FIRST-CLASS ENTRY FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS
Former winning co-driver joins Sol RB14 entry list
The final running order for Sol Rally Barbados (May 30-June 1), published in advance of this evening’s Briefing Meeting and Welcome Party by the Barbados Rally Club, lists competitors from 14 nations among the 84 crews for the Caribbean’s

 
The nation’s love of cricket will take on a greater dimension this week when teams from across the nation gather for the Special Olympics Barbados National Games Cricket Tournament.  The action takes place Friday at 8:30 am at the National Sports Council Blenheim A and B fields.
 
Athletes from the Ann Hill School are

Former UK National Rally Champion Paul Bird won Scotiabank King of the Hill yesterday (Sunday), despite felling a road sign on his final run in a dramatic spin in front of thousands of spectators. He admitted: “I just tried something different, and it didn’t work!” . . . but it didn’t matter, either, as his second-run time was good enough to

SCOTIABANK KING OF THE HILL 2014
Results
Key to nationalities (competitor from Barbados unless shown): ARG – Argentina; ENG – England; GUY – Guyana; IRL – Republic of Ireland; JAM – Jamaica; NED – The Netherlands; NIR – Northern Ireland; SCO – Scotland; TRI – Trinidad & Tobago; WAL – Wales
1st Paul Bird - ENG/Aled

 

Garrison Savannah                                       www.barbadosturfclub.org

THE 64TH BARBADOS GUINEAS RACEDAY

Featuring

THE BARBADOS GUINEAS (GR.1R. - BAR)

(THE 1ST JEWEL OF THE BARBADOS TRIPLE CROWN)

Final Program for

FINAL COUNTDOWN FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS 2014
RallyFM.net expands reach of coverage
The final countdown is well under way for Sol Rally Barbados 2014. Competitors, their families and supporters have been arriving at the island’s Grantley Adams International Airport daily since the weekend, with the cargo hold of two inbound Virgin

 

  The hype has never been higher in Barbados motorsport and it promises to rise to another gear in the next couple of weeks. Hot on the heels of a highly successful Top Gear promotion and the Lewis Hamilton visit all motorsport attention will now focus on the King of the Hill speed show at Vaucluse and the Sol Rally the following

Ollie Gobat
The brutal death of hotelier and realtor Ollie Gobat has not only shocked St. Lucia society, but sent shock waves throughout the Caribbean region and all round the world.
Ollie was a highly respected businessman and outstanding sportsman. He was one of the island’s leading businessmen and had a great future. His

SOL RALLY BARBADOS 4WD ENTRY REACHES 20
Barbados connections shine on Circuit of Ireland
The return to Sol Rally Barbados of two repeat UK competitors confirmed today by the organising Barbados Rally Club (BRC) brings to 20 the four-wheel-drive entry, with more than half in the WRC classes. Both entered in Group A Mitsubishi

Emily Kinch has qualified for one of only two Caribbean individual places in show jumping for the CAC 2014 Games in Veracruz Mexico in November. 
The Barbados Equestrian Society recognised this achievement with a small cocktail party last night at the Coconut Court Hotel.  Pictured at the function is Neil Murrell from the National

Spring Garden Highway is the place to be on Sunday from 6am! Support the ITU Sprint Triathlon Pan American Cup leg to be held in Barbados and our local boy Matthew Wright! Last year's winner Jason Wilson is out of it due to injury but men and women competitors from around the world will be competing. The 3 k funrun for everyone is off at 6am.

 

 

- 2008 Formula OneTM World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, to battle it out with Top Gear aficionado Richard Hammond –

- F1 Car Hot Laps, Car Football and the Ultimate Motorsport Showdown, 17-18 May 2014-

 

(22 April, 2014) - Top Gear Festival Barbados is edging closer and closer, and the much anticipated

BARBADOS CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL SOCCER TOURNAMENT
Welcome to the 2015 Barbados Caribbean International Youth Tournament and 
Showcase. The DATES OF THE TOURNAMENT will be from August 04 – 09,  2015 
and it is for BOYS AND GIRLS.
The tournament is generating lots of interests from clubs and teams from 
across

Former British Historic Rally Championship class-winners Chris Shooter and Bev LeGood will make their Caribbean debut on Sol Rally Barbados 2014, bringing to 21 the number of International crews so far confirmed for this year’s event. With less than two weeks to go before the closing date, more than one-third of the entries received on the

Roger Skeete maintained this season’s winning form when he drove the Sol/LIME/Simpson Motors/Michelin/Williams Trading Inc Subaru Impreza WRC S12 to victory in Sunday’s (April 13) Valvoline Rally, the first special stage rally of 2014. With Stuart Maloney as co-driver, Skeete’s winning margin was 27.77 seconds.
  All was not plain

Support from Irish competitors for Sol Rally Barbados, the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international, continues to grow. Of 70 first-time participants since 2011, around half have come from Ireland and some have already become repeat visitors.
  As organisers, competitors and fans make ready for next weekend’s Circuit of

The Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2014 season kicks up a gear on Sunday (April 13) with the Valvoline Rally. Before crews tackle the day’s 10 stages in the north of the island, fans are invited to interact with them at Scrutineering tomorrow (Saturday) at Automotive Art, Welches, between noon and 5.00pm.
  The entry list for the second

Two lucky prize-winners, one from each side of the Atlantic Ocean, enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime thrill today (April 10), when Top Gear’s The Stig treated them to some high-speed supercar laps around the redeveloped Bushy Park Circuit in Barbados.
When The Stig returns to the Caribbean island next month (May 17/18) for Top Gear Festival

Having finished second in last month’s curtain-raiser for the 2014 season, Derek Gill and Andrew Croney (Insurance Solutions/Sweet Temptations Mitsubishi Pajero) went one better last Sunday (April 6), winning the Chefette April Safari, round two of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari and Safari Novice Championships.

ISLAND MOTOR SPORT EXPANDS TRAINING COURSES
As a watershed season of island motor sport gathers momentum, the National Sporting Authority, the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), has launched a ground-breaking operational and safety training programme. With local volunteers now accredited to deliver bespoke courses, the BMF will be

Former UK National Rally Champion Roger Duckworth will make his fourth trip to Sol Rally Barbados this year, joining a growing list of returnees spread right through the field in the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international. While he will be fighting at the sharp end, another four regular visitors are confirmed today in the Clubman

Just three weeks since they saw action in the opening round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari and Safari Novice Championships, crews are making final preparations for this Sunday’s (April 6) Chefette April Safari . . . and reigning Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne and Navigator Chris O’Neal will be hoping to continue

 

Garrison Savannah                                                      www.barbadosturfclub.org

THE SALUTE TO THE 2012 CHAMPIONS RACEDAY

Featuring

THE SHARED ADVENTURE TROPHY (HANDICAP)

Final Program for Day 8 - Saturday, April 5, 2014

 

Garrison Savannah                                           www.barbadosturfclub.org

THE SALUTE TO THE 2013 CHAMPIONS RACEDAY

Featuring

THE VICTOR CHEESEMAN TROPHY (HANDICAP)

Entries for Day 9 - Saturday, April 12, 2014

Form

As competitors in the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Driver’s and Class Championships start preparations for the upcoming Valvoline Rally (Sunday, April 13), the second of eight rounds this year, there is a three-way tie in the Champion Driver’s title chase between Andrew Mallalieu, Josh Read and Daryl Clarke.
  Entries for the Valvoline

Although the dust has barely settled since the first encounter in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 2014 Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, crews are already making preparations for the second qualifying round for the year, the Chefette April Safari on Sunday, April 6.
  Being staged only three weeks since the March Safari launched the

Victory in Sunday’s (March 16) opening round of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, the March Safari, has given reigning Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne and Navigator Chris O’Neal a perfect start to their title defence . . . but it was not plain sailing, even for such an experienced crew.
  In the

BPCI-14-04: March 18, 2014
EDDIE JORDAN JOINS TOP GEAR FESTIVAL
BARBADOS LINE-UP
The Barbados Tourism Authority and Top Gear Festival have announced that legendary Formula One
team-owner and commentator Eddie Jordan is set to join the star-studded line-up at the inaugural Top Gear
Festival Barbados, from 17-

Sol Rally Barbados, the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international, will enjoy a major refresh for 2014, as the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) marks the 25th running of its blue riband event. Crews will need to be on their toes from the start, as the weekend’s action kicks off with a new Friday night SuperSpecial, one of three Power

The WICB is under fire from several quarters after intimating Barbados and Antigua will not be hosting England when they tour the Caribbean in 2015. The news has brought widespread condemnation from within the region and in England where both venues are extremely popular with the Barmy Army and England’s many travelling fans. While it is

England finally came good with a slender five runs victory in the third and final Twenty20 match at the Kensington Oval on Thursday. The match had a sensational finish as the Windies chased 166 to win as it looked mathematically impossible when they needed seven runs off the last ball, but Jade Dernbach then bowled a wide and allowed Tuesday’

CHEFETTE MUDDOGS CHAMPIONS SET TO GO
March Safari Sunday kicks off new season
Reigning Champion Driver Leslie Alleyne and Navigator Chris O’Neal begin their title defence this Sunday (March 16) when the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Chefette MudDogs Safari and Safari Novice Championships kick off for the 2014 season with the March

The visitors may have outnumbered the locals at Kensington Oval for the second Twenty20 match between West Indies and England but it was Darren Sammy who won the day with a magnificent onslaught late in the day. Earlier Krismar Santokie took four wickets as England recovered from the loss of three earlier wickets with Alex Hales (40) and Jos

 FIRST BLOOD TO WINDIES
 Reigning World Twenty20 champions West Indies comfortably won the first of their three matches at Kensington Oval in front of a packed house. The 27 runs margin flattered England who were never in the hunt after Marlon Samuels (69no), Dwayne Smith (27) and Chris Gayle (43) blasted the ball to all corners of the

It was a spectacular day at the Garrison Savannah when American horse Major Marvel owned by the Ramseys, ridden by Barbadian Champion jockey Patrick Husbands convincingly took the Sandy Lane Gold Cup. With a capacity crowd watching the parade and the magnificent Merry Men, a great time was had by all at the biggest race day in the Caribbean.

There will be two Sheriffs in town come Sol Rally Barbados 2014, when Scottish driver Brian ‘The Sheriff’ Watson arrives with his Audi quattro S1 and ‘Deputy’, co-driver Caroline Will. The welcoming party at the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international will naturally include Roger ‘The Sheriff’ Skeete, 12-time winner of the island’

CHEFETTE SUPPORTS MUDDOGS AGAIN IN 2014
Preparations under way for March Safari
Chefette Restaurants has been confirmed as title sponsor of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) MudDogs Safari Championship for the second year, continuing its enthusiastic backing for the series, which began with the awarding of Novice trophies in 2010.

STOCKDALE KEEPS UP SOL RALLY BARBADOS RECORD
Organisers feel positive as new season starts
As Martin ‘Mad-Dale’ Stockdale looks forward to Sol Rally Barbados 2014 and his 14th consecutive year of competition in the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international, he and wife Glenis are also preparing to become first-time

LEWIS HAMILTON JOINS TOP GEAR FESTIVAL
BARBADOS LINE UP
Barbados, 20 February 2014
Top Gear Festival announced today that 2008 Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, is set to join
the star-studded line-up of world famous presenters and motor sport legends at the inaugural Top Gear
Festival in Barbados

UK SUBARUS BOOST SOL RALLY BARBADOS NUMBERS
Bird wins as Procter retires in tarmac North West Stages
Two Subaru Imprezas new to Sol Rally Barbados (May 31/June 1) are confirmed on the growing list of overseas entries for the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) 25th running of its premier event, also Scotiabank King of the Hill the

 Good morning all
Unfortunately due to the weather, we have had to cancel polo this afternoon. We are going to check the field in the morning and see if we can play tomorrow.
Regards
Robert King
Club Manager
Barbados Polo Club
Phone# 246 432-1802 .
Cell#    246 230-1308 .

“WATERSHED SEASON” FOR BARBADOS MOTOR SPORT
Circuit race and rally fans in Barbados can look forward to a “watershed season” for their favourite sport in 2014, according to the island’s National Sporting Authority, the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF) . . . and the months of May and June look set to break all previous records for

REGIONAL CREWS HEAD FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS
Skeete’s “outstanding” record honoured by National Sports Council
Regional interest in Sol Rally Barbados 2014 is growing steadily, with three more crews confirmed to join Jamaica’s Jeff Panton, the 1998 winner fighting for overall honours in his Ford Focus WRC06. David Coelho will

BPCI-14-01: February 5, 2014
RED BULL GLOBAL RALLYCROSS SERIES STARS
TO COMPETE ON TRACK AT TOP GEAR FESTIVAL
BARBADOS
Top Gear Festival Barbados announced today that it will host an international round of this year’s Red Bull
Global Rallycross Championship adding to the already impressive line-up of motoring

Darian King and Haydn Lewis have put Barbados one win away from a semi-final spot in the 2014 Davis Club Americas Zone 11.  On their home court in Wildey, they defeated Chile's Jorge Aguilar and Christian Garin 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 to put Barbados into a 2-1 lead. Play continues this morning with King and lewis playing singles matches

“MAXIMUM ATTACK” SKEETE FOR SOL RALLY BARBADOS
Swann unveils new livery in first outing of 2014
Roger ‘The Sheriff’ Skeete will be in “maximum attack” mode when he leads the home team out for Sol Rally Barbados 2014, targetting his 13th victory in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) blue riband event. He will again be partnered by co

 Come show your colours and support Team Barbados as Barbados plays Chile in the Davis Cup Americas Zone Group II first round tie at the National Tennis Centre on Friday January 31 at 10.00 am, Saturday February 1 at 12.00 noon and Sunday February 2 at 10.00 am.  

 
TICKET INFO:
General Admission - Friday - Bds$20,

UK REGULARS CELEBRATE AT SOL RALLY BARBADOS
Shipping date confirmed; updated FAQ document published
Britain’s Andrew Costin-Hurley and wife Melissa are planning a triple celebration at Sol Rally Barbados 2014, their 11th visit to the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international. Since their first trip in 2003, when they

Latest news for the Polo...
 A decision has been made to host the Roger Gooding Memorial 6 Goal  Tournament at a later date in order for all club members to participate, rather than have one day of matches which will restrict members from playing. Therefore, the matches scheduled for this Saturday will be played as  "Exhibition Matches

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