This year, not for the first time, Guyana has won the Caribbean Championship, but for the first time Guyana won both the driver and country Championship.

The Guyanese had amassed 541 points from the three rounds of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) which saw its first round being held in Barbados, then the regions top cars and drivers headed to Trinidad and Tobago, before returning to the South Dakota Circuit for the final showdown.

Barbados finished second with 482 points, followed by Trinidad (400 points) and Jamaica sits in the cellar with 151 points.

Kristian Jeffrey won the ‘Caribbean Championship’, becoming the youngest to ever hold such distinction and the first Guyanese to lift the crown.

Kristian’s father Kevin (Jeffrey) was adjudged the 2014 Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Champion Group 4 driver while Danny Persaud who enjoyed unarguably his outing in the sport won the accolade amounts Group 3 competitors.

Matthew Vieira, son of racing stalwart Mark Vieira, enjoyed a sensational year on the seat of his Yamaha YZF 600 and for his domination he was named 2014 Super Stock Champion.

Meanwhile, President of the GMR&SC Johnny Carpenter said that the club enjoyed its most profitable ‘November meet’, with this year surpassing that of the previous years with regards to the returns from the gates.

“Despite the breaches at the gates and bogus tickets that were sold, the Club enjoyed its most profitable race meet last Sunday. This goes to show the growth of the sport , and that we at the GMR&SC would like to thank all those who came out and helped made the day what it was, without you, the fans, we would not have a successful day” Carpenter said.

The GMR&SC President said that with Guyana now being affiliated to the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) it opens the doors for the club to raise the standard of the sport and help motor racing to become Guyana’s biggest sport.

Southland International, distributors of Carlsberg have confirmed their sponsorship for the next three years and so too did Seaboard Marines, the company responsible for getting the cars around the Caribbean.

Ray Rahaman, one of the founding members of the Caribbean Motor Racing Association (CMRA), said that next year, four countries will host the CRMC starting in Jamaica in February 2015, then moving to Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and the championship will culminate in Guyana at the South Dakota Circuit.

(By Rawle Toney)