The SOL RALLY BARBADOS Festival is an International All-Stage Rally and the Caribbean's biggest annual international motor sport event, annually attracting around 100 crews, at least one-third of them from the wider Caribbean and further afield.
From small beginnings in 1990 as a one-day event with only 30 local competitors, Sol Rally Barbados has grown into one of the strongest sporting brand names in the region, with visitors from as far afield as Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. It is also a major contributor to the island's sports-tourism product.
The event now attracts over 25,000 spectators and has played host over the years to nearly 350 overseas competitors and perhaps 10 times that number of their family, friends and supporters. As well as 100 participants from territories within the Caribbean, more than 200 have journeyed from 21 countries outside the region, mainly from Europe, but also including including Australia, Kenya, New Zealand and South Africa.
Sol Rally Barbados, which is organised by the Barbados Rally Club, is a two-day tarmac rally which is held in late May or early June, generating over 30 hours of television coverage to approx. 550 million homes worldwide. It is staged over one weekend, with more than 20 special stages spread across the island between Friday and Sunday evenings, with Scrutineering and the LIME King of the Hill ‘shakedown’ the previous weekend.
An extensive programme of social activities allows return visitors and newcomers alike to enjoy the many other attractions Barbados has to offer, while the one-of-a-kind Prize-giving party at the popular Boatyard Beach Club on the Monday after, sees competitors focus on celebrating the experience . . . rather than on their results.
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