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Motor sport wins the battle of the elements At the wheel of the Sugar Ultra Lounge Subaru Impreza WRC S9, Dean Serrao displayed great commitment in challenging driving conditions to win the final two rounds of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships on Sunday (October 13) at the double-header BRC Winter Gravel Sprint at Black Bess in St Peter.   It was a day when the weather proved once again that all sides of island motor sport – competitors, spectators and officials – are ready and willing to rise above a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

Britain’s Rob Swann was first in line when entries for Sol Rally Barbados 2014, the Caribbean's biggest annual motor sport international, opened on the official web site - www.rallybarbados.net – on Tuesday (October 1). Returning for his seventh visit, Swann steps back up to WRC-1 with his recently-acquired ex-works Subaru Impreza WRC S11, backed by Waves Hotel and Spa Barbados and Cygnet Plant Ltd.   At Sol RB14, the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) will celebrate the 25th running of its blue riband event.

Audley Croney and son Jeremy won last Sunday’s (September 15) Redlinefuels.com September Safari, setting the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship up for a gripping conclusion. With dropped scores taken into account, Audley’s first victory since returning to competition in 2005 puts them on equal points with Leslie Alleyne and Chris O’Neal, with one round to go.   The win also confirms the Croneys’ place among the island’s top navigational crews; Audley, who had rallied in the 1970s, initially returned with Geoffrey Goddard as Navigator.

Four senior motor sport volunteers from Barbados are flying north this month for training courses organised by the UK’s governing body, the Motor Sports Association (MSA). While designed to increase their personal knowledge about the management of the island’s most popular spectator sport, the courses will also enable them to train officials and competitors in the future.