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The Barbados Rally Club's first Tarmac Rally of the season, slated for a 9.00am start at the Vaucluse Raceway on Sunday (April 4), is being used by the organising team as a shakedown for Rally Barbados.
The event will comprise 12 stages at three venues, Orange Hill, Diamond Corner and Dark Hole, with a service halt at Vaucluse between each group of three stages; after the lunch halt, scheduled for 12.15pm, the stages will run in the reverse direction, with the finish at 4.15pm, back at Vaucluse.

Following on from its determined efforts to revive navigational rallying last year, the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has secured sponsorship for a fully-fledged championship in 2004.
The BRC Ruf ’n’ Tuf Navigational Championship will comprise four rounds, the first catering for cars and 4 x 4 vehicles, the remaining events restricted to 4 x 4s; the opening round will take place this Saturday, March 13, following a briefing meeting on Tuesday evening (March 9) at Kendall Sporting.

Just 3.5 seconds covered the top four in a close-fought finish to the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) first event of the new season, Saturday’s (Feb 14) night-time Tarmac Hill Sprint from Mapps in St Philip to Stewart Hill. While it is rare for the BRC to run a speed event in darkness, the format appealed to spectators, many hundreds of whom lined the 4.5-kilometre course for their first taste of action in 2004.

Front-running rally driver Roger Mayers and father Stephen dominated the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 4 x 4 Safari on Saturday (November 22), beating the opposition – and some tough conditions – to claim their second off-road event of the year; they had won the opening event of the season in March.