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Team Summerbell Racing (TSR) – Quietly confident and optimistic.

October 9th, 2011

Red Bull gives you championships! Congratulations Sebastian Vettel, F1 World Champion 2011! The anticipated showdown between David Summerbell Jr. and Doug Hollywood Gore at the first race of the 2011 circuit racing season drew a mammoth crowd to the rural hills at Dover Raceway, St Ann. At the end of the day’s events, Summerbell fans [...]

Drifting : Supra attack!

October 5th, 2011

I will resume my circuit racing coverage in a day or two. I saw this video recently and if you are a fan of the Toyota Supra, you will thank me for sharing. Supra Attack! What do you think about the Supra in the video? Cecil Munroe Gleaner On-Line Writer

Circuit Racing: Heroes of Speed – Oct. 16-17

October 1st, 2011

I can see the tears in the bucket positioning themselves to breach their retaining wall. I refuse to accept that the final race meet for the 2011 circuit racing season is upon us! Time knows no leisure, so my coverage of all things Dover-related begins now. I will be talking with Dean Shaw, to ascertain [...]

Drag Racing: Orville Williams’ Nissan Pulsar

September 27th, 2011

Many years ago when ‘Clevie’ was God’s gift to Nissan, there was an odd-shaped machine that threatened to reorganize the pecking order in the drag racing food chain. That machine was the Nissan Pulsar and when Clevie waved his wand and modified the relevant nuts and bolts, the demon released, was programmed with an impressive [...]

F1: Will Vettel clinch the title in Singapore?

September 23rd, 2011

I love to hate Singapore. This city-state, a minute segment of the earth’s crust, a dormitory country, where they have to build high, instead of wide, to house highly educated, gainfully employed, but spoilt citizens, is unmatched in its ability to hurl my envy into the counter-productive – red zone! Somewhere in the world, I [...]

Vettel: Are we witnessing one of F1′s greatest of all time? – Part 2

September 17th, 2011

For the 2011 season, it was accepted, without a spoken word of protest, that Red Bull Racing was the team to beat and Vettel’s crown became the prize for successful warriors. But, Vettel is a beast in the cockpit, a slave to victory’s commands and when you have Adrian Newey building your ‘go fast buggy’, [...]

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