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Six new names are listed among the 22 overall and class champions confirmed today (Friday) by the Barbados Rally Club (BRC) following a successful 2025 season. More than 230 competitors regularly participated in the Club’s varied motor sport disciplines, with a record number of 70 local crews starting its premier event, BCIC Rally Barbados.
Jamaica’s Kyle Gregg is a BRC Champion for the first time, adding the 4wd and FIA R5 class titles to his victory in BCIC RB25. Those who boosted their cvs include Edward Corbin, Champion Driver for the third time, and Rhett Watson, who becomes the only four-time winner in 15 years of the 2wd Championship, also SuperModified 2 Champion.
In the Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship, Leslie Alleyne and Chris O’Neal further extended their record totals as Champion Driver and Navigator to nine and eight respectively, while Alexander and Chelsea Gill (nee Clarke), who were married in June, are first-time Class B Champions.
And there was family success in Autocross, too: Geoff Ullyett is the Champion Driver, his first motor sport title for nearly 10 years, while his son Daniel won both the Junior and Motoring News Rookie Championships.
Corbin adds this year’s Champion Driver title to those of 2022 and 2019. Apart from an engine failure in his Daihatsu Charmant in the reverse direction of the Summer Sprint in August, he won the SuperModified 1 class every time, his DNF covered by the dropped score rule and giving him the maximum possible 148 points.
Kurt Thompson finished the season four points adrift, beaten once in Modified 4 by his brother Mark, as they battled in matching Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IXs, with two-time Champion Driver Neil Corbin third, scoring 136 to win M2 in his Toyota GT86 CS-R3. Gregg (Ford Fiesta Rally2) was fourth overall, Watson (BMW M3) fifth and Ryan Wood sixth, winning Clubman 3 in his BimmaCup Too.
Also BMW-mounted were first-time class Champion David St Hill, who won M3, and David-Anthony Balgobin, who became the fourth different C2 Champion in four years, adding a first rally title to his Autocross Rookie win of last year. Victory in C1 gave Shawn Brathwaite (Toyota Corolla) his first Rally Club class win, while Mark Huggins (Daihatsu Charmant) won the Open Class (formerly Group B) for a second time.
Ullyett won the BRC Autocross Championship outright and the 2wd Race Tyres class in a Caterham Seven 310R, victory in all five rounds at Bushy Park giving him the maximum possible 75 points. The top two in the 4wd Street Tyres class, Tfphill Juman (Evo VII) and Jason John (Subaru Impreza STi) finished second and third on 73 and 61 points respectively, with Callum Kirton (BimmaCup) and 2wd Street Tyres Champion Andros Welch (Toyota GT86) completing the top five. Sameisha Williams (BimmaCup) won the Ladies Category.
Multiple MudDogs Champions Alleyne and O’Neal (Suzuki Jimny) missed the final round of the Championship, which was won by Ben Norris and Kirk Watkins (Jeep Rubicon), which secured them second place overall, ahead of the Gills in (Isuzu D-Max). Their margin of victory in Class B was just four points, beating Chelsea’s sister Rebecca Clarke and navigator Austin Barber.
BRC Driver’s Championship
Final Overall Positions after round 9:
Champion - Edward Corbin (SM1 Daihatsu Charmant), 148 points
2nd Kurt Thompson (M4 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX), 144pts
3rd Neil Corbin (M2 Toyota GT86 CS-R3), 136pts
4th Kyle Gregg – JAM (FIA Ford Fiesta Rally2), 135pts
5th Rhett Watson (SM2 BMW M3), 132pts
6th Robert Ryan Wood (C3 BimmaCup Too), 127pts; etc
BRC Class Championship
Final Positions after round 9:
WRC: Champion - Dane Skeete (Subaru Impreza WRC S12), 90pts
FIA R5: Champion – K Gregg, 135pts; 2nd Jeffrey Panton – JAM (Ford Fiesta Rally2), 97pts; 3rd Josh Read (Ford Fiesta Rally2), 86pts; etc
Modified 4: Champion - K Thompson, 144pts; 2nd Kyle Catwell (Audi TT-R), 85pts; 3rd Mark Thompson (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX), 72pts; etc
SuperModified 2: Champion - R Watson, 132pts; 2nd Nigel Reece (Toyota Starlet), 88pts; 3rd Andrew Jones (Ford Escort MkII), 82pts; etc
SM1: Champion - E Corbin, 148pts; 2nd Roger Jordan (Toyota Starlet), 95pts; 3rd Darren Lashley (Toyota Starlet), 71pts
M3: Champion - David St Hill (BMW M3), 61pts; 2nd Jonathan Still (BMW M3), 50pts; 3rd Wayne Archer (BMW), 15pts; etc
M2: Champion - N Corbin, 136pts; 2nd Sean Corbin (BMW 318ti Compact), 116pts; 3rd Jermin Pope (Honda Civic), 31pts
M1: Champion - Natya Soodeen (F) (Peugeot 208 R2), 34pts
Clubman 3: Champion - Wood, 127pts; 2nd Kevin Armstrong (BMW 325i), 91pts; 3rd Kamal Quimby (BMW), 87pts
C2: Champion - David-Anthony Balgobin (BimmaCup), 114pts; 2nd Stewart Gordon - ANT (BimmaCup), 112pts; 3rd Chris Hoad (BimmaCup), 111pts; etc
C1: Champion - Shawn Brathwaite (Toyota Corolla), 112pts; 2nd Kyle Gill (Mitsubishi Colt), 95pts
Open Class: Champion - Mark Huggins (Daihatsu Charmant), 91pts; 2nd Sean Merritt (Toyota Starlet Turbo), 66pts; 3rd Chadane Holder (Toyota Starlet), 56pts; etc
BRC 4wd Championship: Champion – Gregg - JAM, 142pts; 2nd Skeete, 99pts; 3rd Panton - JAM, 91pts; 4th Read, 83pts; 5th Stuart Maloney (FIA R5 Skoda Fabia RS Rally2), 81pts; 6th Rob Swann – ENG (FIA R5 Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo), 76pts; etc
BRC 2wd Championship: Champion - Watson, 133pts; 2nd N Corbin, 100pts; 3rd Reece, 88pts; 4th Jones, 81pts; 5th E Corbin, 76pts; 6th Barry Mayers (SM2 Ford Fiesta), 69pts; etc
Chefette MudDogs Safari Championship
Final positions after round 5:
Overall Drivers & Navigators:
Champions - Leslie Alleyne/Chris O’Neal (Suzuki Jimny Sport), 238 points
2nd Ben Norris/Kirk Watkins (Jeep Rubicon), 236pts
3rd Alexander Gill/Chelsea Gill (F) (Isuzu DMax), 218pts
4th Christopher King/Warrick Eastmond (Suzuki Jimny), 214pts
5th Rebecca Clarke (F)/Austin Barber (Mitsubishi Pajero iO), 208pts; etc
Class B Drivers & Navigators:
Champions - Gill/Gill (F), 238pts; 2nd Clarke (F)/Barber, 234pts; 3rd Tyrone Chase/Sameisha Williams (F) (Suzuki Vitara), 222pts
BRC Autocross Championship
Final Overall positions after round 5:
Champion – Geoffrey Ullyett (Caterham Seven 310R), 75 points
2nd Tfphill Juman (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII), 73pts
* 3rd Jason John (Subaru Impreza STi), 61pts
* 4th Callum Kirton (BimmaCup), 61pts
5th Andros Welch (Toyota GT86), 58pts; etc
* tie-break rules applied for final positions
4wd (Street Tyres): Champion - Juman, 73pts; 2nd John, 61pts; 3rd John Gonsalves (Lancer Evo VII), 34pts; etc
2wd (Race Tyres): Champion – G Ullyett, 75pts; 2nd Daniel Small (Crosskart), 58pts; 3rd Daniel Ullyett (BimmaCup), 51pts; etc
2wd (Street Tyres): Champion - Welch, 58pts; 2nd Damien Johnson (Toyota Altezza), 52pts; 3rd Zachary John (Toyota Chaser), 47pts; etc
Motoring News Rookies: Champion – D Ullyett, 51pts; 2nd Axel Goodridge (BimmaCup), 41pts; 3rd Ian Weekes (Toyota Starlet/Nissan March), 21pts; etc
Ladies: Champion - Sameisha Williams (BimmaCup), 13pts; 2nd Merlissa Ince (Honda Civic), 12pts; 3rd Cheryl-Ann Hurley (Hyundai Ioniq), 2pts
Juniors: Champion – D Ullyett, 51pts; 2nd Goodridge, 41pts; 3rd Raizer Stoute (BimmaCup), 11pts; etc
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