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Eight students from the Oxford Universities Motorsport Foundation (OUMF) are heading across the Atlantic on Tuesday (May 20) on a Virgin Atlantic Airways Boeing 747 to face the challenge of a lifetime - they will compete in Sol Rally Barbados 2008 (May 31/June 1), the region’s biggest annual international motor sport event.

The 89 crews entered for Sol Rally Barbados, the region’s biggest annual international motor sport event, will face some new challenges in 2008, following the organising Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) decision to rethink some elements of its blue riband event, which runs off over the weekend of May 31/June 1.

Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown):
ENG – England; HOL – The Netherlands; IoM – Isle of Man; IRL – The Republic of Ireland; JAM – Jamaica; NIR – Northern Ireland; SCO – Scotland; SVG – St Vincent & The Grenadines; SWE – Sweden; TDAD – Trinidad & Tobago; WAL - Wales

+ group classifications subject to scrutineering of overseas entries

+ driver/co-driver (car) – listed alphabetically by Group

An influx of four-wheel-drive cars from Britain promises to make Sol Rally Barbados 2008 on May 31/June 1 one of the most competitive in the 18-year history of the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) premier event. With the provisional entry list scheduled for publication on Monday, May 12, the Club has already intimated that approaching one-third of the near-capacity entry will run in the top Groups.