Rally

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.

1 Roger Skeete/Louis Venezia (WRC-1 Sol/LIME/Simpson Motors/Williams Trading Inc Subaru Impreza WRC S12)
2 John Powell – TRI/Nick Telfer - TRI (WRC-1 Intercontinental Shipping/Trinidad Mooring & Launch Services Ford Focus WRC08)
3 Roger Hill/Graham Gittens (WRC-2 Esso/Pennzoil/Nassco/MotorMac Toyota Corolla WRC)

No official press release yet, but what do we see on the Race of Champions site? That's right, Barbados on the 13th and 14th of December!

The new Bushy Park circuit was in the running of finalists but it seems it may be the chosen venue!

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.

Leading rally drivers were today (Friday) vocal in their praise and support for mandatory training sessions staged this week by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), the governing body of motor sport in the island. Approaching 60 competitors attended the two-part course, staged on Tuesday and Thursday evenings (August 19 & 21) at the Sir Garfield Sobers Gymnasium in Wildey.