THE Drivers’ Rallysport Club (DRC) plans to begin its first full year of operation with an open club night at Off the Grid, St Andrew, next Tuesday.

“This is part of our plan to bring back the club element to Jamaican rallysport,” said Wayne Piper, DRC president.

The DRC plans to make this a regular happening every other month, in order to help promote the sport and also increase its membership base, by offering applications at each holding of the event. Members and guests alike will be updated on the benefits of being part of the DRC.

As part of the lymes, club business will be handled as well, ranging from access to key information, such as club accounts for members in good standing, to taking suggestions from the floor.

“We will be producing our own competition rule book, introducing a host of changes with the aim of simplifying and offering greater transparency to our sport,” said Piper.

The event will also mark the club’s first honorary member, current Rallysport champion Daryl King, who will receive free membership and entry into all DRC events for the 2014 season.

The DRC was established in May of 2013 as part of the divestment of organisational duties from the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club (JMMC) and was tasked in handling the main rallysport disciplines of dexterity, sprints, and rallying. His formation was billed as “a long time coming” by former JMMC president Errol Anderson. Despite its abrupt birth mid-motorsports season, the DRC was able to stage two rounds of both the dexterity and sprint championships, plus work with several other motorsports organisations in 2013.

“We set out with one of our aims being to make the member/competitors the centre of focus. We feel that we have achieved this aim through event reports and social media campaigns centred on the competitors and their sponsors,” Piper added.

For 2014 the DRC has eight events scheduled, beginning with a dexterity on May 11, the club’s first anniversary.

— Rory Daley