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CIRCUIT RACING : STEPHEN GUNTER SPEAKS ABOUT TA-1 – FINALLY ! Part 2

April 30th, 2020

TEAM MOBAY RACING At that time, Team Mobay Racing was a Category 5 hurricane, boasting machines that packed frightening performance. In its stable, Team Mobay Racing had machines that would leave a trail of desolation, despair and utter dismay, to be shared in equal portions, to drivers/teams that were hallucinating and advanced a challenge. Team [...]

CIRCUIT RACING : STEPHEN GUNTER SPEAKS ABOUT TA-1 – FINALLY ! Part 1

April 30th, 2020

Stephen Gunter is the human encyclopedia for Jamaican motorsports. Do you want to know who was driving what and competing where in the 1970′s, 80′s, 90′s and at present? Ask Stephen. If he is in an accommodating mood, he will tell you who the individual was/is, the make and model of machine he was driving, [...]

QUESTION – DO YOU NEED A 1000 HP COROLLA?

April 28th, 2020

Uncanny now, that features of life that we thought were necessary and vital to support a sane existence, have been absent for a protracted period and as the saying goes – life goes on. Obviously, motorsport is excluded. Yes, I am biased. If the mutterings and pronouncements are accurate, engines will soar until they redline, [...]

FLASHBACK : CHRIS CAMPBELL’S ULTIMATE DRIVING MACHINE!

April 27th, 2020

The Bavarians take great pride in their automotive exploits. But, you do have the rare occasion when an individual, who has benefited from a moment of profound inspiration, seeks to improve Picasso’s Weeping Woman. Chris Campbell, possibly, is one such individual. And in his machine, we saw on local soil, a swashbuckling, vicious, representation of [...]

CIRCUIT RACING : HE IS 1.6 MILES AHEAD – HE IS THE MOST POPULAR CIRCUIT RACING DRIVER!

April 22nd, 2020

So, 876 Streets is keeping racing alive with Instagram Live sessions dubbed – Racers in Quarantine. Some rather elite drivers from different motorsport disciplines have been a part of the series thus far. The sessions have been well received and apparently, the fact that we are indirectly under house arrest – to fight Mrs ‘Rona [...]

CIRCUIT RACING : THESE TWO WILL BE SORELY MISSED AT DOVER!

April 20th, 2020

We always knew, but, it was never confirmed. No credible source offered insight, until recently. If what Stephen Gunter stated in a recent chat session with 876 Streets is accurate, the possibility that we will see this orgy of explosive speed in action, at anytime in the foreseeable future, is a tear-enhancing zero! Should we [...]

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