Lively winds and a heavy afternoon squall made conditions tough on the opening day of the Mount Gay Rum Regatta when 37 boats took to the water in beautiful Carisle Bay. Racing was lively in the competitive J24 Class where Bruce Bailey won the morning race and Neil Burke the afternoon race after both made the most of excellent starts. But the

As entries for Sol Rally Barbados 2012 (June 9/10) closed today (May 14), the last first-timers from Ireland were confirmed as Matt Shinnors and Catherine Levis. Asked how he heard about Sol RB12, Shinnors, whose previous experience includes one outing in the World Rally Championship, said: ³I was raised on a diet of rallying; you couldn¹t but

Kenyans Rommy Bamrah and Harvey Jutley are shortly to make the 17,000-mile round trip from hometown Nairobi to Sol Rally Barbados 2012 (June 9/10) for their first-ever tarmac rally together, and the driver¹s first event outside Kenya. They will miss two local events, but were not going to turn down the chance to replace Harvey¹s UK-based

Rallying the familiar Subaru Impreza WRC S12 in its new livery for the first time, Roger Skeete and Louis Venezia won the Barbados Rally Club¹s (BRC) Valvoline Shakedown Stages on Sunday (May 6) by just under 10 seconds from Trinidad¹s John Powell. On a day of changing fortunes, Skeete won four of the 10 stages, Powell and last year¹s winner

As competitors in the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) Virgin Atlantic Driver¹s and Class Championships prepare for the upcoming Valvoline Shakedown Stages ­ round three of 10 in this year¹s series, to be run on Sunday, May 6 ­ Daryl Clarke and Neil Corbin are the early pace-setters in the Driver¹s title chase, with Sean Gill and Ian Warren leading