Rajkarran, Da Silva leave few stones unturned

Dec 22, 2009 Sports

Cement lead in Titan ‘Grass Track’ Series

By Edison Jefford
Sixteen year old ‘Grass Track’ racing sensation, Junior Da Silva had a perfect day while a couple of sporadic defeats spoilt Andy Rajkarran’s chances of ideally finishing with all of the top prizes in the professional races Sunday.
The two dirt bike riders cemented their respective leads in the two categories of the initial Titan Entertainment ‘Grass Track’ Championship Series with the last race meeting set for the Mecca of local racing, Ogle at a date to be released.
Rajkarran and Da Silva had dominated the first meet at Hampton Court, Essequibo and in a similar fashion, the duo returned to hijack the attention Sunday at the second meeting of the three-race series that climaxes sometime in 2010.
Rajkarran did not get a perfect start for his campaign at the Port Mourant Turf Club when he was forced to settle for second in the first professional race that Andrew Wong won on the new track. Dave Gangadin had finished third.
Gangadin and Stephen Vieira were two of the new entrants in the professional race where Vieira was forced to exit after completing three laps. The top local motorbike racer stated that he injured his knee during a warm-up session.
“I hit a tire and hit my knee. I couldn’t make it because it [the knee] was paining,” Vieira said, adding that his Yamaha 125 cc bike is not fully “geared in” as well.
“If it wasn’t for my knee I would have continued though,” he noted.
There was no tuning up for Da Silva, who went straight to his winning formula in his first novice race beating Latchman (first name not given) and Vikash Rampersaud into second and third places respectively with a clinical display.
The winning habit caught Rajkarran for his second race in which he obliterated Gangadin and Alvin Balgobin in that order. The third professional race finished in the same order as Vieira, taking his chances, dropped out on the eighth lap.
Da Silva ensured that he was not under threat when he left Rampersaud in second and Raj Rajkarran in third in his second novice event. Jerry Da Silva entered the fray in third in as many of the novices’ event to prevent a repetition.
Rajkarran got his third successive victory while Gangadin and Balgobin were again in the second and third positions.
However, Wong turned the table on Rajkarran in the final race in that category with Gangadin finishing third.
The podium order remained Da Silva, Rampersaud and Rajkarran in the fourth and fifth novice races of the competition while Rajkarran wrapped up the day with a victory in the general race for both novices and professional riders.

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