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The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is stepping up its marketing and promotion campaign for Sol Rally Barbados 2011 (June 4/5) this week, with confirmation of extensive coverage – and reader competitions – in a cross-section of motoring and lifestyle publications in the UK and Ireland. Supported by the Tourism Development Corporation (TDC), this initiative brings the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international - and the island which hosts it – to the attention of nearly 1.5 million readers, a large percentage of them in affluent and influential market sectors.

Regional interest in Sol Rally Barbados (June 4/5, 2011), the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international, remains high. Two returnees from Trinidad & Tobago, one a former National Champion, are among the early entries received on-line at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) official event web site, www.rallybarbados.bb.

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has joined forces with the London office of the Barbados Tourism Authority (BTA) to stage a major promotion for Sol Rally Barbados 2011 at Rallye Sunseeker International next month (February 25/26); based in the British south coast resorts of Bournemouth and Poole, it is for the first time the opening round of the Dulux Trade MSA British Rally Championship.

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.