By Stephan Sookram

FOLLOWING a mixed weekend in Jamaica last weekend, current Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) defending super-stock champion is still upbeat of his chances of winning back-to-back.Speaking to Chronicle Sport, he contended that the spark in last weekend’s Championship was resetting his lap record, a 1:11.6 with a new record – a 1:11.100 – shaving half a second off his time.
“Yeah, it was a great feeling; I actually didn’t know that I had broken it. I was just so focused on catching Stephen (Vieira) in that race,” he said.
Rating the weekend however, he continued, “It started well, we got a second in the first race and then I got into an accident in the second race so it kind of affected my CMRC points because I’m also defending champion. In the third race we came back hard and strong and we came first.”
Speaking directly about his incident Vieira said, “In the moments before it, I was smiling of course, I was happy because I was leading the race but then I fell and everything was just shattered. All that was going through my mind (after the fall) was to try and make up those points that I lost, in the next race.”
“No injuries. But the bike had some cosmetic damage; nothing that can’t be fixed,” he continued, adding, “We came out very strong; the bike worked beautifully, no complaints at all. The bike did what we wanted it to do and it even exceeded our expectations.”
Elliot leaves Jamaica in third position with 43 points, being led only by his elder cousin Stephen (68 points) and Jamaica’s Robert McDonald (45 points)
The next stop in the CMRC train is Wallerfield Raceway in Trinidad and Tobago in July.