Guyanese fans heading to the South Dakota Circuit today can be assured of nothing short of excitement and thrilling racing as the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) plays host to the third and final round of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC).

Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados have all sent their best speedsters and their machines to Guyana to set up a classic showdown and one that will certainly go down in history.

A record 150 competitors will feature today and based on the scores of people who turned up yesterday at the track just to witness the time trials, one can only imagine the crowd expected at the famed circuit.

Mishaps and surprises were the order of the day at the time trials.

Danny Persaud and his Mazda Miata will start on pole today in Group 3 after the Banks Beer and Buy Me Auto Sales sponsored driver clocked the fastest time (35.717 seconds).

The Guyanese will start ahead of Barbados’ Kurt Thompson (36.919 seconds), Vishal Sawh (37.629 seconds) and Rameez Mohamed (38.024).

Mark Thompson will start on pole in Group 2, running a time of 38.792 seconds while behind him will be his ‘Bajan’ teammate Kenrick Husbands (39.012), followed by Guyana’s Mohamed Roshandin (39.216) and Shan Seejattan (39.304 seconds).

Nikhil Seereeram had a sensational day yesterday and will start on pole today in the CMRC Super Sport Bike while Matthew Vieira who keeps showing that ‘age is just a number’ will be right behind on grid.

The local ‘Valentino Rossi’ Stephen Vieira will have a lot of catching up to do if he is to live up to his name today.

Meanwhile, the star studded line-up in the ‘Group 4’ cars didn’t get to complete their run since an oil spill put a damper on their run.

Oil leaked from one of the cars during a time trial and had caused Vishok Persaud to use his skills to avoid a major accident after sliding on the track.

According to the GMR&SC, after the lap of honour today which is slated for 08:00 hrs the Group 4 cars will have their qualifiers.

In the drivers’ Championship, Guyana’s Kristian Jeffrey leads the field with 85 points, followed by fellow countryman Danny Persaud (74) and Paul Vieira (43) to round off the top three.

Trinidad and Tobago leads the chase for the ‘Country’ championship with 308 points with Guyana (297), Barbados (296) and Jamaica (151) trailing.