TT’s Bissessar says enjoying rivalry with Team Mohamed’s of Guyana

In spite of having his track record broken hours after being set, one of Trinidad and Tobago’s top international drag race drivers, Sheldon Bissessar, has said he thoroughly enjoyed the rivalry between himself and Team Mohamed’s during the recently concluded International Drag Race meet.

Bissessar has said he did not have his mind on the South Dakota’s ¼ mile track record on Saturday when he shattered it during qualifying for the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club’s (GMR&SC’s) International Drag Race meet.
Bissessar steered his Spritzer Dragster rail car to a 7.208s record, lowering the previous record of 7.501s held by Team Mohamed’s GTR.
However, less than 24 hours later, the record was rewritten by Team Mohamed’s Pro-Mod Mustang.

Still eager to lower the new 7.036s record, the highly competitive Sheldon Bissessar has said he would jump at the opportunity to challenge the record again.
“Yeah man, we’ll take that in a minute! We’re hoping that we get the chance again, that we can turn up the power in the car and get it down the track,” Bissessar told this publication at the South Dakota track on Sunday last.
Bissessar explained that the focus is not on smashing records, but on entertaining and raising the bar competitively.
He said, “We weren’t really after a track record, you know; we were just testing the car. It just happened that we did a good time, but it’s nowhere close to where we want to run, just the first time we’re trying the car.
“You want to run as fast as you could run, but it’s not just about the record, we want to race and win, you know. Running and doing a record by yourself isn’t that much fun to us. We want to challenge! We want to go racing! It’s racing we want to do!” he explained.
“It’s not just after records, if the records come, they come, but that’s not really the fun in it,” this hard-nosed Trinidadian competitor has reasoned.
Sensing that the rivalry between the Trinidadian and Guyanese teams is about to be stepped up, this publication quizzed Bissessar on such a likelihood, and he responded that it would be great for the sport.
“I think we will improve! We will improve, and the challenge will always be there, the rivalry will always be there. And it’s good for the sport, it’s good for us to keep the sport going, keep pulling it forward. You win some, you lose some,” he posited. “So, we’re hoping that we could put down a time and get back the track record today (Sunday).”
Although it was not Bissessar, another Trinidadian driver, Kervin Ribeiro, attempted to break the record later on Sunday, but encountered a mishap with his 1JZ RX7.