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A look at the rule book was necessary to settle a dead heat in a very competitive opening round of the new Barbados Rally Club Ruf ’n’ Tuf Navigational Championship on Saturday (March 13). Just 200 penalty points covered the top four finishers after the 160-kilometre event, the leading two crews reaching the finish on the same penalty score of 300.

Reigning Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne and Navigator Chris O’Neal begin their title defence this Sunday (March 16) when the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari and Safari Novice Championships kick off for the 2014 season with the March Safari.

There will be two Sheriffs in town come Sol Rally Barbados 2014, when Scottish driver Brian ‘The Sheriff’ Watson arrives with his Audi quattro S1 and ‘Deputy’, co-driver Caroline Will. The welcoming party at the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international will naturally include Roger ‘The Sheriff’ Skeete, 12-time winner of the island’s premier event.

As Martin ‘Mad-Dale’ Stockdale looks forward to Sol Rally Barbados 2014 and his 14th consecutive year of competition in the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international, he and wife Glenis are also preparing to become first-time grandparents, which has caused the popular BMW driver to reflect on his many trips to the island.