GUYANESE driver and Caribbean Motor Racing Championship, Group 4 defending champion Kristian Jeffrey now holds the lap record at the Wallerfield raceway in Trinidad and Tobago, following round two of the championships on Sunday.Jeffrey erased the previous record of 41.693 seconds and reposted a 40.528 seconds time in a blistering battle to the Group 4 Champion trophy, which he initially shared with Trinidad’s Kristian Boodoosingh and Gerard Carrington.
After, dedicating his win and the record to his father, Jeffrey said, “The whole performance definitely goes to the team, but as it’s Father’s Day (Sunday), to a man that got me through motor racing and got me through motor racing like he was my idol growing up, obviously.
“Without him, I wouldn’t be anywhere so this goes to my father for sure.” Jeffrey picked up a 1st place in the first race, ahead of Boodoosingh and Carrington before the position was reversed with Boodosingh first, Carrington second and Jeffrey third.
Race three ended with Carrington first, Jeffrey second and Boodoosingh third. Each driver picked up 58 points and could not be separated by the number of first-, second- or third-place finishes. Jeffrey still leads the CMRC individual standings.
On the Group 3 end of things, Danny Persaud fought tooth and nail to secure the Champion driver in that category with 61 points ahead of Trinidad and Tobago’s representative Paul Vieira. Persaud opened the day with the first Group 3 win and picked up 2 second places in the remaining races to amass more points than Vieira (50).
Speaking after the presentation, Persaud said that his win also goes to his team. “The guys worked very hard over the weekend; this championship goes to the guys.
“They didn’t have the luck that we wanted in Jamaica but this goes to show that the car and the team are very, very competitive and barring the bad luck, we feel that in the remaining two rounds, we can make up the points needed to take the Group 3 championship.”
Persaud sits third in the Group 3 championship, behind Gary Barrett of the Cayman Islands and Natasha Chang of Jamaica, respectively.
Shairaz Roshandin was dominant in the Group 2 end of things where he picked up the Champion driver trophy, after securing a first- and two second-place finishes.
In race 1, Roshandin came second to Barbados’ Mark Thompson, after which he registered second again to Marc Gill. He however refused to settle for another second and dominated the competition in the final race. Speaking after collecting his trophy, the Group 2 driver indicated that consistency is key to winning the championship. “Reliability and consistency are keys to winning the Caribbean Championships and I think I can do that this year at the Group 3 level.”
The Guyana team returned home last evening.

(By Stephan Sookram in Trinidad, compliments of Bounty Farm Limited, GMR&SC, Wayne Vieira, Buy Me Auto Sales, Vishal Auto Toy store, B.M Soat, Rent-a-tent)