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With a full house of eight fastest stage times in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) final rally of the season last Sunday (October 21), Paul ‘Surfer’ Bourne confirmed his position as champion-elect of the 2007 Texaco BRC Rally Championship; he ends the year with 70 points, more than 30 ahead of his closest rival, to retain the title he won for the first time last year.

There's a thrilling finale in prospect for competitors in the 2007 Virgin Atlantic Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s Championship; just three points cover the top five in the standings ahead of the final round, the Texaco Gravel Rally on Sunday (October 21), where competition is expected to be intense.

Novice crew Ryan Corbin and Dustin Edwards in the Corbin's Catering/Sweet Temptations Toyota Hilux beat some experienced practitioners in the art of navigational rallying to win the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) September Safari on Sunday (September 23).
Corbin and Edwards ended the day with 58 penalties, to edge out the experienced Pro crew of Mike Ward and Willie Hinds (Niccolls & Edghill Construction Jeep Wrangler), who incurred 90 penalties to finish second; another novice crew - Wayne Archer and Rhett Watson (Nissan Pickup) – placed third, with 100 penalties.

Since the media release issued yesterday under the above heading, the decision has been made to postpone the August Safari until the weekend of September 22-23 . . . thereby making it the BRC September Safari. The briefing meeting mentioned for tomorrow evening (August 21) will now take place on Tuesday, September 18.
The key reason for the change is that, due to the recent heavy rains island-wide, some areas of the route, which had already been set, are now virtually impassible, or no longer thought to be safe due to slippage.