KFC Mega Cup Round 1
Nathan Rahaman (71) trails Jeremy Ten-Pow (61) during the pre-final of the KFC Mega Cup Round 1. (GTRidez Photo)
Nathan Rahaman (71) trails Jeremy Ten-Pow (61) during the pre-final of the KFC Mega Cup Round 1. (GTRidez Photo)

– Impressive Rahaman holds Ten-Pow at bay

NATHAN Rahaman produced the drive of the day in Sunday’s historic opening round of the KFC Mega Cup at the GT Motorsports Cosmos Raceway.

Nathan, the son of multiple time group two champion, Ryan, completed fifteen laps of pure class to the envy of many seasoned racers as he defended against one of the fiercest competitors in the karting arena in Pure Racing’s Jeremy Ten Pow.

Nathan made his move on the first corner of the opening lap, catching Jeremy off guard and immediately putting the defending GT motorsports 60cc Champion on the back foot.

From then on, Ten-Pow was forced to be the aggressor.

It seemed that Nathan had done his homework and managed to neutralise all the preferred passing zones of the champion Ten-Pow.

All the while Ten-Pow was trying to get by Rahaman, Paige Mendonca was hot on the tail of them both. She bode her time well throughout the two-thirds of the race but a momentary lapse in concentration saw her spin and allow Justin Ten Pow into third spot. She was never able to recover and finished fourth.

While Jeremy was able to pull alongside to put himself in a passing position on several occasions, Nathan placed his kart where it needed to be to quell the execution of a legal pass.

On several occasions, Ten-Pow was forced to put wheels on the curb to one-up Rahaman, but Nathan held true to his line and was unfazed by every attempt.

And when the chequered flag dropped, Nathan had completed the sweetest revenge on the man that had dominated both the earlier qualifying and pre-final, Justin Ten Pow, who finished third.

In the Easy cup battle, Jean Claude Jeffrey, the younger brother of Stefan Jeffrey, was able to clean sweep both the final, pre final and qualifying aspects of the day.

The races winners of the first round of the KFC Mega Cup (Leon Gonzalves/KFC Guyana)

The battle, however, was for second which changed places constantly. By mid-way through, however, things had settled down and debutant Brian Woolford had cemented that spot ahead of Zachary Persaud.

Woolford’s over-under move for second could be seen as one of the sweetest passes of the night on a track which is notoriously difficult to produce a pass.

GTVibz photographer Akeem Thomas, who was also on debut, finished seventh.

In the 125cc Junior class, Faraud Mohamed was the champion of the night, having earlier watched as Elan Rahaman and Rayden Persaud collide, taking both karts out.

He managed to avoid the chaos and took the lead, running untouched, with Mikhail Persaud finishing second and Gianni Carpenter finishing third.

In the earlier rounds, Mikhail finished ahead of Elan, Mohamed, Carpenter and Rayden, while in the pre-final, Rayden moved one spot up on Carpenter.

In the senior class, the battle was even hotter with one tenth separating Mikhail from John Phang and Steven Nobrega, in that order.

Phang got the better of Nobrega and Elan Rahaman in the pre-final after race leader, Mikhail persaud spun out; he finished fourth with Faraud fifth.

The race result was no different and while Nobrega had the lead for a bit, Phang was able to get by and take the win with Mikhail finishing third.

The second round of the KFC Mega Cup is billed for December 9.

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