SOL Rally Barbados
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 »
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 »
SKEETE LEADS HOME TEAM FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2013
Roger ‘The Sheriff’ Skeete will lead the home team when Sol Rally Barbados 2013 is staged over the weekend of June 1/2 . . . and the most successful driver in the 23-year history of the Caribbean island’s premier event is very much looking forward to the new season after what he describes as some “character-building” moments in 2012.... Read More »
Barbados Rally Club remembers Gabriel Konig
The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Committee of Management has expressed sadness at the passing in Ireland of Gabriel Konig, as she was known when she first visited Barbados, later Gabriel DeFreitas. In the days when the BRC ran the island’s Bushy Park race track, she raced a Chevrolet Camaro in the BOAC Speedbird Team in November 1972, alongside Dave... Read More »
ANGLIAS DOUBLE UP FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2013
Island rally fans who have been thrilled by the flamboyant antics of Scotland’s Allan Mackay and his Ford Anglia WRC for the past three years will have twice the fun at Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2), as his son Euan is entered to drive for the first time in what is dubbed the ‘Anglia JWRC’. Despite a combined... Read More »
IRISH ON THE CASE FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2013
Sol Rally Barbados 2013 is already more than half-way to its cap of 100 starters, with continued strong interest from Ireland helping to drive the number of International entries posted on-line to more than 30 a full two months earlier than last year. Since registration opened last month on the official web site, www.rallybarbados.net, a total of 52 entries... Read More »
