Daredevils from Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados will push their start buttons today as their high velocity machines line up for the final leg of the 2013 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the South Dakota Circuit.
Motor racing fans will see some of the fastest machines in the Caribbean, but the drivers and riders are not about fun and games. Reality forces perspective and despite their innocuous exterior, the built for speed machines and the racers will invade the circuit with one game plan; to win as fast as possible.
The circuit will be transformed into a flammable speedway by the ‘local Group Four Big 3’ Mark Vieira, Andrew King and Kevin Jeffrey.
Vieira, King and Jeffrey will be vying for supremacy along Caribbean racing heavyweights Mark and Doug Maloney and Jamaica’s David Summerbell Jr. and Doug ‘Hollywood’ Gore who is leading the individual championships.
Gore who will be the man to beat, will be piloting a turbo charged Audi TT-RDTM.
‘Hollywood’ is on 75 points. He is followed by Barbados’ Doug Maloney (48) and Jamaica’s George Bayley (28) in second and third positions, respectively. Gore’s effort helped Jamaica assume the lead in that class on 170 points, with Barbados in second place on 56, and Guyana having 34 points.
With Guyana in the cellar for the team championships, the locals who are vastly experienced on the South Dakota Circuit will be aiming for individual glory.
King will be pushing in his Mazda RX-7 to the limit while Vieira will be racing his Mazda RX 8 20B.Jeffrey will drive his turbo-charged Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII.
Other notable drivers competing today are Peter ‘Zoom Zoom’ Rae, Noel Golding Jr., Gary Williams, Andy Bodden Mitsubishi Evo Turbo Charged (Cayman Islands), Steve King – Nissan Skyline (Barbados) Mark Maloney – Mazda RX-3 13B Turbo Charged (Barbados).
Racing fans will certainly have their money’s worth most of the competitors highlighted that their machines have been producing impressive lap timings.
The circuit is in perfect condition and fans should expect supersonic times.
Twenty-four races are carded for the day and the entrance fee to the circuit is $2,000 for adults and $1,000 for children.
.The Jamaicans are also the defending champions of the team championships, while individual glory went to Summerbell Jr. last year. In 2011, Barbados became the first nation to win both the individual and team titles in the same year since joining Guyana and Jamaica in the competition in 2008, and also the first to win the team title twice – after Jamaica’s triumph in 2008; Barbados claimed the title in 2009, then Guyana in 2010.
Action starts at 08:00hrs.
