Rally

Four senior motor sport volunteers from Barbados are flying north this month for training courses organised by the UK’s governing body, the Motor Sports Association (MSA). While designed to increase their personal knowledge about the management of the island’s most popular spectator sport, the courses will also enable them to train officials and competitors in the future.

Sol Rally Barbados reaches an important milestone in 2014, when the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) celebrates the 25th running of its blue riband event. Subject to final ratification by the island’s governing body, the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), Sol RB14 will run on Saturday and Sunday, May 31/June 1, with Scrutineering and Scotiabank King of the Hill the previous weekend, May 24/25.   On-line entries for the Caribbean's biggest annual motor sport international will open on the official web site - www.rallybarbados.net – on October 1.

With changeable weather conditions making life tough for the 40-strong field, Neil Armstrong (Monster/Sol/Chefette/Digicel/Virgin Atlantic/Gunk/Hankook Tyres/Redline Fuels/Simpson Finance/Simpson Motors Suzuki SX4 WRC) triumphed in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Summer Nights Tarmac Sprint on Saturday evening (August 17).   The Hangman’s Hill to Lion Castle stage offered drivers a different challenge on each of the four runs – dry for practice, wet for the first official run, damp for the second, almost completely dry for the final.

An impressive 40 entries have been received for tomorrow’s (Saturday, August 17) Summer Nights Tarmac Sprint, including all the leading challengers in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships. The battle for points resumes after a seven-week break, with four rounds to go.