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CIRCUIT RACING IS BIGGER THAN DOUG GORE AND DAVID SUMMERBELL JR! PART 2

August 16th, 2018

Do you think we are all created equal? Long live the Queen of Soul! An indomitable flame! YOU HAVE EARNED OUR RESPECT! CIRCUIT RACING For reasons which will cause honest petrol-heads to grapple, to derive lucid interpretation, a euphoric experience acquires velocity when proximity to Dover’s 1.6 decreases. It may be branded nervous anticipation. It [...]

CIRCUIT RACING IS BIGGER THAN DOUG GORE AND DAVID SUMMEBELL JR! PART 1

August 14th, 2018

Salubrious Mandeville is one of my favourite places on ‘The Rock’. As I ascended the Winston Jones highway on Saturday August 4th, I saw two Dover-bound machines on a wrecker. How did I know that they were going to Dover? Call it professional assumption! I am familiar with both machines. A rather industrious segment of [...]

AND THEY WONDER WHY HE IS THE KING – DAVID SUMMERBELL JR!

August 13th, 2018

Who said Christmas is in December? Circuit racing and Dover Raceway are never far from motorsports discussions on the local scene. And with the recently concluded Independence of Speed the conversations, like turbocharged power received a major boost. For reasons available on anti-social media, David ‘King’ Summerbell Jr. was missing in action on August 6th [...]

RALLYSPORT : FEAR IS NEVER A FACTOR!

August 10th, 2018

In an earlier blog the WRC’S gravel World Cup – Rally Finland - was addressed. It makes no difference how often you see footage from the spectacle, successive clips still leave you with jaw-dropping moments. Do you know what it means to push a machine to its limit? Have you ever abused the rev-limiter on [...]

NO DOUG, NO PROBLEM – DOVER RACEWAY, MONDAY AUGUST 6TH!

August 5th, 2018

Circuit racing in Jamaica has seen better days. Unrelated factors have relunctantly conspired to sabotage the grid which will assemble at Dover Raceway on Monday, August 6th. I have learnt, however, that each grey cloud is accompanied by a silver lining . As such a glorious opportunity is earmarked for drivers who want to jump [...]

WRC FINLAND – ABSOLUTELY ZERO FEAR!

July 31st, 2018

When drivers on the WRC circuit pack their suitcases to head to the forests of Finland, I am willing to bet that each piece of luggage contains a single item – bravery! With ‘walnuts’ the size of watermelons, drivers embrace one slogan, it is a battle cry, a victory claiming attitude – Be Brave, Be [...]

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