As Irish and UK rally competitors continued to look to new horizons to find competitive action while Foot and Mouth Disease stopped action on the home front, some set their eye on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Irish visitors were no stranger to the event with Kenny McKinstry having won the rally twice in the 90s, but by the new millennium the locals were much better equipped. Irish visitors Denis Biggerstaff, Richard Hogg and Sean McArdle were unable to trouble the locals, who on this occasion were in a class of their own. Trevor Manning and Roger Skeete battled it out all weekend and were eventually declared joint winners!