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Bushy Park, ROC and Terry Grant go back to school

Bushy Park Barbados and the organisers of next weekend’s annual Race Of Champions (December 13/14) have joined forces with world record stunt driver, England’s Terry Grant, who arrived in the island on Tuesday, to reach out to a new generation of motor sport fans . . . and to give something back to the community in the process.

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Robby Gordon brings his Stadium Super Trucks to Barbados

  • The American driver will also bring his mighty Stadium Super Trucks, which are some of the most spectacular vehicles in the sport
  • Gordon joins a ROC 2014 field featuring greats from Formula 1, MotoGP, Le Mans, IndyCar, NASCAR, World Rallycross and Touring Cars
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ROC welcomes 2014 GP2 Champion Jolyon Palmer

  • This year’s GP2 Champion Jolyon Palmer will compete at the 2014 Race Of Champions in Barbados later this month
  • The Englishman dominated the leading Formula 1 feeder series in 2014 with four wins and 12 podiums en route to the title
  • Palmer joins a ROC 2014 field featuring greats from Formula 1, MotoGP, Le Mans, IndyCar, NASCAR, World Rally, Rallycross and Touring Cars
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David Coulthard heads to Barbados for ROC 2014

  • Multiple Formula 1 grand prix winner David Coulthard will compete at the 2014 Race Of Champions in Barbados later this month
  • Coulthard will also partner Williams F1 driver Susie Wolff for Team Scotland in the ROC Nations Cup
  • The pair join a ROC 2014 field featuring greats from Formula 1, MotoGP, Le Mans, IndyCar, NASCAR, World Rally, Rallycross and Touring Cars
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UK WOMEN’S CREW HEAD FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS

Former British Ladies Rally Champion Shelly Taunt, who won Saturday’s Driver of the Day Award at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed, aims to tick one of the boxes on her rallying bucket list when she and co-driver Julie Murphy compete in next year’s 25th Anniversary running of Sol Rally Barbados in their Group N Subaru Impreza.

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BMF applauds Goddard’s F1 debut in Abu Dhabi

After Lewis Hamilton claimed his second FIA Formula 1 World Championship at the spectacular Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi at the weekend, just six months after his crowd-pleasing display at Top Gear Festival Barbados in May, two days of post-season testing resulted in another island connection.

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Participants hail broader benefits of Suzuki Rocks

At a function hosted by Suzuki, motor sport champions from race track and rally stage gathered at the Yacht Club at Port St Charles last week to reflect on the Suzuki ROC Barbados Challenge, which selected the two drivers who will represent Team Barbados in the Race Of Champions at Bushy Park next month (December 13/14).

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BARBADOS RALLY CLUB ANNUAL PRIZE-GIVING 2014 List of Award-winners

BRC Driver’s Championship

The Champion received a voucher for $1,000 from Automotive Art, plus eight cases of Banks beer and two cases of Cockspur Old Gold; each driver received a trophy

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RALLY CLUB CELEBRATES SEASON’S END

Nearly 80 members of the island’s motor sport fraternity were honoured at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Annual Prizegiving on Saturday evening (November 22); more than 100 awards were presented, with successful competitors joined as recipients by sponsors and the Club’s invaluable volunteer marshals, for whom some of the loudest applause was reserved.

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Legend Stig Blomqvist to drive iconic rally car in Barbados

  • rally great Stig Blomqvist returns to the track
  • The 1984 World Rally Champion will get behind the wheel of the classic Audi S1 rally car for a demonstration run at the Bushy Park Circuit
  • This 500bhp+ beast from rallying’s classic Group B era in the Eighties can go from 0-100kmh quicker than a modern-day Formula 1 car
  • The demo will accompany ROC 2014’s action featuring greats from F1, World Rally, Le Mans, MotoGP, IndyCar, NASCAR, Rallycross and Touring Cars

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