Veteran racer and multiple Group Four champion Mark Maloney will spearhead the Barbadian team for the upcoming Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) “Ignite” meet, which is geared for November 10- 11.
Mark Maloney tries to get ahead on the inside
Maloney, who sits at the helm of a Mazda RX3, is expected to come all out to try and retain his Group Four title.
Having secured one win in Barbados, Maloney is eager to take the battle to the Guyanese duo of Mark Vieira and Andrew King, both of whom secured wins in round three earlier this year.
Mark Thompson is no stranger to the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) top step, having held the championship for two years at the Group Two level in his Honda Civic.
However, after stiff competition in Barbados and Trinidad, he sits way back in third behind Trinidad’s Justin Sanguinette and Marc Gill.
His brother Kurt is a competitor in the Group Three class with several visits here, but this time around, he returns to action in Group Two.
The highly-anticipated event is expected to see the culmination of the 2018 season of CMRC for Groups One to Five as well as the Superstocks and SR3 radicals, along with the local classes including the Superstock motorcycles.
The overseas competition will see drivers from Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Canada as well as competitors out of Europe.
Tickets for the packed 27-race two-day meet are on sale at a cost of $2500 for adults and $1000 for children at the GMR&SC’s Thomas Lands office. On Saturday, there will be the time trials beginning at 10:00h in all the classes followed by official races in the Street Cross Motorcyle, 125cc Motorcycle, Street Tuner, Choke Starlet Cup and Sports Tuner, which will be 10 laps each from 13:20h.
The feature race on Saturday will see 20 gruelling laps in the first anticipated clash in the SR3 Radicals Cup.
Meanwhile on Sunday, racing fans’ hunger for scorching action will be well satisfied with a packed 19-race programme set.
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