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RECORD MEDIA COVERAGE FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Record worldwide media coverage of Sol Rally Barbados in 2009 is already helping to kick-start interest in the 2010 event, which marks the 20th Anniversary of the inaugural running of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) International All-Stage Rally; since the BRC confirmed Anniversary incentives for overseas crews last week, there has been an upsurge in interest, particularly in the UK and Ireland.

PREVIOUS WINNERS

1990 to 2009

Rally Barbados
2009 Kris Meeke - NIR/Paul Nagle - NIR, Subaru Impreza WRC S9, 55m 11.84s
2008 Kris Meeke - NIR/Paul Nagle - NIR, Toyota Corolla WRC, 1h 00m 00.06s
2007 Paul Bourne/Stuart Maloney, Subaru Impreza WRC S9, 57m 34.36s
2006 Gary Gregg - JAM/Hugh Hutchinson - JAM, Ford Focus WRC02, 51m 57.89s
2005 Roger Mayers/Max Ferri, Ford Focus WRC, 58m 46.99s
2004 Roger Skeete/Dave Crawford - ENG, Ford Escort WRC, 1h 03m 04.48s
2003 Paul Bourne/Louis Venezia, Subaru Impreza WRC, 1h 21m 05.43s

ANNIVERSARY INCENTIVES FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

More than 70 European competitors stand to benefit from incentives announced today (December 18) by the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) to celebrate the 20th Anniversary running of its blue riband event: Sol Rally Barbados 2010 is scheduled for May 28 to 30, with the Shell V-Power King of the Hill ‘shakedown’ the previous Sunday, May 23.

RALLY CLUB CELEBRATES SEASON’S END

More than 70 members of the island’s motor sport fraternity were honoured on Friday evening (November 20) at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Annual Prize-giving; the awards included 14 return tickets to the UK, presented by Rachel Pilgrim, marketing manager of Virgin Atlantic, title sponsor of the BRC Driver’s and Class Championships.

WARREN AND WHITE ARE 2009 MUD DOGS CHAMPIONS

Former Novice Champions Dustin Edwards and Ryan Corbin ended their Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship season on a high, winning the Nassco November Safari on Sunday (November 15) . . . and they brought a smile to the sponsor’s face as well, as they won in their Blockman/SDRR Hydraulics/Crane & Equipments Toyota Hilux!

FINAL SHOWDOWN FOR THE MUD DOGS

Competitors are making final preparations ahead of Sunday’s (November 15) Nassco November Safari, the fourth and final round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship; more than 20 crews were entered by last night’s (Tuesday) Briefing Meeting, with none of the leading points-scorers missing.

RALLY CLUB COMPETITOR NUMBERS ON THE INCREASE

Nearly 80 drivers scored points in the 2009 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships, a 10 per cent increase on the previous year, and nearly double the number who scored in BRC events as recently as 2003; not only was there quantity, but quality, too, with both the Driver’s and Overall Class Champions settled at the final round, the latter decided by a tie-break.

MUD DOGS LOOK FORWARD TO FINAL BATTLE

Just two weeks after island motor sport fans enjoyed last Sunday’s final gravel rally of the season, competitors in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship are heading for their final showdown. The Nassco November Safari on Sunday, November 15, offers crews their last chance to score points and settle whose names will be inscribed on the 2009 trophies.

BOURNE AND NOEL WIN RALLY CLUB TITLES

The curtain came down on the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s and Class Championships in dramatic fashion on Sunday (November 1). Victory by a margin of 13.6 seconds in the BRC Winter Rally clinched the Driver’s Championship for Paul Bourne (Banks/LIME/Virgin Atlantic Ford Focus WRC07), while Geoff Noel (Globe Finance/DeWalt Tools/Essco/Sunbeach/Automotive Art Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX) is the Overall Class Champion.

LAST CHANCE SALOON FOR TITLE CONTENDERS

Island rally fans, disappointed when a suspension problem prevented Roger Skeete’s participation in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) recent Autumn Gravel Stages event, will finally get chance to see him in action on the loose in his Michelin/Da Costa Mannings Auto Centre/Warrens Motors Subaru Impreza WRC S12 this Sunday (November 1).

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