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4Just short of 100local entries faced 70from the widerCaribbean andcountries as farafield as New Zealand,Sierra Leone and theUnited States, withthe majority from theisland’s regularsource markets forrallying tourism, theUK. The event mirroredthe real-world SolRally Barbados as faras possible.Bovell's Auto Electrical & AirconditionCars , heavy equipment, ac or electricalproblems. We solve them all2nd ave Park Road St. Michael (246) 850-5399

Liam Carfraewith 25 specialstages, three onFriday night, 12 onSaturday and 10 onSunday; CRC used DirtRally 2.0’s Germanstages on Friday andSaturday, where thefast-flowing stagesare reminiscent ofthose in thetraditional BarbadosSunday in the southeastcorner of theisland. A BriefingMeeting via MicrosoftTeams was held preeventand the actionwas monitored by apanel of experiencedStewards.With a 20-hour windoweach day to allowcompetitors worldwideto tackle the stages– the UK is currentlyfive hours ahead, forinstance – it wasmaximum attack fromthe start,particularly for thefront-runners, withM-Sport World RallyChampionship codriverElliotEdmondson (he sitswith Gus Greensmith)the early leader onFriday. His dominancewas challenged byfellow-Brit LiamCarfrae, however,whose impressive timesusing a Controller tofinish third overallat the previousweekend’s King of thEHill had made everyonesit up. Gonsalvesflirted with disaster,however, too slow onthe first stage, thenpushing too hard onthe third resulting inrolling off the stage;he was lucky to getback on the road andend the day sixth,with Carfrae theovernight leader fromDominic Ollivierre ofSt Vincentand theGrenadines second,

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Just short of 100

local entries faced 70

from the wider

Caribbean and

countries as far

afield as New Zealand,

Sierra Leone and the

United States, with

the majority from the

island’s regular

source markets for

rallying tourism, the

UK. The event mirrored

the real-world Sol

Rally Barbados as far

as possible.

Bovell's Auto Electrical & Aircondition

Cars , heavy equipment, ac or electrical

problems. We solve them all

2nd ave Park Road St. Michael (246) 850-5399

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