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Legendary pairing for Barbados Historic Rally Carnival
Posted June 30, 2011
To win the British Rally Championship in the days when the series represented serious, world-level motor sport was no mean achievement. Winning it no fewer than five times during that period makes Scot Jimmy McRae the most successful rally driver in the British Isles. On three of those championship wins (in 1981, 1982 and 1987), Jim was co-driven by slim, straight-talking, northern Englishman Ian Grindrod. Now in his late 50s, McRae's enthusiasm for competing in rallies is undiminished. He is d...
RallySprint King returns to Barbados Historic Rally Carnival
Posted May 3, 2011
Austrian Josef Pointinger had little idea what an adventure he was in for when he loaded his historic Mk1 Escort RS2000 onto a ship destined for Barbados back in 2003. He came away from the experience with class runner-up spot on the rally, a class win on the RallySprint, total domination of the RallySprint handicap races and narrowly missed winning the King of the Carnival prize on his first attempt. Josef returned in 2004 as co-driver in Ernst Harrach's Porsche 911, to better his results from...
Jimmy McRae at the 2011 Barbados Historic Rally Carnival
Posted April 27, 2011
"We had a great time last year; the atmosphere they have there is like rallying used to be in the UK 30 years ago." Telling words from five-times British Rally Champion Jimmy McRae, speaking about the Barbados Historic Rally Carnival. The most successful British Rally Championship competitor of all time is hooked, for more reasons than just competitive historic rallying and scoring a better finish than his 2010 second place overall: "They make you so welcome; everybody there - you're part of t...
Long-Term Support for Barbados Historic Rally Carnival
Posted April 4, 2011
The first Historic Rally Carnival held in Barbados last year has generated immense international exposure for the motorsport-mad island and event organisers are already preparing for larger national and international entries this year. The organisers' 2010 change - from modern to historic rallying format - for the ten-year-old event brings affordable motor sport into the well-established, two-week Rally Carnival cocktail of fun under the Caribbean sun. It has already caused a stir among the...
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