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Stuart Maloney’s Audi A4 Quattro
Stuart Maloney’s Audi A4 Quattro

TEAM Barbados have their sights set firmly on winning the coveted Country Championship title as they confirm an 11-member team for the final round of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC), to be staged at the South Dakota Circuit in Guyana on Sunday, November 16. 

Only 12 points cover the leading three territories, Trinidad & Tobago having leap-frogged into the lead with 308 points after returning as a host country in August for the first time since 2006; Guyana are second with 297, with Barbados third on 296. Jamaica trail on 151 points.
Stuart Maloney, CMRC Champion in 2008, is returning to the series for the first time in five years. He will drive the Group 4 Audi A4 Quattro in which his father Doug has three times finished third in the CMRC.
Looking forward to his trip, he said: “I have always been very passionate over track racing and really enjoyed racing in the CMRC. The hospitality from the Guyanese is fantastic, too. It is important that we, as drivers, reciprocate to keep the momentum going.”
Maloney won five of the six races he contested in 2008 in his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI, beating Jamaica’s David Summerbell Jr (Evo VIII) to the title, by five points, with Doug Gore a further five points behind in third place. Maloney’s rivalry with Summerbell will be renewed on November 16, as it was confirmed a few days ago that he will return to Guyana, after missing last year’s event.
The Group 4 team is completed by Mark Maloney (Mazda RX-3) and Steve King (Nissan Skyline GT-R). It was noted that the Mayers brothers will not be coming to Guyana, with Roger suffering significant accident damage from CMRC round 1, and Barry (Ford Focus) with persistent engine problems; Stuart Williams was set to travel until his Lotus Elise developed a gearbox problem at the Beacon Insurance BMF Club Meet at Bushy Park a week ago.
Since last year, the CMRC Country Championship has been calculated by combining points scored in Group 4 and Group 2, in which Barbados will enter a strong team, led by current points leader and 2012 Champion Mark Thompson (Honda Civic).
The Group 2 list also includes the reigning Champion, Thompson’s brother Kurt (Honda CRX), and 2011 Champion Kenrick Husbands (Toyota Starlet), both of whom have race-winning pedigrees at South Dakota.
Also in action will be Quincy Jones (Starlet), Steve King (Starlet) and Thompson’s brother Neil (Honda Civic).
Teenager Tremaine Forde-Catwell will make his debut for Team Barbados in his Daihatsu Charmant, which is currently undergoing a major refreshing with a new yellow paint job and the further tweaking of his Leeson Moe-prepared engine.
Finally, although there has been no official CMRC Superbike Championship this year, Devan McCartney (Suzuki GSX-R600) and Terrance Ollivierre (Suzuki GSX-R600) will be making the journey south.

 

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