Rally

  Back in competition after an 11-month absence, Paul Bourne started his preparations for Sol Rally Barbados 2011 (June 4/5) in style by winning Sunday’s BRC Shakedown Stages; co-driven by Ronald Plant in the Banks/Chefette/MQI/Castrol Ford Focus WRC07, his margin of victory was just under eight seconds after 48 stage kilometres.

  News that regional champions Gary Gregg and John Powell have confirmed their entries for Sol Rally Barbados 2011 (June 4/5) further boosts the quality field for the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international, bringing the entry in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) World Rally Car class into double figures for the fourth year in a row.

  Four lucky UK motor sport fans will shortly cross the Atlantic for the holiday of a lifetime as VIP guests of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC). Tom Hall from East Sussex in England and Mark Hughes from Armagh in Northern Ireland each won a trip for two to Sol Rally Barbados (June 4/5), the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international.

  Among the European entries that set sail from Portsmouth on the English south coast yesterday (Tuesday) for Sol Rally Barbados 2011 (June 4/5) are three that will add a celtic flavour to the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international, which will run off shortly after the revitalised Barbados Celtic Festival - Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are again among the nations represented.