Victory in the first event of the Motoring Club’s Burger King Full Throttle Double Header had increased Stuart Maloney’s championship lead from 20 to 30 points over Roger Hill, who was in turn now coming under pressure from Britain’s Rob Swann. After the lunch break, the reverse direction carried competitors from Harrow to Golden Grove, again passing through the Bushy Park triangle, the tight hairpin left catching out one or two competitors including Ben Hartling who ran wide on to the grass on his only run before retiring so the crew could deal with a cracked exhaust pumping fumes into the Fiesta.

Maloney had no intention of playing catch-up for a second time, his 2m 40.24s clocked on the first run fastest by 1sec, with his brother Mark second (2:41.25), Swann third (2:43.26) and Josh Read fourth (2:44.19). Read lost a lot of time on the second run, however, slipping to the back of the nine remaining cars, as the Maloneys held on to first (Stuart, 2:37.61) and second (Mark, 2:40.02), with Swann (2:40.37), Jamaica’s Jeff Panton (2:41.34) and Andrew Mallalieu (2:43.42) now the closest challengers.

The day’s third run, which saw all nine drivers improve their times, would prove to be the last, as the fourth was cancelled. Stuart Maloney secured his second event win of the day, bringing his time down to 2:35.80 for a commanding winning margin of more than 3secs over Read (2:39.14), who leapfrogged up to second place ahead of Mark Maloney (2:39.61) and Swann (2:39.91), just eight-tenths covering that very evenly-matched trio. Fifth place for Panton (2:40.71) and sixth for Hill (2:41.53) kept them in the hunt at the top of the table, although Hill had slipped behind Swann and Panton found Read closing on his fifth place.

Round 9 – Burger King Full Throttle, Event 2 (Motoring Club Barbados Inc)

Harrow to Golden Grove – August 20

Results

1st Stuart Maloney (Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo), 2m 35.80s

2nd Josh Read (Ford Fiesta R5), + 03.34s

3rd Mark Maloney (Skoda Fabia Rally2 evo), + 03.81s

4th Rob Swann (Ford Fiesta Rally2), + 04.11s

5th Jeff Panton (Ford Fiesta Rally2), + 04.91s

6th Roger Hill (Skoda Fabia R5), + 05.73s

7th Andrew Mallalieu (Ford Fiesta R5), + 06.91s

8th Stan Hartling (Ford Fiesta R5), + 09.31s

9th Paul Horton (Ford Fiesta R5), + 12.04s

dnf Ben Hartling (Ford Fiesta R5)

Championship points

After round 9

1st Stuart Maloney 156

2nd Rob Swann 113

3rd Roger Hill 112

4th Mark Maloney 106

5th Jeff Panton 89

6th Josh Read 87

7th Paul Horton 59

8th Andrew Mallalieu 57

9th Suleman Esuf 26

10th Stan Hartling 15

11th Brian Gill 11

12th Ben Hartling 8