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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.

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.

The 2009 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships reach their conclusion on Sunday (October 25) with the BRC Winter Rally . . . and the island’s fans are expected to turn out in their numbers for the 12-stage event, their last chance this season to see their heroes in action on home soil.

Many an internet forum argument will be settled – and a few more started, no doubt - when the island’s four leading car and driver combinations go head-to-head on Sunday (October 18) in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Autumn Gravel Stages, penultimate round of the Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s and Class Championships.