LEADING CREWS IN CHAMPIONSHIP DEADLOCK

Preparations are in high gear for the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) next event, the Regional Fire & Security September Safari slated for Sunday, September 21, with two of the island’s most experienced crews jointly leading the 2008 BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship after the first two rounds.
Winners of the Toyo Tires March Safari were 2006 Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne and wife Anna-Lee in their Bridgestone Tires/AutoZone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero iO; they finished ahead of Barry Gale and Neil Barnard – Champion Driver and Navigator in 2005 – in their Mitsubishi L200.
The positions were swapped in the Shelbury Construction June Safari, when Barnard joined grandfather Trevor Gale (winner in 1966) and father David Barnard (1971, 1983 and 1987) on the roll of honour of the island’s longest-standing event. Having finished second, the Alleynes, who are also former winners of ‘The June’, therefore share the championship lead with Barnard and Gale, all with 118 points.
Dominic Brooker and Stephen Dear are respectively third in the driver and navigator tables, and are also currently the highest-placed novice crew in the SDRR Hydraulic & Industrial Spares Inc/Next Generation Electrical Inc/Joe Brooker’s Building Ltd Toyota Hilux; they finished seventh in March, then an impressive third in June.
Experienced rally drivers Sean Dowding and Kirk Watkins are fourth in the Axis Construction Toyota Hilux, having finished sixth and fifth in the season’s first two events; last year’s Champion Novice Driver and Navigator Ryan Corbin and Dustin Edwards are fifth in the Corbin’s Catering Services Ltd/Sweet Temptations Toyota Hilux, 13th and fourth their two results so far.
Entries for round three of the Mud Dogs Safari Championship are now open at McEnearney Quality Inc and will remain open until 2.00pm next Tuesday (September 16); the final chance to enter will be at the briefing meeting, scheduled for the same evening at 7.00pm at the Barbados Clay Target Shooting Association’s Clubhouse at Searles, Christ Church. The entry fee is $30.00 per vehicle, with an additional $40.00 insurance fee per vehicle, although an extra fee of $15.00 per entry will be charged for those who enter at the briefing.
Route-setter for the Regional Fire & Security September Safari is Warrick Eastmond, and the re-checker Kenny Croney. The event will start from Automotive Art, Welches, at 8.00am on Sunday, September 21, and finish at the ‘Dog Pound’, Searles, Christ Church, where a driver challenge will conclude the competition. The event will run over two routes, with a stop-over at Colleton in St John.

BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship
Positions after round 2
Navigators
1st equal Anna-Lee Alleyne (Bridgestone Tires/AutoZone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero iO) & Neil Barnard (Mitsubishi L200), 118points
3rd Stephen Dear (SDRR Hydraulic & Industrial Spares Inc/Next Generation Electrical Inc Toyota Hilux), 104pts
4th Kirk Watkins (Axis Construction Toyota Hilux), 102pts
5th Dustin Edwards (Corbin’s Catering Services Ltd/Sweet Temptations Toyota Hilux), 90pts
6th equal Lisa Roett (Land Rover Defender) & Willie Hinds (Niccolls & Edghill Construction Ltd Jeep Wrangler), 72pts
8th equal Wayne Clarke (Suzuki Samurai) & Tricia King (K & N Equipment Suzuki Samurai), 66pts
10th Warrick Eastmond (Niccolls & Edghill Construction Ltd Suzuki Grand Vitara), 64pts
etc

Drivers
1st Leslie Alleyne (Bridgestone Tires/AutoZone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero iO) & Barry Gale (Mitsubishi L200), 118pts
3rd Dominic Brooker (SDRR Hydraulic & Industrial Spares Inc/Next Generation Electrical Inc Toyota Hilux), 104pts
4th Sean Dowding (Axis Construction Toyota Hilux), 102pts
5th Ryan Corbin (Corbin’s Catering Services Ltd/Sweet Temptations Toyota Hilux), 90pts
6th Christopher Beckley (Essco Mitsubishi Pajero), 86pts
7th Paul Marshall (Mitsubishi L200), 84pts
8th Edson Arthur (Rezults Auto Shop Toyota Hilux), 82pts
9th equal John Sealy (Land Rover Defender) & Michael Ward (Niccolls & Edghill Construction Ltd Jeep Wrangler), 72pts
etc

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