Volunteer marshals and officials working on next month’s Cartell.ie Killarney Rally of the Lakes will have the chance to win a trip to Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2), courtesy of the Barbados Rally Club (BRC), organisers of the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International. The prize-winner whose name is ‘pulled from the hat’ will enjoy an all-expenses-paid return trip [...]

Scotiabank is the new sole title sponsor of King of the Hill, the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) final key event run in association with Sol Rally Barbados 2013, the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International. The deal was confirmed during a press briefing this morning (Friday, April 19) at the CGI Building in Warrens, St Michael. Scheduled for Sunday, May [...]

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 the [...]

The Trinidad & Tobago Rally Club hosted its first event for 2013 this past Sunday February 24th. A large crowd gathered on the brand new “Jack & Jill” stage in Couva on a hot and dusty day. Team “Betts Motorsport” kicked off the season in the same style that they finished off 2012. Driver James Betts alongside Navigator Jason Costelloe [...]

As entries for Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2) edged towards the starting list cap of 100 this week – the total hit 98 today (Friday) – father and son Eddie and Keith Power bring to four the number of first-time Irish crews entered for the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International. Entries remain open on the official web site, [...]

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 weekend, [...]

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 age [...]

Two of the most popular Subaru Impreza drivers to have journeyed from England to the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport international in recent years are today confirmed for Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2). Kevin Procter will compete for the first time since 2009, while Rob Swann is back for the sixth consecutive year. Since entries opened on November 1 [...]

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 has [...]

Five repeat visitors who have clocked up more than 40 trips to Barbados over the last 10 years were among the first International competitors to post on-line entries for Sol Rally Barbados 2013 (June 1/2). Since registration opened last month on the official web site, www.rallybarbados.net, nearly three-quarters of the more than 40 entries already received have come from the [...]