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Shake-up for 2017 Rally Club Championship

A new spectator-focussed Rally Show, a revised format for Scrutineering and a change of location for ‘Rally Central’ - the secure facility and workshop that plays host to the majority of visiting crews - are among changes for Sol Rally Barbados 2017 confirmed in outline today (January 28) by the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC).

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championship will have a new look for its 60th Anniversary year in 2017, with a later start to the season and a different spread of events across the calendar. Further changes to the individual format of events and the points-scoring system remain a work in progress, following discussions during a wide-ranging Members Meeting last evening (January 17) at the Barbados Clay Target Shooting Association (BCTSA) Clubhouse, Searles, Christ Church.

Barbados Rally Club “represented very well”

The Sol Rally Barbados stand at Europe's largest motor sport show, Autosport International (ASI), has been a hive of activity over the past four days (January 12-15). Competitors past, present and future have been showing their support for the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International, while a host of spectators registered with tour specialists Rally Travel, hoping to win an Official Spectator Package to Sol RB17.

Procter thwarted chasing sixth straight Croft win

Irish motor sport enthusiast Kevin Flanagan will participate in Sol Rally Barbados 2017 (June 2-4), just two years after he was first introduced to the island by winning a Prize Trip in a draw for volunteer marshals on the Circuit of Ireland. And next Thursday (January 12), Flanagan will be among the first visitors to the Sol RB17 stand at Autosport International (ASI) in the UK, where the event is exhibiting for the first time.