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  Two former winners of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event started their preparations for Sol Rally Barbados 2013 in perfect fashion at the weekend. Victories for Jamaica’s Jeff Panton in Trinidad and local ace Paul Bourne in Barbados have kick started two months of debate across the region on the prospects for Sol RB13 (June 1/2).

Three-time Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne and Chris O’Neal in the Simpson Motors/Rimula Lubricants/Spirax Lubricants/Sol Isuzu D-Max won last Saturday’s (March 16) opening round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari and Safari Novice Championships.

Reigning Champion Driver Chris Armstrong and Navigator Wayne Clarke begin their title defence this Saturday (March 16) when the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari and Safari Novice Championships kick off for the 2013 season with the March Safari.   The pair won the opening round of last year’s Championship in their trusty Toyota Hilux and hope to repeat the feat at the weekend . . . but they will face some stiff opposition, including a number of previous Champions from the past decade.

Three-time British and National Rally Champion Steve Perez got back behind the wheel of his ex-Marcus Gronholm Kick Energy Drink Ford Focus WRC07 last weekend for the first time in many months to kick-start the preparations for his eighth attack on Sol Rally Barbados (June 1/2), the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international.   With regular co-driver Paul Spooner, Perez finished fourth and WR1 class-winner in Saturday’s (March 2) Malcolm Wilson Rally, second round of the REIS Get Connected BTRDA Rally Championship, which he won in 2010.