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Victory in Sunday’s (April 22) Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac has given Paul Bourne a healthy lead in this year’s Texaco BRC Rally Championship; with co-driver Stuart Maloney in the Subaru Impreza WRC, Bourne was fastest on all but one of the nine stages run, winning by a margin of 25 seconds . . . and now leads the Championship standings by 12 points.

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac Rally on Sunday (April 22) has attracted an entry described by organisers as “phenomenal”, promising a day of superb entertainment for the many thousands of fans who are expected to make their way to the island’s south-east parishes.

Trevor ‘Electric Micey’ Manning is geared up for a season of hot motor sport competition in 2007. Despite losing out to Paul Bourne in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) March Gravel Stages last Sunday (March 11), Manning remains upbeat about the prospects for the season.
Speaking mid-week, he said: “I think this is going to be a fantastic season. Paul and I are right on it, and I’m looking forward to the competition. Its one-nil to Paul at the moment, after last weekend, but I’m aiming to turn that round in the weeks to come, starting at Luke Hill.

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 50th Anniversary season looks set to be a vintage one, with a quality entry received for the BRC March Gravel Stages, the opening round of the Texaco BRC Rally Championship this Sunday (March 11); the first rally action in the island for more than four months, the event is eagerly anticipated by competitors and spectators alike.