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Northern Ireland’s Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle won the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009, for the second time last weekend (May 29-31); driving the Digicel/Red Bull/ARMAG Subaru Impreza WRC S9 for the first time, Meeke’s winning margin was 16.75s, almost identical to last year.

Organiser of Sol Rally Barbados, the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event, the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has once again partnered with GeoOrbis to provide vehicle tracking during this weekend’s event, which kicks off with The Ceremonial Start at Simpson Motors between 7.00 and 9.00pm this evening (May 29).

Five former winners are seeded in the top 10 for the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009 (May 29-31); as the final running order was published Wednesday afternoon (May 27) by the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC), last-minute preparations were under way across the island for what promises to be the most competitive in the 20-year history of the event.

Thousands of fans gathered at Stewarts Hill in St Philip on Sunday (May 24) to witness the ‘Sheriff’s promotion to ‘King’, as Roger Skeete powered to victory at Shell V-Power King of the Hill, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) final shakedown before the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009, next weekend (May 29-31).