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Ten of the island's fastest four-wheel-drive cars should provide excitement aplenty as the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) moves into the second half of its 2003 season with the BRC Loose Sprint, to be run at the Vaucluse Raceway on Sunday morning (August 24).

Husband and wife team Leslie and Annalee Alleyne added their names to the roll of honour of the island’s oldest motor sport event on Saturday (June 28), with victory in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) June Safari; Timmy Mahon and Kirk Watkins finished equal third overall to win the event’s Novice Group.
Driving the Autozone/CITGO Mazda B2500, the Alleynes completed the two routes with only 100 penalties, beating another family crew – Biddy Barber and son Brett – into second place; they had collected 300 penalties in the Biddy’s Visitors Information Daihatsu Feroza.

Preparations are now under way for the June Safari, to be run by the Barbados Rally Club on Saturday, June 28. Details were announced this week of a navigational classroom session to answer questions on the types of navigation to be used in the Safari; this will be held at 1.30pm on Saturday, June 21, at Kendal Sporting.

The Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) second one-day Tarmac Rally of the year on Sunday (April 27) may break the deadlock at the head of the championship table. With perfect scores from the first two events, three drivers are currently tied on 32 points - Edward Corbin, Sean Gill and Roger Skeete.