JAMAICAN racing ace David Summerbell easily recaptured the Caribbean Champion Driver title, but the final leg of the Caribbean Race of Champions was not without controversy and spills at the South Dakota Circuit, yesterday.
Though not officially winning any of the three regional races, Summerbell amassed 61 points, and his closest challenger countryman Peter Rae was 15 points behind on 46, followed by immediate past champion Barbadian

Roger Mayers on 30 and Guyana’s Mark Vieira fourth on 28.
Jamaica, also, raced away with the Country Title, totalling some 137 points with closest rivals Guyana way behind by 49 points, ending with 88, followed by immediate past champion Barbados on 74 and the Cayman Islands on 37.
On the super two wheels, Stephen Vieira emerged winner with a massive 54 points to lead a Guyana dominance of the top five slots, followed by Joel Neblette on 36, Maurice Menezes 28, Carlos Rodrigues 26 and Ricardo Fagundes 23.
The international car races produced the controversy and super bikes the spills, resulting in visiting rider Leroy Cort requiring medical attention.
But the champion of the third and final leg of this year’s Caribbean series was Guyana’s audacious ace Mark Vieira who convincingly won the first and third races, and rolled in second in the second, powering up a Mazda RX 8.
Starting the day in fourth position on the grid, Vieira surged forward to second behind pole holder Jamaican Peter Rae in a Mazda RX7. By the second lap, Vieira was challenging him for the lead, then in the third lap, he manoeuvred to the inside on the club house turn to take the lead.
In the fourth lap, the order was Vieira, followed by Rae, and Guyana’s Kevin Jeffrey in Mitsubishi Evolution 8 and Andrew King in a Mazda RX7.
By the fifth lap, Jeffrey moved up to second, just before the goose neck, and in the eighth Vieira lapped one, and King surged to third in the ninth on the straight as Guyana ended one, two three – Vieira, Jeffrey and King, with Summerbell fourth.
The second race was controversial. Jeffrey surged forward to lead the race, going into the club house turn, with Vieira in second and Summerbell third. The Jamaican moved to second in the following lap, with Vieira in third and King fourth. In the fifth lap, Jeffery extended the lead, but was smoking in the sixth.
He held on to the lead, but on the homestretch, Summerbell powered to the finish line, pipping the Guyanese. However, he did not negotiate the turn on completing the race, and Jeffrey was given the chequered flag, with Vieira second and King third. Team Jamaica protested, maintaining the race was completed at the finish line.
Summerbell told Chronicle Sport that he read the rules and it stated that the racers must complete the turn at the club house as normal, and would be disqualified if they drove straight down, without taking the turn.
“I interpret it as a safety precaution to prevent competitors finishing the race as a drag,” Summerbell said. “I made the turn but ended in the sand,” he added.
But Vieira ensured the third race produced a clear winner. He took the lead on the first club house turn, but Jeffrey took it back at the said turn in the following lap, but was out of the race without entering the goose neck. Vieira was back up front in the third, followed by Rae, King and Summerbell.
The order remained so until the eighth lap, when King lost power, and Summerbell moved into the third slot, with the race ending in that order.
On the big bikes, Stephen Vieira won both on a Suzuki GSXR, with both seconds going to Canadian Kevin Graham on a Yamaha R6, and both thirds to Kwame Ridley on Kawasaki 600cc.
It was in the second outing, that Cort fell negotiating the club house turn, and was ridden over by the biker behind him.
An Ambulance rushed to the scene, raced away down the track with the injured rider, then turned back and he was treated in the medical room under the club house.
One of the attending doctors said Cort was sent for further checks on his head, but was otherwise in good condition.
Results of the other races will be in a subsequent story.