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Victory in last weekend’s 2005 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) 4 x 4 June Safari (June 18/19) has promoted Derek Gill and Kevyn Yearwood to the head of the driver and navigator standings respectively in the BRC 4 x 4 Navigational Championship. It was the 48th running of the island’s oldest organised motor sport event, which started life as the June Rally.

Thanks to his winning performance on last month’s Rally Barbados 2005, Roger Mayers has pushed Trevor Manning off the top of the standings in the Texaco Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Rally Championship; with one round remaining, Mayers has a narrow advantage of four points.

The largest four-wheel-drive contingent of the season so far is preparing to contest the second round of the new-for-2005 Texaco Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Rally Championship; the BRC Tarmac Stage Rally is slated for this Sunday (April 17), starting from the premises of McEnearney Quality in Wildey at 9.00am.
Entries will close on Wednesday night (April 13) at the briefing meeting, being held at Kendal Sporting at 7.30pm. Among others, the event is expected to include the return of Roger Skeete, who will debut his new Ford Focus.

The opening round of the new-for-2005 Texaco Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Rally Championship is slated for this Sunday, March 6. The BRC Gravel Stage Rally will start from the Vaucluse Raceway in St Thomas at 9.00am.
Entries close tomorrow (Wednesday) at 4.00pm, by which time BRC competition secretary Barry Gale is hopeful of an entry of quality and quantity. He said: "We made an excellent start to the Club's 2005 programme with a very competitive Gravel Sprint at Black Bess two weeks ago, so we are looking forward to building on that."