WITH exactly one week before the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s (GMR&SC) International Race of Champions, the war of words has begun, the first of which was thrown by England- based rider Matt Truelove.Truelove, who will be riding for the Mohamed’s Enterprise team alongside American Bryce Prince, arrived in the country Friday evening, with the United Kingdom semi- pro speaking to the media on Saturday.

“I’m not coming here to finish second, I’m coming here to win so that’s what I am going to do,” Truelove told reporters when quizzed about his intentions next Sunday.
Racing aboard a Yamaha R6, the same type he rides competitively with in the UK, Truelove believes that it will not be ‘smooth sailing’ come race day but he is prepared for any eventuality.
Asked about the track, he responded,” it looks like quite a lot of breaking and accelerating and trying to get the bike in the right place on the exit. So we’ll probably try today to get my head around the track a bit and see what times I can do and build from there.”
“It’s quite wide so it’s not what I was expecting but it should be good. (In terms of difference) In the UK, the tracks are looked after better, with a few more corners and quite bigger, normally a lot longer but the corners are the same, quite flowing and leading into each other.”
His only worry thus far is in relation to the local climate, noting that humidity may affect his stay here but he has plans to combat that.
Nonetheless, Truelove will be in action later today in the first of his unofficial sessions at the South Dakota Circuit while Prince was expected in the country earlier this morning.
Not new to racing, the Mohamed’s Enterprise team made its entrance into the sport via the quarter mile as it’s Nissan GTR currently holds the blacktop South Dakota record of 8.3 seconds.
This year,however,in an effort to add more interest to the sport and to advance its standard locally, the company decided to sponsor two internationally famed riders.