Mahendra Boodhoo is the new President of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC), following that body’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Monday evening (May 24th 2022) at the GT Motorsport Hall.
The new executive body of the GMR&SC
Boodhoo and his slate were elected unopposed, as former President Rameez Mohamed declined to run for the position for this term. Instead, Mohamed is slated as Club Captain. Boodhoo, a former President of the club, begins his newest stint with the aim of reinvigorating the local motorsport fraternity after the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Firstly, I want to thank you all for this opportunity. This new executive hopes to ensure that we focus on growing local motorsport in all aspects, be it bikes, cars, karting etc.,” he said in his first address. “We are looking forward to your support and your voices. If you have ideas, then we are here to listen to them, and once they come with possible solutions, then we will obviously look at them. Once they are structured and put on the record, then we will deal with them,” he promised.
Mohamed Shiraz Roshandin is the new Vice-President of the club, while Azim Jaffar returns as Secretary and Chetram Singh takes over as Treasurer. The Assistant Secretary/Treasurer remains Azaad Hassan, with the Technical Advisor being Joel Evans. The new committee members are Mark Vieira, Gavin Guyadin, Roshan Ali and John Chin.
The club also adopted the financials of the previous year, and retained Seebarran as the auditor.
Hitting the ground running
Meanwhile, the new committee plans to hit the ground running, addressing several concerns from members present about the current state of sections of the track.
“During this week, the new executive will take a trip to the track to firstly examine what we are working with, and then move forward. I know a lot of you raised complaints (about) some sections of the track, and we will see how best we can sort that,” the GMR&SC President has said.
The question was also asked whether the dates for events published earlier this year would remain the same. The new GMR&SC boss opined that, while there might be changes, those would be communicated during the remainder of this week, to ensure that there are no disenfranchised competitors.
