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Marshals among 70 awardees at Annual Prize giving

More than 70 members of the island’s motor sport fraternity were honoured on Friday evening (November 20) at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Annual Prize-giving; the awards included 14 return tickets to the UK, presented by Rachel Pilgrim, marketing manager of Virgin Atlantic, title sponsor of the BRC Driver’s and Class Championships.
Among the evening’s awardees were marshals, whose voluntary contribution to the sport was lauded in addresses by Club Chairman Mark Hamilton and Mud Dogs Chairman Leslie Alleyne. The contribution of long-standing marshals Paul Bourne, Michael Broomes, David Carter and Lynne Croney was acknowledged with trophies donated by Marshall Trading, while another eight volunteers were rewarded in outstanding and rookie marshal categories.
Paul Bourne and Stuart Maloney were crowned Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s Champions, while Geoff Noel and Kreigg Yearwood collected the awards as Overall Class Champions. In the Mud Dogs Safari Championship, Robert Warren claimed the Sextant Challenge Trophy as Champion Navigator, Darrin White collected the Peter Farmer Memorial Trophy as Champion Driver, while the Mud Dogs MudFest Champion was Tfphill Juman.
Included in the Prizegiving for the first time was recognition of the increasingly popular grass roots discipline of Autocross, which has been attracting newcomers to motor sport – John Marshal was rewarded as highest points-scorer in the four events.
More than 300 competitors, marshals, media and their families attended the occasion, which was held at Balls Plantation, Christ Church; the evening’s entertainment also included a showing of the Sol Rally Barbados 2009 programme filmed by British production house Acceleration TV, which is being broadcast 20 times to more than 16 million homes in 40 countries across Europe on satellite station Motors TV throughout November.

Barbados Rally Club Annual Awards 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
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CHELSEA ROETT SHINES IN CALIFORNIA

Chelsea Roett finishing 3rd at Ripcurl Gromsearch Nationals in California, is swiftly becoming a surfer girl to be reckon with on the international stage! In two international events she has stood proudly on the winners podium the same.In the forefront of Barbados women’s surfing,Roett is doing her country proud, winning the Ripcurl Gromsearch Regionals at New Smyrna Beach Florida in August earning an automatic qualification to the Ripcurl Nationals held last weekend in Salt Creek,California.Sponsored by ACP Associates , Alan Burke Coach for the five Junior surfers Dane Mackie, Chelsea Tuach, Ametza Nicholls and Joshua Burke that qualified for the Nationals states “Chelsea surfed an exciting first round heat, started out strong leading the heat, then dropped to fourth, with the pressure on, she collected
a final good ride in the dying minutes to catapult her to first place and a birth in the finals” Burke said. In the finals Roett started strong again but was unable to fend off the aggressive approach of Champion Nage Malamed (Hawaii) who unleashed a repertoire of power surfing maneuvers, getting in sync with the ocean and eventually using up her 12 allotted waves, forcing her to return to the beach with 3 minutes remaining. This left 2nd place finisher Lakey Peterson(California) , 4th place Frankie Harrar(California) and Roett to battle out the time on their own, ensuing a struggle to
capitalize on Malamed’s return to the beach,the Californian’s got the better of Roett with good paddle tactics forcing Roett to miss a potential good scoring set wave. “For these surfers to qualify for this event is an achievement in it self,and Chelsea’s podium presence is a plateful of confidence to junior surfers in Barbados, what we need now is good
sponsorship so these kids can continue to realized their talents and do their country proud” Coach Burke states. “This event was broadcast live via internet and viewed by millions, and from what I’ve been told the commentators whom had visited Barbados prior and due to our presence did not stop speaking highly of the Island, this is tremendous exposer to Barbados” Burke says. This trip was made possible with the kind assistance of ACP Associates and
the National Sports Council.
For full results,photos and Video go to www.ripcurl.com

WARREN AND WHITE ARE 2009 MUD DOGS CHAMPIONS
Edwards and Corbin win Nassco November Safari for Toyota

Former Novice Champions Dustin Edwards and Ryan Corbin ended their Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship season on a high, winning the Nassco November Safari on Sunday (November 15) . . . and they brought a smile to the sponsor’s face as well, as they won in their Blockman/SDRR Hydraulics/Crane & Equipments Toyota Hilux!
Meanwhile, despite their lowest finish of the year – fifth place following three previous top three results – Darrin White and Robert Warren (Flyin’ Fish/Lucky Locks Nissan Frontier) did enough to carry off the 2009 Driver and Navigator Championships.
The winners accrued 262 penalties and were the only crew to figure in the top six on both routes, third in the morning, fourth in the afternoon; their winning margin was just 32 penalty points, from Audley and Jeremy Croney, claiming their best result of the season in the JCB Excavators Suzuki Samurai, with Leslie and Anna-Lee Alleyne (Autozone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero) third, another 10 points behind, Anna-Lee collecting the award as highest-placed female.
Adrian Sinckler and Andre Murrell (Suzuki Samurai) were not only the leaders of the Novice Category after route one, but the event overall! With just 24 penalty points, they were more than 100 ahead of Dominic Brooker/Stephen Dear (SDRR Hydraulics/Next Generation Electrical/Joe Brooker’s Building Toyota Hilux) and Edwards/Corbin.
While they held on to their advantage among the novices in the afternoon and collected the trophies donated by Richard Daniel of Neptune Tours, along with a hat and mug from Nassco, they slipped down the overall order. Novice trophies were also presented to runners-up Matthew Durrant/Renne Mings (Tint Black Foot Flat Land Rover Defender) and third-placed David Brewster/Winston Drakes (Marks Auto Parts/Champion Auto Wrecker Service Suzuki Samurai).
The route was set by 2005 Champion Navigator and Driver Neil Barnard and Barry Gale, whom Mud Dogs Chairman Leslie Alleyne thanked for their work: “It really was a fabulous event and a great way to end the year. We went on some roads that I had never been on in my life. It was clear that Barry and Neil had put a lot of time into this one, because the tricks and the layout of controls were very cleverly orchestrated.”
The Prizegiving was held last night (Tuesday) at the Barbados Clay Target Shooting Association Club House, where Nassco’s Neil Corbin presented awards: the winning crew took home $500 in credit at Nassco, with $300 and $200 for second and third.
Alleyne added: “The atmosphere last night was great and people stayed around a long time, chatting about the year and reliving memories of the previous events. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all of our sponsors for the year, our marshals and all of the competitors for making the 2009 season the success that it was.”
As Alleyne and wife Anna-Lee had been competing only for fun, they handed their $200 third prize to Simon Parravicino and Michael Jones (Toyota Hilux); although complete novices, they had showed great enthusiasm and finished 11th of the 22 crews on route two. They also won the Encouragement Award, donated by Biddy Barber, and a hat and mug from Nassco.
The Mud Dogs will join other members of the Barbados Rally Club for the Annual Prizegiving on Friday (November 20), where the year-end awards will be presented.

Nassco November Safari – November 15
Mud Dogs BRC Safari Championship, round 4
Results
1st Dustin Edwards/Ryan Corbin (Blockman/SDRR Hydraulics/Crane & Equipments Toyota Hilux), 262 penalties
2nd Audley Croney/Jeremy Croney (JCB Excavators Suzuki Samurai), 294pens
3rd Leslie Alleyne/Anna-Lee Alleyne (Autozone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero), 304pens
4th Dominic Brooker/Stephen Dear (SDRR Hydraulics/Next Generation Electrical/Joe Brooker’s Building Toyota Hilux), 338pens
5th Darrin White/Robert Warren (Flyin’ Fish/Lucky Locks Nissan Frontier), 413pens
6th Biddy Barber/Chris O’Neal (Aqua Pur/Castrol/Visitor’s Information Daihatsu Feroza), 437pens
7th Damian Brooker/Derek Edwards (Joe Brooker’s Building/SDRR Hydraulics Toyota Hilux), 450pens
8th Sean Dowding/Kirk Watkins (Axis Inc/Vesta Ltd Isuzu D-Max), 557pens
9th Edson Arthur/Renata Roett (Toyota Hilux), 568pens
10th Michael Ward/Willie Hinds (EZ Sign Stop Suzuki Samurai), 617pens
etc
Novice Category
1st Adrian Sinckler/Andre Murrell (Suzuki Samurai), 682pens – 12th o/a
2nd Matthew Durrant/Renne Mings (Tint Black Foot Flat Land Rover Defender), 1306pens – 16th o/a
3rd David Brewster/Winston Drakes (Marks Auto Parts/Champion Auto Wrecker Service Suzuki Samurai), 1467pens – 18th o/a
etc
Route 1
1st Sinckler/Murrell, 24pens; 2nd Brooker/Dear, 135pens; 3rd Edwards/Corbin, 187pens; etc
Route 2
1st equal Alleyne/Alleyne and Barber/Gollop, 0pens; 3rd Croney/Croney, 50pens; etc

2009 BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship
Positions after final round – Navigators:
1st Robert Warren, 226 points
2nd Stephen Dear, 218pts
3rd Wayne Clarke, 200pts
4th Kirk Watkins, 190pts
5th Derek Edwards, 178pts
6th Willie Hinds, 176pts
7th Neil Barnard, 168pts
8th Tricia King, 162pts
9th Ryan Corbin, 148pts
10th Tiffany Marshall, 140pts
etc
Novice Category:
1st Andre Murrell, 132pts – 11th o/a
2nd Winston Drakes, 82pts – 16th o/a
3rd Gary Mendes, 70pts – 17th o/a
etc
Drivers:
1st Darrin White, 226 points
2nd Dominic Brooker, 218pts
3rd Chris Armstrong, 200pts
* 4th Sean Dowding, 190pts
* 5th Paul Marshall, 190pts
6th Damian Brooker, 178pts
7th Michael Ward, 176pts
8th Audley Croney, 170pts
9th Barry Gale, 168pts
10th Kirk King, 162pts
etc
* tie decided on lower number of penalties on the events common to both drivers
Novice Category:
1st Adrian Sinckler, 132pts – 12th o/a
2nd David Brewster, 80pts – 18th o/a
3rd Luke Gittens, 70pts – 19th o/a
etc

November 14, 2009 @ Salt Creek

• National Final @ Salt Creek November 14th, 2009

• Live Webcast: 56 Invitees Nationwide

• $2,500 Prize Purse

• Trip to Bells Beach for Boys & Girls 16/Under Champs

• International Final: The Rip Curl Pro 2010

• All Info at ripcurl.com/gromsearch

Time

Division

Round

Heats

Duration

7:30-8:30am

Boys 16/Under

Round 1

(1-4)

15min

8:30-9:30am

Boys 14/Under

Round 1

(1-4)

15min

9:30-10:00am

Boys 12/Under

Round 1

(1-2)

15min

10:00-10:30am

Girls 16/Under

Round 1

(1-2)

15min

10:30-10:50am

Boys 12/Under

Rep

(1)

20min

10:50-11:30am

Boys 14/Under

Semi-final

(1-2)

20min

11:30-11:50am

Girls 16/Under

Rep

(1)

20min

11:50-12:30pm

Boys 16/Under

Semi-final

(1-2)

20min

12:30-12:50pm

Boys 12/Under

Final

(1)

20min

12:50pm-1:10pm

Boys 14/Under

Final

(1)

20min

1:10-1:35pm

Girls 16/Under

Final

(1)

25min

1:35-2:00pm

Boys 16/Under

Final

(1)

25min

GROMSEARCH RIP CURL AFTER PARTY – 11/14/09 Rip Curl GromSearch after-party from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the Rip Curl Surf Center in San Clemente: 3801 S El Camino Real, San Clemente 92672. Games and giveaways, DJ Phishphonics pumping tunes, a Surfing Magazine slideshow, a highlight video from the competition, a screening of Rip Curl’s latest flick Rubber Soul II, and free food!

Nassco prizes for top crews in November Safari

Competitors are making final preparations ahead of Sunday’s (November 13) Nassco November Safari, the fourth and final round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship; more than 20 crews were entered by last night’s (Tuesday) Briefing Meeting, with none of the leading points-scorers missing.
During the meeting, Nassco’s Neil Corbin reaffirmed the company’s commitment to the Mud Dogs, and further strengthened this by announcing new awards for the top three crews: Sunday’s winning crew will take home $500.00 in credit at Nassco, with $300 and $200 on offer to those finishing second and third.
But taking home those prizes will not come easy, as this year’s final event has been set by 2005 Champions Neil Barnard and Barry Gale. Barnard explained: “The first route is predominantly Tulip, with a couple of sections of BRC, while the second route is a real 50/50 mix of BRC and Tulip. The BRC sections are not long, and the rally in general is neither a car-breaker nor a mind-bender – well, it shouldn’t be! It should be good fun for both Pros and Novices.”
Crews must assemble at Gale’s Hatcheries, Mangrove, St Philip, by 7.00am, with the first crew scheduled to leave at 8.01am. The lunchtime stop-over will be at Automotive Art, Welches, some time between 12.30 and 1.00pm, with the finish at Black Bess in St Peter around 5.00pm, where the canteen will be fully-stocked for an evening social.
Mud Dogs Chairman Leslie Alleyne notes: “It promises to be an exciting day, with a Driver Challenge close to the start. Spectators interested in watching the challenge are asked to meet at the start, where they will be given directions to the challenge site.   
“The route setters have been very clever, by changing up the styles between the two routes. Barry has set the first half, Neil has set the second half – for the navigator, this means that it will be difficult to get into a groove. The two halves will come together today as Barry re-checks Neil’s and vice versa.”
The Prizegiving for the Nassco November Safari will be held at 7.00pm at the Barbados BCTSA Club House on Tuesday, November 17, once the results have been declared final.

Nassco November Safari – November 15
Mud Dogs BRC Safari Championship, round 4
Running order – Novice class
1 Matthew Durrant/Renne Mings (Tint Black Foot Flat Land Rover Defender)
2 David Brewster/Winston Drakes (Marks Auto Parts/Champion Auto Wrecker Service Suzuki Samurai)
3 Luke Gittens/Gary Mendes (LG Trading/K&N Equipment/Lunatics Inc Suzuki Samurai)
4 Simon Parravicino/Michael Jones (Toyota Hilux)
9 Anthony King/Dave Sealy (Dynamic Limousine/Maxxis Tire/Lee’s Tyre Shop Toyota Hilux)
16 Adrian Sinckler/Andre Murrell (Suzuki Samurai)
Pro class
5 Michael Ward/Willie Hinds (EZ Sign Stop Suzuki Samurai)
6 Chris Armstrong/Wayne Clarke (Toyota Hilux)
7 Edson Arthur/Renata Roett (Toyota Hilux)
8 Kirk King/Tricia King (K & N Equipment Mazda B2500)
10 Sean Dowding/Kirk Watkins (Axis Inc/Vesta Ltd Isuzu D-Max)
11 Darrin White/Robert Warren (Flyin’ Fish/Lucky Locks Nissan Frontier)
12 Dustin Edwards/Ryan Corbin (Blockman/SDRR Hydraulics/Crane & Equipments Toyota Hilux)
13 Nicolas Lorde/Warrick Eastmond (Niccolls & Edghill Construction Suzuki Vitara)
14 Biddy Barber/Chris O’Neal (Aqua Pur/Castrol/Visitor’s Information Daihatsu Feroza)
15 Colin Goodman/Robin Hinds (Suzuki Samurai)
17 Dominic Brooker/Stephen Dear (SDRR Hydraulics/Next Generation Electrical/Joe Brooker’s Building Toyota Hilux)
18 Leslie Alleyne/Anna-Lee Alleyne (Autozone Inc Mitsubishi Pajero)
19 Brett Barber/Warren Gollop (Essco Mitsubishi Pajero)
20 Audley Croney/Jeremy Croney (JCB Excavators Suzuki Samurai)
21 Paul Marshall/Tiffany Marshall (Mitsubishi L200)
22 Damian Brooker/Derek Edwards (Joe Brooker’s Building/SDRR Hydraulics Toyota Hilux)

2009 BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship
Positions after round three – Navigators:
1st Robert Warren, 174 points
2nd Stephen Dear, 164pts
3rd Wayne Clarke, 160pts
4th Kirk Watkins, 144pts
equal 5th Willie Hinds & Tricia King, 134pts
7th Derek Edwards, 130pts
equal 8th Neil Barnard & Warrick Eastmond, 110pts
10th Tiffany Marshall, 106pts
etc
Drivers:
1st Darrin White, 174 points
2nd Dominic Brooker, 164pts
3rd Chris Armstrong, 160pts
4th Paul Marshall, 156pts
5th Sean Dowding, 144pts
equal 6th Kirk King & Michael Ward, 134pts
8th Damian Brooker, 130pts
9th Audley Croney, 112pts
equal 10th Barry Gale & Nicolas Lorde, 110pts
etc

Bouyant season for Virgin Atlantic BRC Championships

Nearly 80 drivers scored points in the 2009 Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver’s and Class Championships, a 10 per cent increase on the previous year, and nearly double the number who scored in BRC events as recently as 2003; not only was there quantity, but quality, too, with both the Driver’s and Overall Class Champions settled at the final round, the latter decided by a tie-break.
No driver enjoyed a 100 per cent success rate during the 2009 season, although Overall Class Champion Geoff Noel looked set to do so until the early stages of the final event, the BRC Winter Rally; the impressive reliability record of his Group N (Production 4) Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX took its first knock of the year, with a persistent gearbox problem dropping him behind Harold Morley (Subaru Impreza N14), the only other among the six P4 runners to have contested every round.

Noel’s total of 198 points equalled that of Modified 6 winner Edward Corbin (Daihatsu Charmant); under the tie-break rules, Noel’s greater number of class wins – 11 to Corbin’s 10 – settled the title, leaving Corbin the runner-up for the fourth time in seven years. SuperModified 11 winner Jonathan Still (BMW M3) finished third, two points behind on 196, SM10 winner Ian Warren (Suzuki Swift) fourth on 191.
Paul Bourne, who also won the Driver’s Championship and M8-WRC, was fifth, with 187 points collected in his Subaru Impreza WRC and Ford Focus WRC. Neil Armstrong (Evo VI) won M8-A, beaten only once in the nine events contested, by Martin Atwell (Evo III).

SuperModified 11: only Jonathan Still (BMW M3) contested every round, winning all but two, for a fifth class title in six years. The early-season battle with ’08 champion Nick Gill (Mazda 3) faded after Sol RB09, as mechanical failures prevented Gill achieving the results that the car’s pace deserved. Although the most popular class, with 13 drivers, many appeared only a handful of times
SuperModified 10: only Ian Warren (Suzuki Swift) and Rhett Watson (Ford Escort MkI) achieved a 100 per cent attendance record of the nine who turned out; Warren was beaten twice, on the second day of Sol RB09 (Watson), then in the MCBI’s Rally of the Sun & Stars (Cliff Roett, Toyota Starlet), on the way to his fourth consecutive class title
SuperModified 9: after a bad start – he missed the first event, then the Starlet failed in the third – even four wins could not help Josh Read to a hat-trick of class titles; six wins, four in the higher-scoring rallies, gave last year’s runner-up James Betts (Opel Corsa) an unbeatable total. In another popular class, with 12 starters, Neil Corbin (Starlet) won the scrap for third with Stuart White’s similar car
Modified 7: although 10 drivers scored, only Freddie Gale (Toyota Corolla RunX) entered every round, claiming his first class title since ‘03; he benefitted in part from John Corbin’s (Toyota Corolla) late start, also the demise of reigning Champion Adrian Linton’s Vauxhall Astra GSi, following a rare visit to the scenery on Sol RB09
Modified 6: alone among the eight drivers to contest every round, Edward Corbin (Daihatsu Charmant) was beaten twice, first by Danny Williams (Ford Fiesta), then by Jamal Brathwaite (Mitsubishi Mirage) on day two of Sol RB09; Brathwaite finishes runner-up, and could have been closer, had he not missed the first four rounds
Modified 5, P3 & P2: M5 winner Sean Cox (Suzuki Swift GTi) was the only driver in these poorly-supported classes to complete nearly a full season; Sean Field (Peugeot 306) won P3, while Fabien Clarke (Suzuki Ignis Sport) might have lost his P3 class title had Dane Skeete (Peugeot 106) chosen to contest the final event

Virgin Atlantic BRC Overall Class Championship
– after Final Round 12
* totals shown are calculated less the lowest score

1st Geoffrey Noel (P4 Globe Finance/DeWalt Tools/Essco/Sunbeach/