Team Trinidad makes it three in three at CMRC - King and Truelove crowned champions!

Team Trinidad makes it three in three at CMRC – King and Truelove crowned champions!

Nov 14, 2018 Sports

The victorious T&T team poses for a photo after receiving their CMRC overall championship trophy, Monday night at Princess Hotel.

The 2018 Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) came to a close officially Monday evening when the awards ceremony concluded at Guyana’s Ramada Princess Hotel at Providence, East Bank Demerara.
There it was confirmed that Guyana’s Andrew King had become the second son of the soil to retain a CMRC title after winning the Group 4 Awd class last year. At the gala dinner, the announcements flowed one after the other to cheers from those present from the visiting delegations.
King picked up two outright wins Sunday by destroying the competition and was also awarded the final win after a 10-second penalty was given against race winner Mark Maloney for a jump start.
Maloney’s false start meant that he finished the final race in last allowing Team Auto Fashion’s Rupie Shewjattan to claim a second, runner-up finish last Sunday.
Overall, Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) (1359) retained the country title for cars for a third consecutive year, winning ahead of Barbados (723), Guyana (579), Jamaica (548), Antigua (205), Caribbean American Motorsports (CAMS) (116) and Cayman Islands (32).
Meanwhile, Team Mohamed’s Enterprise Matthew Truelove copped the Superstock bikes championship for the first time giving his team a second triumph in the racing class after an amazing season on the track.
Overall, Team Jamaica won the championship for motorcycles, while Guyana finished second.
At the Group three level, Ronald Wortman might not have been the star of the show, thanks to his T&T countryman Kristian Boodoosingh, but he did pick up the group three championship.
Boodoosingh, who picked up two wins, was virtually untouchable with main contender Danny Persaud (GUY) and him touching in turn one of the first race. The latter spun and recovered for third.
Wortman was able to register two seconds and one first place finish after Boodoosingh had mechanical failure in the final race.
Group two had its fair share of drama with the seven points needed for Trinidad’s Marc Gill to take the championship and that proving almost impossible after two did not finish (DNF) and a fourth place finish. Guyana’s Shan Seejattan picked up all three wins.
He first won ahead of Chet Singh, while in the second he won ahead of Mark Thompson, Kurt Thompson, Gill and Marcell Proffit. However, a three spot penalty for Mark meant that Kurt, Gill and Proffit moved up a spot.

GMRSC’s Vice-President Hansraj Singh (left) poses with CMRC group 4 champion Andrew King.

T&T Marc Gill, CMRC group two winner.

Race three was again Seejattan’s as he opened a lead over the pack but the drama was a first lap incident, again with Mark Thompson, this time on the incumbent champion Gill.
Race officials disqualified him from the race to leave his brother Kurt second and Proffit third.
In the Street Tuner class, Raymond Seebarran picked up two wins in three races with Narine Dasrat handling the other, while in the Sports Tuners; it was Mohamed Ahmad and Adrian Fernandes who won a race each.
The CHOKE gas station Starlet cup had one win each for Motiall Deodass and Anand Ramchand.
The first competitive Radical series in Guyana did not disappoint with Guyanese Calvin Ming showing why he is a professional driver with two wins and a second with former CMRC group four champion Kristian Jeffrey winning the other. Ming also reset the South Dakota record for a time of 33.121 seconds during the final radical race on Sunday last.