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SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2014 DATES ANNOUNCED

Sol Rally Barbados reaches an important milestone in 2014, when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) celebrates the 25th running of its blue riband event. Subject to final ratification by the island’s governing body, the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), Sol RB14 will run on Saturday and Sunday, May 31/June 1, with Scrutineering and Scotiabank King of the Hill the previous weekend, May 24/25.   On-line entries for the Caribbean's biggest annual motor sport international will open on the official web site - www.rallybarbados.net – on October 1.

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ARMSTRONG WINS SUMMER NIGHTS TARMAC SPRINT

With changeable weather conditions making life tough for the 40-strong field, Neil Armstrong (Monster/Sol/Chefette/Digicel/Virgin Atlantic/Gunk/Hankook Tyres/Redline Fuels/Simpson Finance/Simpson Motors Suzuki SX4 WRC) triumphed in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Summer Nights Tarmac Sprint on Saturday evening (August 17).   The Hangman’s Hill to Lion Castle stage offered drivers a different challenge on each of the four runs – dry for practice, wet for the first official run, damp for the second, almost completely dry for the final.

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FORTY ENTRIES FOR SUMMER NIGHTS TARMAC SPRINT

An impressive 40 entries have been received for tomorrow’s (Saturday, August 17) Summer Nights Tarmac Sprint, including all the leading challengers in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships. The battle for points resumes after a seven-week break, with four rounds to go.

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ENTRIES OPEN FOR SUMMER NIGHTS TARMAC SPRINT

After a break of seven weeks, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2013 calendar resumes on Saturday, August 17, with the BRC Summer Nights Tarmac Sprint. Originally planned as a tarmac special stage rally, the seventh of 10 rounds of the Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships will now be a night-time speed event.   Entries opened at Motorsport Services in Haggatt Hall today (August 7), and will close at noon on Friday, August 16.

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SUCCESSFUL EVALUATION FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Rallies around the world could learn some lessons from key elements of Sol Rally Barbados, according to Sue Sanders, International Training Programme Manager of the Motor Sports Association (MSA), Britain’s governing body. Invited by the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) to observe this year’s 24th running of the Club’s blue riband event, Sanders has recently delivered a detailed evaluation, the first of its type carried out in the region.   In her summary, Sanders wrote: “The event is a credit to the Barbados Rally Club.

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ROACH AND WATSON SHARE VIRGIN ATLANTIC LEAD

Conor Roach and Rhett Watson have eased ahead in the hunt for the coveted Champion Driver title in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Championship, despite not having everything their own way in their respective classes at Scotiabank King of the Hill (May 26) and Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2).   Meanwhile, the BRC continues to enjoy growing competitor numbers – 69 local drivers have participated in VA Championship events so far this season, compared with 63 by the same point last year and 57 in 2011, an increase of around 10 per cent year on year.

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RECORD FOR CLARKE IN SOL GO FURTHER JUNE SAFARI

Navigator Wayne Clarke rewrote the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) history books for the second time in four years in last weekend’s (June 29/30) Sol Go Further June Safari, when he became the first six-time winner of the region’s oldest motor sport event with a continuous history. His fourth success with driver Chris Armstrong came more than 20 years after the first of his two victories as navigator to Don Hunte, in 1991, and moves him one win ahead of Leslie Alleyne, who had drawn level on five last year.

SOL GO FURTHER JUNE SAFARI A TEST OF ENDURANCE

Final preparations are being made island-wide for the longest event in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, the Sol Go Further June Safari. The first of 25 crews will depart Sol Redman's Village at 3.01pm on Saturday (June 29) for an 18-hour test of endurance, which will take competitors to some of the island’s most scenic locations. Title sponsor of the BRC’s blue riband event, Rally Barbados, for the past six years, Sol first supported the June Safari in 2012, and has stepped up it’s commitment this year.

‘SCENIC’ ROUTE FOR SOL GO FURTHER JUNE SAFARI

Crews preparing for the Sol Go Further June Safari (June 29/30), round three of the 2013 Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, can look forward to a scenic journey around the island, as the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) marks the 57th running of the Caribbean’s oldest motor sport event with a continuous history.

BIRD CLAIMS HIS SECOND SOL RALLY BARBADOS WIN

Former UK National Rally Champion Paul Bird successfully defended his Sol Rally Barbados title at the weekend (June 1/2), crowning a remarkable record in his six years contesting the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International. Second on his first two visits, third twice and now a back-to-back winner, he is also the only driver to have finished on the podium of the island’s premier event six times in a row.

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