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Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton (Rubis / Sandals / KIG Ford Focus WRC06) is top seed for tomorrow’s (Saturday) Carter’s Pit Stop / Power King Batteries Summer Sun & Stars Rally, heading an entry list of nearly 30 for the combined Barbados Rally Club (BRC) and Motoring Club (MCBI) event. A further 10 cars will run ahead of the main field in the Barbados Historic Rally, organised by the Vaucluse Raceway Motor Sport Club (VR-MSC).

Bouyed by the record-breaking world-wide response to this year’s 25th Anniversary of the first running of its International All-Stage Rally in 1990, the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has today (August 14) announced the dates for next year. Sol Rally Barbados 2016 will run from Friday to Sunday, June 3-5, with Scrutineering and King of the Hill the previous weekend, May 28/29. On-line entries will open on the official web site - www.rallybarbados.net – on October 1.

The cream of the region’s motor sport stars are preparing for Bushy Park Barbados next month, when the circuit hosts the Williams Industries Digicel International Race Meet (September 12/13). Round three of the 2015 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) is the headline event of an action-packed schedule, with approaching 12 hours of track activity on Sunday alone.

The Barbados Association of Dragsters & Drifters (BADD) will return to the much-favoured day/night format at Bushy Park on Sunday (July 5), when it stages Summernight Warz, round two of the club’s 2015 Drag Warz series - slated to start at 3.30pm, it will run into the night to a finish time of around 8.00pm, with Practice in the afternoon, Qualifying just before sundown and the Eliminations under floodlights.