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Eddie Jordan joins Top Gear Festival Line-up

Tuesday 18th March, 2014
The Barbados Tourism Authority and Top Gear Festival have announced that legendary Formula One team-owner and commentator Eddie Jordan is set to join the star-studded line-up at the inaugural Top Gear Festival Barbados, from 17-18 May. Jordan rejoins the Festival as a host, after making an appearance at Top Gear Festival South Africa in 2011. He...
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Paving starts at Bushy Park Barbados

Wednesday 26th February, 2014
Contractors working on the comprehensive refurbishment of the 40-year-old Bushy Park Circuit in Barbados started the last lap of phase one of the programme yesterday (Tuesday, February 25). Almost exactly six months since the transformation begin, the first tarmac was laid on the St Philip circuit, an exciting - and emotional - moment for the...
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Lewis Hamilton joins Top Gear Festival Barbados

Thursday 20th February, 2014
Top Gear Festival announced today that 2008 Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, is set to join the star-studded line-up of world famous presenters and motor sport legends at the inaugural Top Gear Festival in Barbados from 17-18 May. As part of an action-packed weekend of motoring spectacles, the British Grand Prix ace will take to the...
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Global Rallycross to compete at Top Gear Festival

Wednesday 5th February, 2014
Top Gear Festival Barbados announced today that it will host an international round of this year's Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship adding to the already impressive line-up of motoring entertainment taking place at the festival on the 17th & 18th May this year. The action-packed weekend, which takes place at the newly renovated Bushy...
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Top Gear Festival Barbados

Wednesday 18th December, 2013
Top Gear Festival will make its Americas debut on the Caribbean island of Barbados at the newly renovated Bushy Park Circuit on 17-18 May, 2014. Hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, Top Gear Festival Barbados will feature an awe-inspiring line up of cars and driving talent including The Stig, the Top Gear Stunt Team and guest...
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Bushy Park on Target for March Completion

Monday 9th December, 2013
The first phase of the redevelopment of the 40-year-old Bushy Park race track in Barbados into a multipurpose motor sport facility is on target for completion at the end of March 2014. With the major groundworks for the track almost finished, attention is now turning to other aspects, including spectator facilities and drainage. The original 1.3-...
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Bushy Park Developers in for the long term

Friday 8th November, 2013
The developers behind the upgrade of the 40-year-old Bushy Park race track in Barbados into a multipurpose motor sport facility are in it for the long term, for the good of the island's sports-tourism product . . . and would be delighted if it also provided the springboard to create the Caribbean's next Lewis Hamilton. In the first phase of the...
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Something for everyone at the New Bushy Park

Friday 18th October, 2013
When the Bushy Park race track in Barbados reopens next year as a multi-purpose motor sport facility, the developers intend to make it "a hub of activity" year-round that will add another world-class product to the island's vital sports-tourism offering. In the first phase of the redevelopment, the original 1.3-kilometre layout is being extended...
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Positive feedback on Bushy Park redevelopment

Friday 27th September, 2013
The redevelopment of the 40-year-old Bushy Park race track in Barbados into a multi purpose motor sport facility has been welcomed not only at home, where it will provide a springboard for sustained growth of the island's most popular spectator sport, but also regionally and internationally. A grant from motor sport's world governing body, the...
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Work starts on Bushy Park redevelopment

Friday 6th September, 2013
Work has started on Phase 1 of a comprehensive upgrade of the 40-year-old Bushy Park race track in Barbados into a multi-purpose motor sport facility, which will provide a springboard for sustained growth of the island's most popular spectator sport. The works contractor moved on to the 65-acre site in the south-eastern parish of St Philip last...
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