– Team Wreckers retain 160cc class win

VISHOK PERSAUD overcame stiff competition from defending champion, Adrian Fernandes of Team Wreckers, to win the season opening Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) Dakota 100 endurance race.

Driving his Lotus Exige, the group three and four driver completed the 100lap mark in two hours forty minutes and 29 seconds with Fernandes and team falling two laps short of the mark.

It was an early battle between Persaud and the BM Soat Honda Integra of Rameez Mohamed but in a race for the swift, the latter fell out somewhere around the 61 lap mark with Persaud persevering the gruelling drive alone.

By virtue of being the first to complete the 100 laps, Persaud, who also entered the unlimited class, finished six laps ahead of the nearest competitor in his group, Kamal Seebarran and the Toyota Yaris GR with the team of Syad Hassan finishing third in that class after completing 92 laps.

Persaud also produced the fastest endurance lap around the new layout, setting the benchmark at 1:25.451.

In the 1601cc – 2000cc class, Romario Dindial with 88 laps won that class ahead of Richard Hamid 86 laps and Romario Singh (58 laps).

Fernandes picked up the 1501cc-1600cc class with a strong showing from GMR&SC Vice President Mohamed Shiraz Roshandin who encountered brakes problem through the last half hour. He completed 93 laps when the clock stopped. Shan Seejattan finished third in that class with 89 laps.

Altabh Khan took the 0-1500cc class with 86 laps ahead of Narendra Mangar (83 laps) and Alex Siebs (79 laps).