Vieira singles out Miller as main contender

WITH the third leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships right around the corner, Stephen Vieira has singled out Barbadian Brook Miller as the ‘man to beat’ come race day.
Speaking exclusively to Chronicle Sport, Vieira contended “I actually see him (Brook) as the number one competitor for Barbados and going to one of the best tracks in the Caribbean or possibly the best track in the Caribbean, I am going to try my best to push and do better.”
Vieira picked up three second-place finishes at the second leg in Trinidad and currently leads the CMRC Superstock bike class with 122 points while his cousin Matthew, who will also compete in Barbados, is in second.
However, he explained that mechanical troubles from his Kawasaki ZX6-R had relegated him to only second-place finishes on race day.
“It was actually very funny because I didn’t have the straight line power that I needed and everyone else had and I had to work much harder in the corners; but it was actually experience that gave me that balancing effect, the experience that I have over them, ” he said.
He continued, “ Experience is a lot, if the game plan at any time has to change, experience is a major man to fall back on.”
Moving into the third leg, he also confirmed that, “My mindset is actually very, very good because we had a little problem in Trinidad and we thought it was in the fuel system and its management but it was not that, it was the engine – one cylinder was dead. I just put in a new engine and my feeling and motivation now actually strong.”
“The engine that I have in that bike is all the confidence that I need. We actually tested the engine and we (my team and I) know to ourselves that it is a good engine.”
His bike is sponsored by Sunburst Orange Juice, Palm Court, Top End Fitness, Pure Racing and The Track.