Motorsports
Preparations under way for Mud Dogs March Safari in Barbados
It is four months since last year’s final Mud Dogs event, the Nassco November Safari, in which Leslie Alleyne and Chris O’Neal claimed their third victory in five rounds. The Champions, however, were the winners of the other two Safaris, Chris Armstrong and Wayne Clarke, the latter claiming the Champion Navigator title for a second consecutive year. Nick Branson... Read More »
Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton Confirmed for SOL RALLY BARBADOS
Confirmation this week that Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton has entered Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2) in his ex-Marcus Gronholm Ford Focus WRC06 brings to four the entries confirmed for the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) new WRC-1 class in the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international. Driving a Toyota Celica GT4 in 1998, Panton was the event’s first winner from... Read More »
ARMSTRONG CHANGES UP FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS
Giant-killer Neil Armstrong, the highest-placed two-wheel-drive finisher in Sol Rally Barbados for the past two years, faces a new challenge in the 2013 running of the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International on June 1/2. It was confirmed this week that he will drive the Suzuki SX4 WRC in 2013. Armstrong, one of the rising stars of island rallying,... Read More »
Paul Bird back on form as he beats Procter in the North West Stages
Sol Rally Barbados 2012 winner Paul Bird returned to form last weekend (February 8/9), putting an uncharacteristic string of three successive retirements behind him with victory in the Legend Fires North West Stages, based in the British seaside town of Blackpool; he beat fellow Barbados regular Kevin Procter by 26 seconds, the pair sharing all but three of the... Read More »
STOCKDALE CONFIRMED FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2013
Britain’s Martin Stockdale has confirmed that he will once again compete in the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International – Sol Rally Barbados – when he makes his 13th consecutive appearance in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event over the weekend of June 1/2 this year. Fresh from celebrating daughter Laura-Jo’s 21st birthday in the British Midlands last... Read More »
STRONG LOCAL SUPPORT FOR RALLY BARBADOS
Entries posted on the official web site for Rally Barbados (June 1/2), the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International, passed 80 this week . . . and there is strong support for the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event from local crews, particularly those in the core Modified and SuperModified classes. More than two-thirds of local entries so far... Read More »
The Barbados Motorsports Federation Praise Motorsport Volunteers
Senior motor sport volunteers keen to enhance their skill sets were praised at the weekend as they assembled for a pre-season training programme organised by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF) and majority funded by the sport’s world governing body, the Federation Internationale d’Automobile (FIA). In his welcome address, Chairman of the Board of the National Sports Council, Seibert Straughan,... Read More »
Ullyett Race Team’s Classic Car Lime
So the crew from Adrenaline Sun took a cool Sunday drive down to the Ullyett Race Team’s Classic Car Lime where we hung out with team members, Shannon Kirton, Jason King and the man himself Geoffery Ullyett. It was good fun, good drinks, an excellent Bajan soup and great cars. Oh yeah, there was also some wicked classic car... Read More »
