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England’s Rob Swann and Welsh co-driver Darren Garrod wrote their names on the Caribbean motor sport roll of honour after Rally Jamaica last weekend (December 4/5). By repeating their victory in Group N of Sol Rally Barbados in May, they became the first crew to ‘do the double’ in the same year . . . and they have already signalled their intention to return to Barbados in 2011 to start defending the titles.

Seventy members of the island’s motor sport fraternity were honoured at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Annual Prizegiving on Saturday evening (November 20); awards included return tickets to the UK and all-inclusive ‘staycation’ weekends at the Sea Breeze Beach Hotel, presented by Beverley Layne, marketing co-ordinator of Virgin Atlantic, title sponsor of the BRC Driver’s and Class Championships. Club officials, meanwhile, celebrated an unexpectedly successful season.

Edwards and Corbin are 2010 Mud Dogs Champions The final round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship – the Nassco October Safari – brought the season to a successful conclusion last Sunday (October 17) as “surprised” Novices Adrian Sinckler and Andre Murrell (Suzuki Samurai) became the fifth different winning crew in as many events.

The fifth and final round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship – the Nassco October Safari – provides crews with their last chance to score points in this competitive series on Sunday (October 17).
The first crew will leave the start at the Barbados Clay Target Shooting Association (BCTSA) Club House at Searles, Christ Church, at 8.01am for the first of two routes; the stopover will be at Pool Plantation, St John, at approximately 11.00am, with the finish back at the BCTSA Club House at Searles slated for around 4.00pm.