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Forty regional race-car drivers and bikers are making final preparations for next weekend’s (September 12/13) third round of the 2015 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC). Competitors will travel from the Cayman Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, St Vincent & The Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago to take part in the Williams Industries Digicel International Race Meet at Bushy Park Barbados.

Bushy Park Circuit Inc (BPCI) is continuing its phased investment programme at the St Philip facility for the benefit of competitors, spectators and volunteers. The most recent enhancements will come on stream for the first time at the Williams Industries Digicel International Race Meet (September 12/13), featuring round three of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC).

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.