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Circuit Racing: A few of the stars at the JRDC’s Independence of Speed

July 31st, 2012

I will keep it simple. If you did not attend the race meet at Dover on Sunday, you missed what might possibly go down as the best event at Dover for 2012. The races in the various classes were more competitive than the 100m showdown at the National Stadium recently. Driving ability and well prepared [...]

Circuit Racing: Pre race-day activity at Dover

July 30th, 2012

Despite a single day designated for qualifying and racing (Sunday the 29th), circuit racers, as I expected, were at the track on Saturday fine-tuning their machines for rigorous duty on Sunday. Natasha ‘Chiney Dolly’ Chang was in the building. When asked at the launch of her race car, what time she was aiming for, ‘Chiney [...]

Circuit Racing: The Williams brothers, Marck Carey and Chiney Dolly- getting ready for Sunday.

July 28th, 2012

Inorder to ensure that the race car performs as expected, if the budget allows, test and tune become vital aspects of the diet. Modern technology allows this process to occur at any time of the day or night and more importantly, away from the race track. So where do drivers/teams test and tune? There is [...]

Circuit Racing: Will Peter ‘Zoom Zoom’ Rae create problems for the King?

July 25th, 2012

Peter ‘Zoom Zoom’ Rae needs no introduction. He is more than familiar with victory lane, but the current era and the Evo invasion, have threatened to relegate the man, better known for the machine referred to as the ‘Pocket Rocket’, to an also ran. Motor racing, however, like society is dynamic. Change is a constant [...]

Circuit Racing: David ‘King’ Summerbell’s ruthless display (video)

July 24th, 2012

There is not much debate about which race-meet is the most anticipated for the year. Race fans will willingly agree that the CMRC race-meet (held in May) is the ‘must-see’ race meet. The Independence race-meet, according to JRDC President, Marck Carey, is the one which usually draws a significantly smaller crowd, when compared to the [...]

Circuit Racing:Natasha ‘Chiney Dolly’ Chang’s race car – Part 2

July 22nd, 2012

In light of the fact that circuit racing at Dover Raceway is in the air (do not ask where) and in a day or two, all things Dover related will take P1 and dominate the blog, my hand is forced, so I have to release the final segment of ‘Chiney Dolly’s’ machine. These were taken [...]

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