The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is going back to grass roots to provide a sounder grounding for its current and future competitors, an increasing number of whom are travelling overseas to experience international competition. It has added to its calendar the BRC Navigational Test, replacing the 4 x 4 Safari slated to run on Saturday, March 29.
Roger ‘The Sheriff’ Skeete and co-driver Dave Crawford tightened their grip on the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Drivers Championship on Sunday; they followed their win in last month’s Cherry Tree Hill Tarmac Sprint with a dominant performance in the BRC Tarmac Rally, run over 12 stages in the north of the island.
Trevor ‘Electric Micey’ Manning and 2002 double champion Adrian Linton return to motor sport action on Sunday (March 16), as the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) organises its first one-day tarmac rally of the season; when entries closed on Wednesday evening, 30 cars were on the list.
Former champion Roger Skeete has started the 2003 motor sport season on top form. He comfortably won the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) opening event of the season, the Tarmac Hill Sprint at Cherry Tree Hill on Sunday (February 9), beating the opposition by the best part of two seconds. Driving the Texaco/Michelin/McEnearney Quality/Consolidated Finance/Carib Ford Escort WRC, Skeete recorded a time of 1m 24.347s on the last of his three official runs; his closest rival, Paul Bourne, could manage only 1:26.277 in the Banks/Pirelli/Texaco/Williams Industries Subaru Impreza WRC.
The eye-catching new Automotive Art/Shell Helix/McEnearney Quality Ford Focus WRC of Roger Mayers heads the 30-car entry list for the first event of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2003 motor sport season tomorrow (Sunday, February 9). The Tarmac Hill Sprint, scheduled for an 0800hrs start at Cherry Tree Hill, will give fans their first chance to see a number of new car/driver combinations in action against the clock, plus some familiar machines with new paint jobs; in addition to the Mayers Focus, the list includes:
Roger Mayers and regular co-driver Max Ferri carried the Automotive Art/Mix 96.9 FM Ford Escort Cosworth WRC to victory in the Barbados Rally Club's final loose event of the season, the all-stage rally at Kendal, Guinea and Black Bess on Sunday (November 24). Mayers took the initiative from the start and remained dominant throughout, fastest on every one of the 11 stages run; at each venue, the stage was once twice in each direction, except Guinea, where the final run in the reverse direction was cancelled after the surface had deteriorated significantly.
Roger Mayers and regular co-driver Max Ferri carried the Automotive Art/Mix 96.9 FM Ford Escort Cosworth WRC to victory in the Barbados Rally Club's final loose event of the season, the all-stage rally at Kendal, Guinea and Black Bess on Sunday. Results below - full report to follow . . .
Rising young star Roger Mayers and the experienced Richard Roett head the running order, confirmed today (Saturday), for the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) final loose-surface event of the BRC's 2002 Autozone/LAW Motors Championship on Sunday (November 24). The 12-stage event, scheduled to start at 0800hrs, will visit the popular Kendal and Guinea venues in the morning, with the final four stages run at the Black Bess Plantation in the afternoon. Each stage venue will run twice in each direction, with the cars scheduled to reach Black Bess shortly after 12 noon.
Barbados motor sport fans will finally see the long-awaited loose surface showdown between the island's four hottest drivers on Sunday (November 3), when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) runs its rescheduled 2002 Autozone/LAW Motors Championship event at the Black Bess Plantation, starting at 0800hrs.
