RALLY CLUB CELEBRATES SEASON’S END More than 120 awards presented at Annual Prizegiving

RALLY CLUB CELEBRATES SEASON’S END
More than 120 awards presented at Annual Prizegiving
All sides of the island’s motor sport fraternity were honoured at the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) Annual Prizegiving on Friday evening (November 29) at Chapel Plantation, St Philip; more than 120 awards were presented, including return tickets to London, courtesy of Virgin Atlantic, title sponsor of the BRC Driver’s and Class Championships.
  Among the evening’s awardees were the sport’s volunteers, for whom some of the loudest applause was reserved; long-standing marshals Biddy Barber, Douglas Boyce, Ian Clarke and Everton Smart were acknowledged with trophies, along with others in the Outstanding Marshal and Rookie Marshal categories.
  The BRC’s youngest Champion Driver, 21-year-old Conor Roach, is currently at school out of the island, so his father, Derek, who won the title in 1991 and 1992, collected the awards on his behalf. Roach ended the season tied on 150 points with Rhett Watson and the dropped-score rule settled the outcome: each had failed to win his class only once, but Roach’s lowest score was 13 points while Watson’s was 15, so Roach won by two points. The BRC 4wd Championship was won by Roger Hill and Graham Gittens, with Josh Read and Mark Jordan carrying off the trophies in 2wd.
  New for 2013, additional awards of free entry for the 2014 BRC Driver’s Championship were presented to Roach, as Clubman Champion, and Watson, as the highest points-scorers in the combined SuperModified classes; they were also won by Neil Corbin (Modified classes), Geoff Noel (4wd classes) and Stuart White (Historic).
  In the Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, Chris O’Neal won the Sextant Challenge Trophy as Champion Navigator for the first time, with Leslie Alleyne adding a fourth Champion Driver title to those he won in 2006, ’08 & ’11, again taking home the Peter Farmer Memorial Trophy. Andy Williams and Joshua Plaza were Chefette Novice Champion Navigator and Driver respectively, winning free entry to the 2014 BRC MudDogs Safari Championship in addition to their trophies, while Omar Boodhoo won an unprecedented fourth Autocross Championship crown.
  Club officials thanked the sport’s stakeholders, including marshals, officials, sponsors and the media for contributing to another successful season before members had a chance to look back over another successful season and enjoy a number of motor sport films, including British production company Greenlight TV’s coverage of Sol Rally Barbados 2013, which has already been broadcast in more than 120 countries outside the Caribbean.
Barbados Rally Club Annual Prizegiving
Chapel Plantation, St Philip
Friday, November 29, 2013
List of Award Winners
Virgin Atlantic BRC Driver’s Championship
The Champion received two Virgin Atlantic Economy return tickets to London (inc of all taxes); each driver received a trophy
Champion Driver: Conor Roach (Clubman Chattel House Realty Peugeot 106), 137 points
2nd Rhett Watson (SM12 Oreo/Chips Ahoy!/Armstrong Agencies/Power King Batteries/Unknown Entity/Hankook Tyres/SpringBoard Marketing Platforms/In Support of Little Pink Gift BMW M3), 135pts
3rd Geoff Noel (GpN Globe Finance/Kick Energy Drink/Sentry Insurance Brokers/Automotive Art/CIAC Air Conditioners/Mix 96.9FM/Dewalt Tools Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX), 128pts
4th Neil Corbin (M6 Nassco/Jason Jones/Auto Solutions/Castrol/Emtage Electric Toyota Starlet), 111pts
5th Roger Hill (WRC-2 Esso/Nassco/MotorMac Toyota Corolla WRC), 110pts
6th Josh Read (SM10 Stihl/Gliptone/Hankook/SDRR/Weetabix/Royal Purple/EZone/Coffee Bean Toyota Starlet), 109pts
7th Ian Warren (SM10 Simpson Motors/Automotive Art Suzuki Swift), 107pts
8th Edward Corbin (M7 Valvoline/Automotive Art/Prosales/Klarkodio/Corbins Garage Toyota Corolla RunX), 106pts
9th Roger Skeete (WRC-1 Sol/Michelin/Simpson Motors/Da Costa Mannings Auto Centre Subaru Impreza WRC S12), 105pts
10th Andrew Jones (SM11 Lucozade/AP Jones Pharmacy Ford Escort MkII), 103pts
BRC 4wd Championship
The Champion Driver received a Virgin Atlantic Economy return ticket to London (inc of all taxes); each driver and co-driver received a trophy
Champions: Roger Hill/Graham Gittens, 115pts
2nd Roger Skeete/Louis Venezia, 112pts
3rd Geoff Noel/Nigel Reece, 95pts
4th Dean Serrao/Josh Delmas, 93pts
5th Neil Armstrong/Barry Ward (WRC-1 Monster/Sol/Chefette/Digicel/Virgin Atlantic/Gunk/Hankook Tyres/Redline Fuels/Simpson Finance/Simpson Motors Suzuki SX4 WRC), 64pts
BRC 2wd Championship
The Champion Driver received a Virgin Atlantic Economy return ticket to London (inc of all taxes); each driver and co-driver received a trophy
Champions: Josh Read/Mark Jordan, 106pts
2nd Ian Warren/Robert Warren, 102pts
3rd Rhett Watson/Sean Corbin, 91pts
4th Neil Corbin/Matthew Staffner, 69pts
5th Roger Mayers/Barry Mayers (SM10 Chefette/Digicel/Pennzoil/Illusion Graphics/Hankook WR Starlet), 66pts
Highest-placed female driver - Shannon Kirton
Highest-placed female co-driver – Talia Mapp
Virgin Atlantic BRC Class Championship
Each driver received a trophy. New awards of free entry (not inc insurance) to the 2014 BRC Driver’s Championship were presented to Geoff Noel (4wd), Rhett Watson (SuperModified), Neil Corbin (Modified), Stuart White (Historic) and Conor Roach (Clubman)
WRC-1 - Champion: Skeete, 105pts; 2nd, Armstrong, 79pts; 3rd Paul Bourne (Chefette/Banks/LIME/Castrol Ford Focus WRC06), 48pts
WRC-2 – Champion: Hill, 110pts; 2nd Serrao, 98pts
Group A - Champion: Avinash Chatrani (Electric Avenue/iShop Barbados/PowerBass/Formula 1/Sign Station/1 of K Jeans/Niagra Waters Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI), 66pts
GpN - Champion: Noel, 128pts; 2nd Andrew Mallalieu (Terra Caribbean Subaru Impreza N10), 98pts; 3rd Harold Morley (Ontrac Vehicle Tracking/Booth Steamship/Crowley Shipping Subaru Impreza N14), 37pts
SuperModified 12 - Champion: Watson, 135pts; 2nd Martin Atwell (Ullyett's Machine Shop BMW M3), 67pts; 3rd Trevor Manning (Ritz/Club Social/Armstrong Agencies/Power King Batteries/Unknown Entity/Hankook Tyres/SpringBoard Marketing Platforms/In Support of Little Pink Gift BMW M3), 64pts
SM11 - Champion: Andrew Jones (Lucozade/AP Jones Pharmacy Ford Escort MkII), 103pts; 2nd Eric Allamby (Shelbury Construction/Blakey’s/This & That Bajan/Scrap Man Recycling/Castrol/SDRR Hydraulics/Redline Racing Fuels/MC Buccaneer/Goodyear Tyres Toyota Corolla), 60pts; 3rd Dane Skeete (Rubis/Williams Trading Inc Peugeot 306 Maxi), 48pts
SM10 - Champion: Read, 109pts; 2nd Warren, 107pts; 3rd Mayers, 69pts
SM9 - Champion: Rhett D’Andrade (Rent-A-Tool Daihatsu Charmant), 64pts; 2nd Mark Kinch (Toyota Starlet), 37pts; 3rd Carlos Edwards (I-Finance/Courts Barbados/Enermax Toyota Starlet), 32pts
Modified 7 - Champion: E Corbin, 106pts; 2nd Paul Horton (Sky Motorsports/Java Island/H Racing/Precision Racing Ford Escort MkI), 77pts; 3rd Daryl Clarke (Amir’s Fresh Chicken/Ellco/Mum’s Pasta/P & N Hardware/Robert’s Manufacturing Honda Civic), 74pts
M6 & M5 merged - Champion: N Corbin, 111pts; 2nd Sean Cox (M5 Simpson Motors/Gliptone/Johnsen’s Suzuki Swift Gti, 56pts; 3rd Wayne Archer (M6 Archers Hall Design Centre/Diamonds International/Calvin Alkins Customs Services Peugeot 206), 45pts
Clubman - Champion: Roach, 137pts; 2nd Jeremy Croney (Warren’s Lubricants/SRG Engineering/Sign Station/Sweet Temptations Peugeot 206), 102pts; 3rd Trevor Mapp (Valvoline Lubricants/Automotive Art/Mackeson Stoute/Ellesmere Quarries/Chicken Pen Racing/Freekz Customz/Codgi's Customs Brokers Mitsubishi Mirage RS), 95pts
Historic - Champion: Stuart White (Lucky Locks BMW 325), 81pts; 2nd John Corbin (Valvoline/Automotive Art/Prosales/Klarkodio/Corbins Garage Toyota Corolla, 11pts
GpB - Champion: Duane Johnson (Johnson’s Autos/Williams Tools/Cyrus Chickens/Dalls Catering/Castrol/Third Lane Performance/AS Auto Stop Inc/Sandy Thelius/Illusion Graphics/AG Agencies Ltd/Odoll’s Aluminium Mitsubishi Lancer Turbo), 46pts; 2nd Geoffrey Ullyett (Ullyett's Machine Shop/Algae-X/MG America Datsun 200Y), 37pts; 3rd Randy Reid (Double A Transport & Wrecker Service BMW 320i), 30pts
Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship
The Champions received the Sextant Challenge Trophy (Navigator) and the Peter Farmer Memorial Trophy (Driver), plus two Virgin Atlantic Economy return tickets to London (inc of all taxes); second and third Navigator and Driver each received a trophy
Champion Navigator: Chris O’Neal (Simpson Motors/Shell Rimula/Shell Spirax/Maxxis Tyres Isuzu D-Max), 236pts
2nd Jeremy Croney (CC Motorsports and Friends Suzuki Vitara), 232pts
3rd Andrew Croney (Isuzu D-Max & Insurance Solutions Inc/Sweet Temptations Mitsubishi Pajero), 228pts
Champion Driver: Leslie Alleyne (Simpson Motors/Shell Rimula/Shell Spirax/Maxxis Tyres Isuzu D-Max), 236pts
2nd Audley Croney (CC Motorsports and Friends Suzuki Vitara), 232pts
3rd George Mendes (G & G Sales & Service Mitsubishi L200 Sportero), 212pts
Chefette MudDogs Novice Safari Championship
Each received a trophy and a Barbecue Barn voucher; the Champion Novice Driver and Navigator also received free entry (not including insurance) to the 2014 MudDogs Safari Championship
Champion Novice Driver: Joshua Plaza (Boston Jerk Pit/Auto Solutions Suzuki Samurai), 236pts
2nd Dave Gibson (Suzuki Samurai), 226pts
Champion Novice Navigator: Andy Williams (Suzuki Samurai), 228pts
Championship Sponsor Appreciation Award - Chefette Restaurants
Joan Alleyne Memorial Trophy (Highest-placed Female Navigator) – Trina Griffith
MudDogs Helpers Appreciation Awards - Pete & Judy Bradshaw (a mop & bucket) and Audley Croney (a photograph)
Chefette Rookie of the Year – Richard Hinkson
Special Novice Mentions - Driver Richard Hinkson and Navigators Jamal Brathwaite & Rashid Nakhuda
BRC Autocross Championship
Each driver received a trophy
Champion: Omar Boodhoo (Suzuki Swift), 20pts
equal 2nd Jason Downey (Toyota Corolla RunX) & Richard Hinkson (Toyota Corolla), 17pts
4th Jamal Boodhoo (Mitsubishi Colt), 13pts
equal 5th, Marc Gill (Peugeot 106 S16) & Tricia Williams (Mitsubishi Colt), 7pts
Special Awards
Rookie Award, a $1,000 Automotive Art gift voucher – David St Hill (SM12 BMW M3)
Richard Roett Memorial Trophy – Jeff Bovell
Golden Turkey Award – Roger Sargeant
Marshals Awards
Each marshal received a trophy
Long-standing Marshal: Douglas Boyce, Ian Clarke, Everton Smart; Biddy Barber (Mud Dogs)
Outstanding Marshal: Gregg Agard, Rozlyn Daniel, Torura Leacock; Michael Ward (Mud Dogs)
Rookie Marshal: Trevor Agard, Rashida Haynes, Orlando Payne; Reihanna Bulbulia (Mud Dogs)
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Photos Himal Reece, Just Bajan