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The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac Rally on Sunday (April 22) has attracted an entry described by organisers as “phenomenal”, promising a day of superb entertainment for the many thousands of fans who are expected to make their way to the island’s south-east parishes.

Trevor ‘Electric Micey’ Manning is geared up for a season of hot motor sport competition in 2007. Despite losing out to Paul Bourne in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) March Gravel Stages last Sunday (March 11), Manning remains upbeat about the prospects for the season.
Speaking mid-week, he said: “I think this is going to be a fantastic season. Paul and I are right on it, and I’m looking forward to the competition. Its one-nil to Paul at the moment, after last weekend, but I’m aiming to turn that round in the weeks to come, starting at Luke Hill.

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 50th Anniversary season looks set to be a vintage one, with a quality entry received for the BRC March Gravel Stages, the opening round of the Texaco BRC Rally Championship this Sunday (March 11); the first rally action in the island for more than four months, the event is eagerly anticipated by competitors and spectators alike.

More than half the 36 crews entered for the Toyo Tires February Safari on Sunday (February 11) are in the novice class, promising further continued growth in the sport of navigational rallying; it is the first round of the 2007 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Safari Championship and launches the Club’s 50th Anniversary season.