Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton won the final two rounds of the 2014 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championships yesterday (Sunday) at the double-header Winter Tarmac Sprint in St Lucy.
As competitors prepare for the final event in the 2014 Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championships, front-runners Daryl Clarke, Rhett Watson and Stuart White are looking to the dropped score rule to give them the edge to claim the prestigious Champion Driver title.
A huge event, this will be the second 'unmissable' occasion for motorsports fans on the island at Bushy Park this year after the hugely successful Top Gear Festival in May.
Roger Mayers and Max Ferri defeated the opposition and the elements to win Saturday's (August 30) BRC Summer Nights Tarmac Stages, in association with LIME and Banks Beer. As changeable weather conditions presented drivers with almost impossible tyre choices, the day and night event presented one of the biggest challenges of the season.
Trinidad's John 'Pentti' Powell and David Coelho will add some regional flavour at the sharp end of tomorrow's (Saturday) BRC Summer Nights Tarmac Stages, in association with LIME and Banks Beer. They are among approaching 30 entries who will be seen contesting 12 stages, six in daylight, then six after dark, giving a total distance of just over 52 kilometres.
Since its outstanding debut performance at Rally Jamaica in 2010, the Simpson Motors Suzuki SX4 WRC has racked up a string of impressive results initially in the hands of experienced driver Sean Gill and more recently from rising regional star Neil Armstrong.
The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is planning to make Sol Rally Barbados 2015 "a real classic", worthy of the 25th Anniversary of the first running of its International All-Stage Rally in 1990. Sol RB15 will run on Saturday and Sunday, May 30/31, with Scrutineering and Scotiabank King of the Hill the previous weekend, May 23/24.
