Entries open for BCIC Rally Barbados 2025

The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) is stepping up preparations for next year’s 35th edition of its premier event by returning to its traditional date for opening entries. The entry form for BCIC Rally Barbados 2025 will go live on the official web site - www.rallybarbados.net – at noon local time on Tuesday, October 1, 5.00pm in the UK and Ireland; the entry window will close in mid-April 2025.
 Subject to final ratification by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), BCIC RB25 will run from Friday, May 30 to Sunday, June 1. The Rally Show (May 24), where a display of every car entered is the focal point of a huge celebration of island rallying, and the final shakedown and seeding event, King of the Hill (May 25), fill the previous weekend.

 Event Director Neil Barnard said: “This year’s event, the first with our new title sponsor BCIC, was a huge success, with a record number of starters and a record number of finishers. As I said last month when we confirmed our dates for next year, we really feel that the Rally Club has turned the corner after a few challenging years, primarily because of the coronavirus pandemic.

 “For many years before that, back to the early 2010s, October 1 was our regular date for opening entries and as we move ahead with plans for the 35th edition of our blue riband event, we are returning to that date. It gives us an early indication of potential numbers, particularly among our overseas visitors, which plays an important part in how we approach other elements of our event planning.”

 BCIC RB25 will be the first edition run to the Rally Club’s new Vehicle Classification Regulations (VCR), which are in force for the next three-year cycle, 2025 to 2027; these will be available in due course on the web site under the Competitors heading. Highlights among the changes include Group B being renamed Open Class and updated to cater for 2wd cars built before 2011 (previously 1986), while both the Clubman and Modified classes will now allow two- as well as four-seater cars.

 Rally Barbados is a tarmac rally, with around 20 special stages run on the island’s intricate network of public roads, under road closure orders granted by the Ministry of Transport & Works; the previous Sunday’s King of the Hill ‘shakedown’, run under a similar arrangement and features four timed runs on a roughly four-kilometre stage, the results of which are used to seed the running order for the main event.

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