Mud Dogs Safari Championship

THE TOUGH REPUTATION earned over more than 50 years by the Barbados Rally Club\'s (BRC) longest-standing event looks set to be maintained when the Shelbury Construction June Safari runs off on Saturday and Sunday.

The second round of the 2008 BRC Mud Dogs Safari Championship – the season\'s most important navigational event – promises once again to challenge man and machine, in much the same way as the June Rally has done every year since 1957.

The start is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Saturday outside the International Trade Centre (ITC) building at Warrens, St Michael, after which competitors face about four hours of activity before the stop-over at the Sand Dunes Restaurant, Belleplaine, St Andrew, about 6 p.m.

The evening route will bring crews back to ITC by roughly 11 p.m. The Sunday morning restart from Searles, Christ Church, is slated for 8 a.m., with the finish at the same venue five hours later.

New entry procedures in place for this event will carry forward into future rounds of the Mud Dogs Championship.

Chairman of the BRC Mud Dogs sub-committee, Leslie Alleyne, explained the new system.

\"All future events in 2008 will have the same arrangement, but there will be a penalty for entries taken at the briefing. Our aim is that in 2009, no entries will be processed at the briefing meetings.

\"There are two main reasons. First, it is an almost impossible task to have accurate information pertaining to club membership and BMF status when entries are being processed at different locations. Also the time involved that evening is considerable.\"