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ACTION-PACKED START TO MOTOR SPORT SEASON
Barbados Rally Club confirms 2010 calendar

Motor sport fans starved of action for the past three months do not have much longer to wait: the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2010 season starts with a packed programme of three events on consecutive weekends, starting with the Spring Gravel Sprint on Saturday, February 26.
The Club, which held its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday (February 16), has confirmed its programme for 2010, which includes a number of subtle changes from recent years. The three primary championships remain the same, however – the Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s Championship, the Virgin Atlantic BRC Class Championship and the BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship.
The weekend after the Spring Gravel Sprint, the Mud Dogs season starts with the March Safari (Saturday, March 6), with the third round of the Driver’s and Class Championship the following Sunday (March 13).
As in 2009, the Driver’s Championship will be based on overall results in the 10 qualifying rounds; the Class Championship will be based on class results, with individual Class Champions and an Overall Class Champion; for the Mud Dogs, there will again be Safari Champion Navigator, Safari Champion Driver and MudFest Champion Driver titles, with the number of Safaris increased to five, drivers counting their best four scores toward their year-end total. Read the rest of this entry »

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
List of Award Winners Read the rest of this entry »

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

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

Nassco November Safari brings season to a close

Just two weeks after island motor sport fans enjoyed last Sunday’s final gravel rally of the season, competitors in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Mud Dogs Safari Championship are heading for their final showdown.

The Nassco November Safari on Sunday, November 15, offers crews their last chance to score points and settle whose names will be inscribed on the 2009 trophies.
Entries for the fourth and final round of the Championship opened on Monday and will close at 2.00pm next Tuesday (November 10), prior to the Briefing Meeting at the Barbados Clay Target Shooting Association’s Clubhouse at Searles, Christ Church at 7.00pm the same evening.
Crews can expect a challenging day, as the route setters are Neil Barnard and Barry Gale, respectively the Champion Navigator and Driver in 2005 and winners of the June Safari last year; victory in that event for Barnard created an unique triple, as he joined father David and grandfather, Trevor Gale, as a winner of the event which, in 1957, brought about the creation of the Barbados Rally Club.
Once again, the Mud Dogs have enjoyed a healthy season; thus far, 40 drivers and 42 navigators have scored points in the March, June and September Safaris . . . while many others have participated in the popular MudFests and navigational practice events. The latest practice event is slated for this Sunday (November – set by Biddy Barber and Warrick Eastmond, it starts at the BCTSA Clubhouse at 9.00am, finishing at Juliet’s Rum Shop, College Savannah, St Philip, at around 1.00pm.
Mud Dogs Chairman Leslie Alleyne is looking forward to the climax of the season: “We have enjoyed tremendous support from our sponsors – and once again I must say a big thanks to Nassco for their continued backing of our final Safari – but I’m also really encouraged by the number of people who turn out for our practice events.
“This Sunday’s event, for instance, will give new competitors a chance to see what we are all about . . . but it is also a good opportunity for a few people who want to sharpen their minds for the battle to come on the 15th!”
Full details of the Nassco November Safari will be announced as they become available, but it has been confirmed as a one-day event, with a morning start and finish the same afternoon. As usual, the Prizegiving will be held at 7.00pm at the BCTSA Club House the following Tuesday (November 17), once the results have been declared final.

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
5th equal Willie Hinds & Tricia King, 134pts
7th Derek Edwards, 130pts
8th equal 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
6th equal Michael Ward & Kirk King, 134pts
8th Damian Brooker, 130pts
9th Audley Croney, 112pts
10th equal Barry Gale & Nicolas Lorde, 110pts
etc