GMR&SC National Race of Champions Round one…

– Seejattan heading Prem’s Electrical Group Two
ON an overcast day at the South Dakota Circuit Timehri, Rameez Mohamed was untouchable in the BM Soat/Renegade Fuels sponsored Starlet Cup, qualifying on pole.

The former GMR&SC President returned a time of 1:25.841 to blitz the competition in the 20-minute qualifying session yesterday, setting down the early bench mark.

Former lap record-holder, Anand Ramchand, was second on the grid, posting a best time of 1:29.218 and Steven Nobrega 1:29.536.

The other qualifying times were Shairaz Roshandin (1:30.211), Nyron Maraj, (1:31.179) and Syad Hassan (1:32.300).

Elsewhere, Shan Seejattan took Prem’s Electrical/Renegade Racefuel-sponsored group two class that had to be red flagged due to rain.

Seejattan’s 1:26.181 second time beat out Rameez Mohamed’s 1:29.597 second time with Chet Singh starting third on the grid (1:29.721).

Mark Williams will start fourth after posting 1:31.257 ahead of Peter Morgan (1:36.413) and Andre Dhanraj.

In the Sport Tuner Class, Azad Hassan made the best start to 2023 with a blistering 1:32.953 second time ahead of Adrian Fernandes (1:34.035) and Ryan Rahaman (1:35.308).

Mohamed Ahmad (1:36.025) will start fourth with Carl Singh (1:49.498) fifth.

For the rookies, Tarick Baijnauth will start ahead of Shawn Sattar as the only two who qualified on the day with Vickey Persaud (1:37.861) taking the street tuner pole ahead of Naresh Alves (1:41.030) and Richard Singh (1:42.612)

Groups Three and Four had a rained out session and will qualify today at 10:00hrs

For the superstock bikes, which pulled their grid positions via the ‘hand in bag’ method with Kevin Persaud starting ahead of Stephen Vieira, Heemand Boodhram and Matthew Vieira.

The Street Bikes did the same and will see Shem Chattersingh ahead of Elwin Chase, Fitzpatrick Augustus, Raphael Fraser, Jermain Chattersingh, Heeranand Boodhram, Jerome Gomes and Dowayne Caesar.