Local motorsport fans will have their deepest desires met and their passionate prayers answered as First Citizens King of the Hill makes its long-awaited return today. After last year’s cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, King of the Hill officially gets going at 10:30 a.m. at Content in St Thomas before concluding at the Vaucluse Raceway in the same parish. The sprint shakedown serves as a precursor to the island’s …
A classic showdown is in prospect in Sunday’s (May 28) First Citizens King of the Hill (KotH) when 87 crews go head-to-head in the final shakedown before Sol Rally Barbados 2022 (June 4/5), the 32nd running of the Barbados Rally Club’s premier event. A freshly-configured course will challenge local, regional and international drivers equally, providing the island’s huge fan base with their biggest rallying spectacle since 2019.Just a few days ago the organizers made a decision to change the route. It will now run from Content through the Dukes crossroads and on into the Vaucluse Raceway, where no changes to the course have been made. Cars will run in reverse order of performance, with the first of four runs - two each before and after the lunch break - slated for 10.30 a.m; there is no practice run, with the fastest time deciding competitors’ finishing positions.Rally director Neil Barnard said: “The Barbados Rally Club works diligently to foster good relationships with resid
Two diehard Welsh rally volunteers will finally head across the Atlantic this week for Sol Rally Barbados 2022 after winning the Marshals’ Prize Draw at Get Connected Rali Bae Ceredigion in September 2019, six months before the coronavirus pandemic began. Laura Sugden, from Pontyates in Carmarthenshire, will make the trip with her fiance Nathan Davies, who was also marshalling at the ground-breaking event, the first closed-road rally run in Wales.Laura and Nathan were among 666 volunteers, just one of many weekends each year spent rallying, either as competitors or volunteers. The sport is in their blood, Laura with a father and uncles who rally, 29-year-old Nathan a successful co-driver, while both used to be on the roster of volunteers at Wales Rally GB, Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship, which last ran in 2019. Even their son, who will be seven this year, shares his first name with Osian Pryce, who won the opening round of the British Rally Championship last month.
Barbadian Formula 3 race car driver Zane Maloney will be one of 90 entrants for Sol Rally Barbados over the weekend of June 4 and 5. Rally director Neil Barnard said a major re-think of the routes, longer stages, the return of rallying at night, a raft of new marketing partnerships, and a record entry in the growing FIA R5 class, including Maloney, will mark the return of the rally. …
Barbadian Formula 3 race car driver Zane Maloney will be one of 90 entrants for Sol Rally Barbados over the weekend of June 4 and 5. Rally director Neil Barnard said a major re-think of the routes, longer stages, the return of rallying at night, a raft of new marketing partnerships, and a record entry in the growing FIA R5 class, including Maloney, will mark the return of the rally. …