GMRC Ignite Vieira, King in battle for Caribbean and local titles

Nov 03, 2018 Sports

Mark Vieira leads Andrew King down the straight away during the group four action at the March’s National Race of champions.

An all-out war is what is expected when the flag drops for group four action on November 10 and 11 at the South Dakota Circuit when the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) stages the Ignite race meet, which will be the final leg of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) and the two veterans are the front runners for the class.
At the Caribbean level, Vieira leads with 95 points after two rounds of action. Two firsts and a second place fi

Mark Vieira and his Rx8.

nish for Vieira in Trinidad coupled with one first, one second and one DNF result in Barbados has him ahead of the pack.
He has 95 points while King has 67 points (one third, one fourth and one DNF in Trinidad) and one first, a third and a DNF in Barbados.
CAMS driver Quinlan Lall is the only real threat that the duo faces as he has 62 points from one round. His car is expected for the meet as well.
However, Vieira will have to contend with Kristian Jeffrey, who does not have a chance at the championship, but can still make the battle closer than it needs to be.
With Mark Maloney out of Barbados and Trinidad’s Faizool Madan and his Audi who holds the lap record in Guyana, which will result in an epic battle that will come down to the wire.
On the local scene, only one round has been completed so far with Vieira leading again with 61 points to King’s 50. While this battle is closer, Vieira’s form on the local scene has been red hot and it will take a clean sweep from Andrew to change the tide’s current

Andrew King and his RX-7 at South Dakota.

direction.
The November race meet will feature groups 1-4 action as well as CHOKE Starlet Cup, Miracle Optical Street Tuner, Sports tuner and both CMRC and local superstocks race as well as a 125cc lightweight class and a street cross class.
Mark Vieira (Rx8) and Andrew King (Rx7) are set lock horns for the Caribbean Group 4 title.

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