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Win a Hot Lap with the Stig at the Top Gear Festival!

A hot lap with the Stig round the new Bushy Park? Yes please!

"Some say he was born in Boscobel, invented souse and used to drive a ZR….all we know is that he is coming to Barbados!"

Details over on the Top Gear Festival website on how to win a ride...

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Spring Blaze Results

"As per ASR item 18:  all competitors must be given the opportunity to contest at lease two official timed runs.

In this instance, the course had to be closed before all competitors were afforded this opportunity and only one timed run was recorded In light of this the organiser have decided to cancel the second running of this stage, Blackman’s To Tappy Pond.

Yours in Motor Sport

David Williams
Clerk Of Course"

Results can be downloaded below.

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Lewis Hamilton to drive F1 car in Barbados

Announced today, as expected, Lewis Hamilton will be driving a Formula 1 car around the Bushy Park circuit at the Top Gear Festival in May. 

Even better for those who like noise, it is the F1 W04 - the 2013 screaming V8 car!

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Spring Blaze News: Ian Warren in huge crash, Maloney's engine gone on first event

While official results are being confirmed, the news from the event centres around Ian 'Wee Wee' Warren's nightmare crash in the second-half of the event. Running from Blackman's to Tappy Pond and locked in an epic battle with Josh Read, Ian Warren drifted slightly wide in his Suzuki Swift and cut down a telegraph pole at the side of the road.

There is a video on Facebook of the actual accident.

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IRISH DRIVER OF THE YEAR FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

One of Northern Ireland’s most flamboyant – and successful – rear-wheel-drive exponents, Frank Kelly, will rally in the Caribbean twice in 2014, to experience both gravel and tarmac events. Tomorrow (Saturday), he flies south to prepare for the flowing loose-surface stages of Rally Trinidad the following weekend, and will return just a few weeks later to compete in the region’s biggest annual motor sport international, Sol Rally Barbados.

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CHEFETTE MUDDOGS CHAMPIONS CLAIM ROUND ONE

Victory in Sunday’s (March 16) opening round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, the March Safari, has given reigning Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne and Navigator Chris O’Neal a perfect start to their title defence . . . but it was not plain sailing, even for such an experienced crew.

Eddie Jordan to feature in Top Gear Festival, Barbados

Announced today on the Top Gear Festival, Barbados website - former Formula 1 team owner and current television host Eddie Jordan will joining the line-up of presenters.

New Body setup to enhance regional motor racing

Motor racing across the Caribbean is anticipated to experience a more professional setup following a recent arrangement which saw the creation of the Caribbean Motor Racing Association (CMRA).

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Maloney's new Peugot 306

Photos posted to Facebook and by Zhaust show a new arrival in Barbados - a works Peugot 306 Maxi. Arriving by air, courtesy of Virgin Atlantic, this is surely destined for the Maloney camp. This will make quite an interesting addition to the already hard-fought Super-Modified 10 (or will it be 11?) class.

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DEAD HEAT IN RUF ’n’ TUF NAVIGATIONAL EVENT

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.

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