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Entries close tomorrow (June 1) for the Esso Courtesy Garage 50th Anniversary June Safari, the final event in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) month of celebrations to mark its half-century. Taking the Club right back to its roots in navigational rallying, the event runs off over the weekend of June 9/10.

Paul Bourne and Mark Hamilton are the joint leaders of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s Championship after two of the eight rounds . . . while an increase of more than 20 per cent in the number of entries over the same period last year is further evidence of motor sport’s growing popularity.

Reigning Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Champion Paul ‘Surfer’ Bourne is well placed to extend his lead in this year’s Texaco BRC Rally Championship, following confirmation that his closest challenger in the standings, Trevor ‘Electric Micey’ Manning, has withdrawn from Sunday’s (April 22) Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac Rally.

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has secured record levels of sponsorship for its 2007 programme of events as it prepares to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of its founding in 1957. Familiar sponsors of the 21st century are being joined by some businesses whose support in the early days of motor sport was instrumental in its steady growth into the biggest spectator sport in the island.