DRAG CHALLENGE #2 – JAMAICA’S DRAG RACING HEART BEATS HERE! PART 1

Author : cmunroe

A colleague stated – “Real recognizes real!” Real does not do fake ! A knock off, Made in C….. Does not appear in your repertoire!

If you subscribe to the above and you declare with C16-filled pride that you are an aficionado of the sport. A sport that dictates that 1/4 mile is enough to settle any worthy debate, it is then embarrassingly rhetorical to ask – Have you marked your territory and selected a personal all-angles vantage point at a NDRC organized, promoted and typically, meticulously executed event, referred to as Drag Challenge? There can only be one answer!!

VERNAMFIELD

The world buckled under financial duress in 2008, but eight reconstructive years have elapsed and if speed and performance at Vernamfield were used as measuring tools to gauge recovery, Jamaica would be on the North-South highway to first world status!

Individuals infected by the impartial speed virus continue to tweak, tune, manhandle and shred the envelope. Boredom was absent at Drag Challenge #2!

We rode in Kardashian-late, a tick after 3pm. You would be saluting Ray Charles if you missed a major improvement at Drag Challenge #2. Jumbotron-like screens were mounted mid-track displaying information that prior to DC #2 required MI6- level clearance!

Everyone was upgraded and added to the VIP list. If you were seated in a private room in an exotic hub in May Pen the digital imprint from the screens would still bellow their prominence!

The system employed and the screens – despite the uber-speeds achieved by the roaring protagonists at the ‘line’ – calmly and vividly stated, reaction time, elapsed time and m.p.h. for both machines ! Yes, there was a screen for each lane. Commendable work NDRC!!

But we were not there to assess visual improvements. War being waged on the concrete was our focus. We didn’t have to wait.

As I made my way to the ‘live stage’ a metallic, vengeful growl illuminated ground zero. Dean Shaw was in the building!

Cecil Munroe Gleaner On-Line Writer

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