ANOTHER YEAR and another perfect start to the motor racing season for Guyana’s Kristian Jeffrey, the 2014 Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) champion driver. 

The 2015 CMRC kicked off in Jamaica last weekend with Guyana, the defending over-all champions, sending Kristian along with his father Kevin Jeffrey, to compete with Danny Persaud in the Group 4 Category while Afraz Allie and Rameez Mohammed participated in the Group 3 class.
Chet Singh was the lone Group 2 racer and the Super Bike racers were Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira, his cousin Elliot Vieira, Paul Yearwood and Kevin Persaud.
Meanwhile, after becoming the only Guyanese to ever win the ‘Caribbean top driver’ capo last year the younger Jeffrey took JamWest Raceway by storm, making a clean sweep of the Group 4 category, winning all three races.
Behind the wheel of his Stag Beer-powered Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution 9, Kristian also clocked the fastest time ever at JamWest Raceway, doing so in the second Group 4 race of the day, with a time of 1:08.785 secs.
Muhammed placed second in two Group 3 races while Allie copped a third and a second place in the three races on Sunday.
According to a report from the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC), Kevin Jeffrey experienced mechanical problems during his first Group 4 race and was out for the rest of the competition, while Chet Singh’s car had problems since arriving on the Island and did not feature.
It was the battle of the Vieiras in CMRC Super Stock Bikes but at the end of the three races, it was Stephen ‘Valentino Rossi’ Vieira who had the upper hand on his younger cousin Elliot.
Elliot had beaten Stephen into second place in the CMRC Super Stock Bikes first race but, Stephen, regarded as the best in the Caribbean, returned with a vengeance and won the other two races and pushed his younger cousin into second place.
Stephen also clocked the fastest time of the day at the track, riding one minute 11.665 seconds (01:11.665).
At the end of round one, Guyana, the defending champions, sit second on 156 points behind Jamaica who totalled 323.
Trinidad and Tobago are third with 1 226 points, Caymans Island fourth (62 points). Barbados did not participate in the first round of the CMRC.
The GMR&SC thanked their sponsors Fly Jamaica Airlines, Seaboard Marines and the Ministry of Tourism for making team Guyana’s participation in the first leg of the CMRC possible. (Rawle Toney)