church, is slated for a 9.00am start; competitors, who will be based in the Searles Factory Yard, will tackle four official timed runs.

Winner of Group N in Sol Rally Barbados 2008, Britain’s Ryan Champion, will this year step up to Group A when he ships a recently-restored example of the iconic Subaru Impreza 555 to the island for the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 20th running of its blue riband event over the last weekend of May.

With nearly eight weeks to go until entries close for the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009, the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is already more than half-way to its maximum starting list of 90 crews. Entries close on May 1, four weeks in advance of the 20th running of the BRC’s blue riband event.

Double Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Group N Champion Neil Armstrong and Rally Barbados 2005 winning co-driver Max Ferri finished 17th overall and ninth in Group N on Rallye Sunseeker, the opening round of the UK’s Pirelli MSA Gravel Rally Championship, which finished in the English south coast resort of Bournemouth yesterday (February 28).