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Reigning Champion Paul Bourne opened his 2008 account with victory in Sunday’s Automotive Art Shakedown Stages, the first round of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Rally Championship. With regular co-driver Stuart Maloney alongside in his Subaru Impreza WRC S9, he was fastest on all but one of the 11 stages, claiming victory by a comfortable margin of more than one minute.

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship is set for a vintage year, if the comments following last Saturday’s (March 8) opening round are any guide. At Tuesday night’s Prizegiving, competitors variously described the Toyo Tires March Safari as “a brilliant piece of route-setting”, “a wicked event” and “very tough from the navigational perspective.”

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2008 Championship season gets under way on Sunday (March 2) with a Gravel Sprint on the popular course at Yorkshire and Searles in Christchurch; the event is the first event in the BRC’s restructured championship and is slated to start at 9.00am.
Following early-morning scrutineering and a ‘drive-through’ at 8.30am, there will be one practice run and three official timed runs; the course covers seven kilometres and, although the same venue was used by the Club last year, there are changes from the previous configuration.

Double Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s Champion Adrian Linton was missing from last Friday’s (November 23) Annual Prizegiving at the BCTSA Clubhouse. While wife and regular co-driver Jackie received the trophy marking his second consecutive victory in Modified 7 on his behalf, Linton was already on a flight across the Atlantic.