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Huge interest from home and abroad in BCIC RB25

BCIC Rally Barbados 2025 is attracting unprecedented levels of interest, with provisional on-line entries passing the 100 mark this week, two months earlier than last year. BCIC RB24 broke a handful of records, including the number of starters (100) and finishers (67) and organisers are looking forward to another bumper year.

Posted on February 7th, 2025.

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BMF and BRSA join forces to make the roads SAFE

Spurred on by a spate of recent events, the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF) and Barbados Road Safety Association (BRSA) are to join forces in a concerted effort to help lower the accident rate on the island’s roads. Under the acronym SAFE – Safe Arrival For Everyone – the two non-profit organisations will be working to change the mindset of local drivers and promote road safety.

Posted on February 5th, 2025.

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Nagle full of praise for BMF and motor sport volunteers

After a weekend working with volunteers and competitors at Bushy Park, St Philip, two-time Rally Barbados-winning co-driver Paul Nagle flew home to Ireland yesterday (Monday) full of praise for a productive and successful trip to the Barbados Motoring Federation’s (BMF) Motorsport Training Weekend (February 1/2).

Posted on February 4th, 2025.

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Nagle joins local instructors for BMF Training Weekend

Two-time Rally Barbados-winning co-driver, Ireland’s Paul Nagle, will join the Barbados Motoring Federation’s (BMF) instructors for the upcoming Motorsport Training Weekend (February 1/2) at Bushy Park. Nagle and fellow-countryman Kris Meeke won RB08 and RB09, then the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge before graduating to the World Rally Championship, winning five WRC rounds between 2015 and ’17.

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Posted on January 30th, 2025.

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BCIC RB24 winner Maloney places sixth in UK rally

BCIC Rally Barbados 2024 winner and reigning Barbados Rally Club Champion Driver Stuart Maloney finished sixth last Saturday (January 18) in the MGJ Engineering Brands Hatch Winter Stages, fourth of nine rounds in the UK’s Protyre Circuit Rally Championship (CRC). The event was won by 2023/24 CRC Champion Michael Igoe, with former Champions Barry Morris, John Griffiths and Chris West, plus current points-leader John Stone the only other drivers to beat Maloney.

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Posted on January 24th, 2025.

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World Championship prize for motorsport marshals

One island motorsport volunteer will be rewarded for his or her commitment to the sport with a once-in-a-lifetime trip to work as an official marshal at a World Championship event in 2026. The new scheme, administered by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), was announced at BMF Marshals Day at Bushy Park on Sunday (January 19).

Posted on January 20th, 2025.

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Plans for BCIC Rally Barbados 2025 well under way

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is well advanced in its planning for BCIC Rally Barbados 2025, with over four months to run before the 35th edition of its premier event. Giving an update this week, Event Director Neil Barnard expressed satisfaction with progress so far, emphasising the importance of the adage ‘If you fail to plan - you plan to fail’.

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Posted on January 17th, 2025.

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Former T&T champ opens regional entry for BCIC RB25

Former Champion Driver of the Trinidad & Tobago Rally Club (TTRC) Ryan Pinheiro is the first regional entry confirmed for BCIC Rally Barbados 2025 (May 30-June 1). Following a comprehensive rebuild over the past year, he will campaign the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V in which he won the TTRC title and Rally Trinidad in 2018.

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Posted on January 10th, 2025.

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Swann and Woodburn planning early for BCIC RB25

Fresh from his second consecutive win on the Rixy Stages, the last rally of the year in the UK on Sunday (December 29), Rob Swann has confirmed his participation in BCIC Rally Barbados 2025. Having finished second four times, he is as determined as ever to win the island’s premier event on his 17th visit, campaigning his Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo in the FIA R5 class with co-driver Tom Woodburn.

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Posted on January 3rd, 2025.

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Hinkson wins his third Esports Rally2 title

Mark-Anthony Hinkson has won the 2024 Esports Rally2 Championship, victory in the final round (December 13-15) confirming his third consecutive crown. Driving a Skoda Fabia RS Rally2, the car of choice for most of this year’s participants, he won three of the four rounds run monthly since September.

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Posted on December 23rd, 2024.