Matthew Vieira rates Bushy Park performance as amazing
Caribbean Motor Racing Championships 2016…
By Akeem Greene
One of Guyana’s top motor bikers Matthew Vieira rated his performance last weekend at the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) at the Bushy Park Circuit, Barbados, as one which was simply amazing.
Matthew Vieira
Heading into the third leg, Mathew was 17 points behind his cousin Stephen but raced to a first and two second place finishes.
In an exclusive interview with Guyana Times Sport on Tuesday, the young Vieira disclosed he was surprised with his performance since he was simply trying to reduce the lead of his cousin.
“I was trying to cut the gap in points and basically I thought we could have fought it out here [Guyana] but I did not expect to be leading by so much points; unofficially I currently lead by 42 points,” he explained.
That “lead” did not come easy, since during the qualifying rounds, the rainy weather hampered his performance.
He explained, ” I did not walk with rain tyres, because we generally don’t use those tyres but I was on slicks in the wet which made the other riders way faster; I was in third from the first qualifier but I was pushed down to fifth after all the rounds.”
Vieira, who uses a Yamaha R6 to do battle, explained that the two previous rounds which were held in Jamaica at the Jamwest Speedway then Trinidad at Wallerfield International Raceway were both testing and fruitful.
“Jamwest was difficult because I was arriving as a new rider, I did know the track but my competition Elliot and Stephen raced their before and they had the edge over me but what happened is that I pushed a bit too hard in the last race and fell so that is how Stephen got his gap over me,” the racer disclosed.
He furthered stated, “however, in Wallerfield that went very well for me, I won all three races and I got the lap record and that and put me back in the standings; my cousin Elliot had mechanical problems so we could not compete.”
In closing, the motor biker was extremely thankful for the support of his sponsors Rio Inn, Cyril’s Taxi, H.A.B International, E-Networks, Truck Masters, Game Express and Fast Graphics.
Though his cousin Elliot is the defending champion, mathematically speaking, he has fallen out of championship contention but the battle that is expected will between Matthew and Stephen come November 13 at the South Dakota Circuit. ([email protected])
