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Kristian Jeffrey will start on pole for today’s Caribbean Motor Racing Championship’s Trinidad Leg at the Wallerfeild raceway.
Jeffery secured the pole in a record breaking fashion clocking 40.256 seconds in his session yesterday. Normally, that would have erased the circuit record of the Trinidadian track 41.693 seconds set last year by Franz Verschuur, but Caribbean Motor Racing Association chairman Ray Rahaman told Chronicle Sport that under the new rules, records can only be broken and reset on race day.
Nonetheless, Jeffrey is confident of doing the same tomorrow and even bettering it if need be. “During qualifying we actually had a few glitches, we had a brake pulsation and a little miss which we think we can fine tune for tomorrow.
Again it’s just about bringing the car home, it’s about racking up as much points as possible and if we get two in the bag then we are definitely going for the record.” The defending CMRC champion starts ahead of his namesake and Trinidad’s Kristian Boodoosingh, Jamaica’s Peter Rae and Trinidad’s Gerard Carrington.
At the Group three level, Guyana came out firing, picking up the top three spots. Danny Persaud secured pole after a time of 44.114 seconds ahead of Afraz Allie’s 44.196 seconds and debutant Motilall Deodass’ 46.364 seconds. Persaud, speaking after the qualification indicated t to Chronicle sport that the hard work had paid off.
“We had made some changes after the first leg of the CMRC in Jamaica because we had difficulties there and we are seeing the fruits of the work. The car is performing nicely and we are going to go out there with the mentality to pick up some wins and points for Guyana.”
On the Group 2 front, Mohamed Roshandin (47.048 seconds) qualified second to Barbadian Mark Thompson (45.124 seconds) but has plans to improve. Roshandin said that it is a big gap but he has made some adjustments to the car to try and improve the corner speed.
“Two seconds is a bit difficult to close. His (Mark Thompson) car is doing 115 miles per hour against mine that’s doing 110, so we hoping that we can capitalise on corner speed.” Ryan Rahaman will start 5th on the grid and will try to work his way back up the pack.
Today’s event begins at 09:00hrs with the final drivers’ briefing followed by the opening remarks of the various delegations.