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The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is to mark its 50th Anniversary in 2007 with a month of activities leading up to the annual staging of the island’s longest-running motor sport event – now titled the June Safari, this will be contested over the weekend of June 9/10. Its forerunner, the June Rally, was first staged in 1957 and led directly to the founding of the island’s oldest motor sport Club.

Victory in Sunday’s (November 12) tough final round of the 2006 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship made Andrew Croney the season’s Champion Navigator . . . and he has won the title from the Novice class, holding off some seasoned campaigners.
Sunday’s BRC November Safari was not all plain sailing, either, for Croney and his driver for the event, Derek Gill. At the wheel of his new Suzuki Jimny on its maiden safari, Gill had traction problems on some hills and also suffered a cracked windscreen.

With just one event to run, Leslie and Annalee Alleyne remain at the head of the points standings in the 2006 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship; the last of the four rounds is slated for Sunday, November 12, and a worthy finale to a highly-competitive season is widely anticipated.

Trevor Manning returned to his winning ways on Sunday (October 22) when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) staged the Texaco BRC Gravel Rally . . . but his victory was not enough to prevent Paul Bourne becoming the second Texaco BRC Rally Champion.
Although only 19 cars contested the year’s final rally, a quality entry provided some class action for the large numbers of spectators who lined the two five-kilometre stages at Yorkshire and Guinea, each run four times. The event started and finished at the Vaucluse Raceway, where a prize-giving rounded off the day’s proceedings.