Thousands of fans gathered at Stewarts Hill in St Philip on Sunday (May 24) to witness the ‘Sheriff’s promotion to ‘King’, as Roger Skeete powered to victory at Shell V-Power King of the Hill, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) final shakedown before the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009, next weekend (May 29-31).
Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown): ENG – England; IRL – The Republic of Ireland; JAM – Jamaica; NED – The Netherlands; NIR – Northern Ireland; SCO – Scotland; TDAD – Trinidad & Tobago; WAL - Wales
The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) final shakedown before the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009 (May 29-31), looks set to offer the island’s thousands of motor sport fans a spectacle nearly as good as the ‘main event’, with live coverage all day on the Giant Daylight Screen.
The most recent World Rally Car ever to arrive in the Caribbean touched down at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados shortly after 1.00pm today (May 20) in the cargo hold of a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747, which was also carrying a large contingent of competitors and supporters heading for Sol Rally Barbados 2009, the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event.
Local crowd favourite Jonathan Still is gunning for a hat-trick of wins in the island’s SuperModified 11 category when Sol Rally Barbados 2009, the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event, runs off on May 29-31 . . . but he faces the strongest field the class has ever attracted.
Since the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC) published the provisional entry list for Sol Rally Barbados 2009 on Monday (May 11), the main focus on the popular internet chat rooms in the island and around the region has been on who will claim outright victory in the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event.
Following the most comprehensive re-assessment since 2003 of the route for Sol Rally Barbados, the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is targetting three key benefits from this year’s 20th running of the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport event: a refreshing change in the challenge for competitors, a better spectator experience and a continued lessening of disruption for residents along the route.
some classifications subject to scrutineering of overseas entries + list is provisional and includes reserves
+ driver/co-driver (car) – listed alphabetically by class
Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown): ENG – England; IRL – The Republic of Ireland; JAM – Jamaica; NED – The Netherlands; NIR – Northern Ireland; SCO – Scotland; TDAD – Trinidad & Tobago; WAL - Wales
