|  This the second round of the Texaco BRC Rally Championship has attracted the largest four-wheel-drive entry, 10 cars, seen since Rally Barbados last year.
They will tackle 12 special stages, including a SuperSpecial at Bushy Park, which will round off the days action before prize-giving in the Club House. The first car is scheduled to start at 8 a.m. from the Colleton Plantation Yard, where Rally Control and the Service Park are also situated.
During the morning, there will be three runs each from Mapps to Stewarts Hill, and from Featherbed Lane to Woodland, before a lunch break slated for 11:35 a.m.
The afternoon will see those stages run in the reverse direction, with two runs from Stewarts Hill and three from Woodland, before the Bushy Park SuperSpecial, scheduled to start a little after 4 p.m.
With a special stage distance of 48.20 kms, this will be the biggest challenge faced so far this season by island crews, so offers an ideal warm-up for Rally Barbados.
The two-wheel-drive competitors are led by Adrian and Jackie Linton, who claimed a memorable overall win in the equivalent event last year in their Vauxhall Astra GSi. Sean Gill and Michael Cummins in the Suzuki Swift, Jonathan Still and Heath Hazell in the BMW M3 and Roger Skeete and Ian Griffith in the Peugeot 306 Maxi make up the other two wheel drive front runners.
A full entry list will be published once the seeding order is confirmed.
Gale noted that it is not just a warm-up for competitors, From the Clubs point of view, this is also a true warm-up for Rally Barbados. The officials and marshals who are running these stages will all be working over that weekend, also the timing crews and those persons staffing Rally Control. It provides an excellent opportunity for us to spot any snags in our organisation, and allows time to resolve them before Rally Barbados.
There is a Briefing Meeting at 7 p.m. today at the BCTSA Clubhouse at Searles, Christchurch, at which attendance is mandatory for all competitors to receive final instructions and competition numbers.
Scrutineering will be at Bushy Park on Saturday, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The Carnival Warm-Up Tarmac Rally is also a round of the Banks Championship, organised by the Motoring Club of Barbados Inc.
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