Rally Barbados: Gregg and Hutchinson prevail.

Jamaica's Gary Gregg and Hugh Hutchinson became the first overseas competitors in eight years to carry away the crown jewel of Barbados motor sport at the weekend [June 3/4] when they won Rally Barbados 2006 by a margin of a little under five seconds.

In a dominant display of driving in the BD Gregg Bros/McEnearney Quality Inc Ford Focus WRC, reigning Jamaican champion Gregg was fastest on 13 of the 19 stages which counted toward the result. The trophy last left the island in 1998, when Gregg's fellow-countrymen Jeffrey Panton and John de Mercado won in a Toyota Celica GT4.

Winners in 2003 Paul Bourne and Louis Venezia finished second, with the much-improved Simpson Motors/Shell Helix/Automotive Art/VISA/Garbage Master Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII of 1999 winner Trevor Manning and co-driver James Betts coming home third.

With a penalty hanging over Gregg and Hutchinson, Bourne and Venezia were initially declared the winners when provisional results were published on Sunday evening after the DMS Distributors.com SuperSprint at the Vaucluse Raceway; a protest dealt with by the event Stewards during Monday, however, resulted in the local crew dropping to second place and Manning/Betts to third.