Team Guyana dominate Group 4 Superbikes at CMRC
Team Guyana pose with their spoils. (Photo by S.E.A.G. Productions)
Team Guyana pose with their spoils. (Photo by S.E.A.G. Productions)

GUYANA’S team to the third leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) put in a dominant performance in the Group four and Superstock section of the recently concluded Barbados Voyage.

SUPERBIKE GLORY
Guyana’s superbikers were clearly the dominant factor in Sunday’s events as they seemed to cope better with the wet slippery Bushy Park surface.
Stephen Vieira led from flag to flag on all three occasions but was penalised 5 seconds in the final race for jumping the lights.
Nonetheless, the Guyanese still stormed the podium, Stephen beating his two cousins Elliot (second) and Matthew (third) in Race one.
Race two saw only a difference in the lower podium spot with Stephen again taking first, Joel Neblett second and Elliot third while the Elliot was promoted to first in the last race ahead of Neblett and the demoted Stephen.
Elliot now holds the bike lap record at the Bushy Park Raceway, a 1:04.269 after shattering Stephen’s last year’s record.

MIXED FORTUNES FOR CARS.
Meanwhile In the Group 4 division, Team Guyana, spearheaded by current points leader Kristian Jeffrey, braved the wet conditions to outshine the competition.
In Race 1, he got an early jump on the Ford Focus of Barbadian Roger Mayers, but two corners later had to relinquish that as the sheer speed of the Focus took over; extending the gap after every lap.
However, a blown front deferential left Barbados top contender limping and to the mercy of Jeffrey who quickly capitalised by rounding the outside and blowing down the straight; an easy win in Race 1.
In Race two, Jeffrey led from flag to flag, surviving some early pressure from Trinidadian Kristian Boodoosingh and battling the rains.
Race three saw Jeffrey pull out a gap after just one lap but fell to mechanical troubles (broken back deferential), making it the first time he has not completed a CMRC race.
He was, however, given the Champion Driver trophy for Group 4 after racking up those two wins.
His father Kevin had problems gripping the track all day while Mark Vieira had sensor issues which kept him out of CMRC action.
In Group 3, Danny Persaud, Guyana’s lone contender suffered mechanical issues and opted for an engine swap on Saturday night but still could not sort the problems with his Miata out, running only one race.
Group 2 saw Nazim Gafoor and his machine feature several times but mechanical troubles often got the better of them.

 

 

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