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The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship gets under way on Saturday (March 7), with the ARMAG March Safari, which route-setter and reigning Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne says “won't be short of excitement”.

Following the success of the recent Practice Safari, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship gets under way for real on Saturday, March 7, with the March Safari, for which entries are now open.
More than 30 crews turned out for the Practice Safari, which impressed and surprised BRC Assistant Competition Secretary Leslie Alleyne in equal measure: “I was amazed when I drove into the Clay Target Club and saw the number of people who were there - we had 34 vehicles entered, with a total of 91 people spread between them.

The first full year of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) second half-century – 2008 - was described at the Club’s Annual General Meeting last night (February 20) as one of major importance for its future. The BRC started the 2009 season on a high note, with a healthy turn-out of Members hearing a number of positive messages at the Barbados Clay Target Shooting Association Clubhouse at Searles, Christ Church.

Neil Armstrong, one of the rising stars of rallying in the island, is joining forces with the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) to promote its premier event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009, in the UK; the hat-trick BRC Group Champion is entered for the opening round of the Pirelli MSA Gravel Rally Championship, Rallye Sunseeker 2009 (February 27/28), based in the English south coast resort of Bournemouth.