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Round Three of GMR&SC Series set for July 27
Group Four is main focus
The South Dakota Circuit is expected to come alive on July 27 when Round Three action of the 2008 Motor Racing season resumes with the Skyline Mortgage, GT&T Cellink Plus, Carib Beer and Sunburst Orange Juice Race of Champions Meeting.
Twenty-five exciting events including the Handicap race across eight groups is planned and all eyes will be on the prestigious Group 4 Division newest lap record holder Andrew King (who by the way picked up an additional fifty horsepower after dyno-testing his Mazda recently in Jamaica) as he prepares to defend his lead in the 2008 motor racing championship of Guyana against the hard charging Mark Vieira.
Vieira, who recently bought a spanking new dry sump Guru engine for his Mazda RX 7 will be hoping that the new hardware gives him the edge he needs to return to winning ways.
At the May Meeting, Kevin Jeffrey stunned his fellow GP4 compatriots when he pulled off an unexpected victory in his AWD turbo-charged 550 BHP Mitsubishi Evolution 8. With much development work done to this amazing car over the last few months, Jeffrey is now considered to be one of the biggest threats to the reign of Andrew King.
Adding much excitement to the battle will be Andrew Morgan, who is now piloting a Tube-framed Rotary powered Mazda RX7.
Having had just a few laps of seat time in the completely new chassis, Morgan has already recorded lap times of 36 seconds. This impressive showing is just slightly off the current lap record which stands at 35.07 seconds.
Canada’s Shawn King will be in the midst of the Group 4 action with his tube frame Mazda recently fitted with a new Dave Diedrick built 13B rotary engine that promises to increase his power output by at least 35 percent.
With a new Cosworth High Tech engine fitted to his Subaru Impreza, Vishok Persaud is hoping to overcome the mechanical gremlins that have kept him on the sideline for the last three race meetings.
Persaud’s Sunburst sponsored Impreza has already indicated that it is one of the fastest cars on the South Dakota Circuit, but getting it to perform reliably is now the biggest hurdle he has to overcome.
To add even more excitement to the fray, Ravi Singh of Trinidad and Tobago will make a guest appearance with his Turbo-charged Third Generation Mazda RX7. Speed ace Ryan Rahaman is expected to debut his spanking new turbocharged Ford Sierra which he will use to compete in both Group Three and Four.
Ryan presently leads the 2008 points standings for Group Three.
Ryan’s decision to test his skills against the top Group Four drivers of Guyana could see him becoming a member of Team Guyana in the remaining rounds of the 2008 Caribbean championship.
Guyana’s top Group Four drivers are using this Meeting as a warm up for the upcoming second round of the 2008 Caribbean Championship scheduled for August 31 in Barbados, at the Bushy Park Raceway.
Jamaican David Summerbell leads the points standing after round one with 21 points and he is closely pursued by Guyana’s Andrew King on 19 points.
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