SPEAK of motor racing in Guyana and the name Andrew King is certain to pop up and all the classic races he has won, but, recently, things have not been the same and with the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship set for November 16 at the South Dakota Circuit, the Guyanese is hoping for a turnaround. 

“Frankly I haven’t been very competitive over the last year/year and a half maybe since I’ve been having some reliability issues with the car but I still feel once I’m on the track and there’s no failure, I will be competitive,” King told Chronicle Sport in an exclusive interview yesterday.
When King, sitting behind the wheel of his rotary Mazda RX7, was asked about his preparation for the event, the dapper race car driver said, “I’m having a slight delay on an engine that has been rebuilt but we should be at the circuit by Tuesday to start testing … It’s the same car but we have modified the engine; l am actually combining developments by two builders in the rotary world and hopefully we would see some significant increase in horse power and torque.”
Group 4 in which King races is the marquee event on race day and the veteran driver believes that at present, the rules favour the drivers whose cars are turbo-charged and though it’s a bother to him since his car is ‘rotary’, he made it clear that “this is something I think I will just fall in line next year and put a turbo- charged engine in my car, rather than have a revamp of rules because that tends to be painstaking and that tends to be ‘counterproductive’ to the sport.”

(By Rawle Toney)