BRITAIN’S KEVIN PROCTER will mark his tenth appearance in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event when he lines up for Sol Rally Barbados 2015 (Sol RB 15) at the wheel of his Subaru Impreza WRC S7.
His entry has been confirmed just days after he won the year-end Swift Signs Christmas Stages Rally in the North of England for the sixth time in seven years.
Sol RB15 will run on Saturday and Sunday, May 30 and 31, with scrutineering and the King Of The Hill shakedown event the previous weekend, May 23-24.
25th anniversary
Nearly 60 entries have already been received for the 25th anniversary running of the event via the official web site, www.rallybarbados.net, where the on-line entry list is now ‘live’.
For his return to Barbados, Procter’s co-driver will be Philip Hopkins, who co-drove in the island for the first time last year, when Procter finished seventh overall for the second consecutive year. It was also his sixth top 10 finish. His best is fourth in 2009.
Since the WRC-2 class, catering for world cars built before the end of 2003, was introduced in 2013, Procter has finished third to Britain’s Roger Duckworth (Impreza WRC S6) and local Toyota dealer Roger Hill (Corolla WRC) two years ago, then second to Duckworth last year.
Rhett Watson, the BRC’s Champion Driver for 2014 and fellow Race of Champions (ROC) Caribbean winner Dane Skeete, headline a list of top local drivers taking part.
In SuperModified 12, Watson’s opposition will include the BMW M3 of David St Hill, while there are currently no further local entries in SM11, where Skeete campaigns his Peugeot 306 Maxi. Multiple circuit-racing champion Mark Thompson is the first local four-wheel-drive entry, in his Group N Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX.
Former BRC Champion Driver Neil Corbin – he won the overall title in 2012 – is listed in Modified 6 in the Toyota Starlet in which he won the Class Championship in 2012 and 2013; the opposition will include Paul Inniss in his Honda Civic.
The M6 Champion for the previous two years, Jamal Brathwaite, appears for the third year in his M7 Honda Civic Type-R, while reigning Clubman Champion Eric Allamby (Toyota Corolla) remains in Clubman, where he will face Brathwaite’s father Trevor Mapp, among others, in the Mitsubishi Colt Mivec RS, which his son used to campaign. (PR/MK)
