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If he was referring to motorsport, George Bernard Shaw could not have been more accurate.

In the same vein, Thomas Edison got pretty close when he said: "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

Yet every sport must have its rules and regulations, and it becomes more complicated in motorsport, where not only are sporting rules required, but there must also be rules - or regulations - concerning the cars involved.

Britain’s Kevin Procter will mark his 10th appearance in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event in five months’ time, when he lines up for Sol Rally Barbados 2015 at the wheel of his Subaru Impreza WRC S7. His entry is confirmed just days after he won last Sunday’s (December 28) Swift Signs Christmas Stages Rally in the North of England for the sixth time in seven years.

Team Barbados duo Dane Skeete and Rhett Watson, fresh from their defeat of Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago in last weekend’s (December 13/14) inaugural ROC Caribbean at the annual Race Of Champions, have confirmed their entries for next year’s 25th Anniversary running of Sol Rally Barbados.

• Thirteen-time Formula 1 grand prix winner David Coulthard lifts the Race Of Champions trophy for the first time

• Coulthard prevails after a Grand Final win over young Mercedes F1 reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein

• Six-time V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup and this year’s FIA European F3 champion Esteban Ocon make it as far as the semi-finals

• Formula 1’s Romain Grosjean, the reigning ROC Champion of Champions, fails to make it past the group stages this time