Circuit Racing : Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC)

Round 1 – A brief introduction.
May is now an official member of my favorite month club. I intimated in an earlier blog that March is the best month of the year because several major championships commence at about that time. As is obvious, I make the rules around here and as such, I can twist them to suit my own selfish agenda. I have had good teachers – our politicians! Essentially, I am allowed to have two favorite months, March and now May.
May has been promoted on the strength of this fact. In this month, several bold, ambitious racers will leave the confines of their quiet, mundane shores within the Caribbean and head to the region’s premiere circuit racing facility- Dover Raceway, St. Ann, Jamaica, where they will put tire to asphalt, as they contest the first round of the CMRC.

King

The driver who won the championship in 2009 needs no introduction. He is as popular as the US dollar, he is a sound investment (ask TOTAL). Even if he ran a pyramid scheme, your principal would be secure and your rate of return guaranteed. He has never been to the Turks and Caicos and he is no flight risk, unless it is to victory lane! The Caribbean’s best driver for 2009, David ‘King’  Summerbell Jr, knows what lies ahead and as such the bolts are being tightened to ensure the participation of all cylinders when TA1’s, fire is lit.
Team Barbados and Team Guyana have seen the mayhem TA1 (TOTAL/AMS Evo VIII) is capable of and as such they will not be bringing knives to a gun fight. The weapons they have selected to do battle with TA1, ones which will make Mazda proud, should have crossed the high seas by now and may be on the ‘rock’ as we speak. A picture says a thousand words and if my ears did not mislead me, as I looked at the pictures of the machines (from Barbados and Guyana), I am certain that they (the machines) were saying, “TA1 be afraid, be very afraid, your crown is mine!” May 23rd -24th, Dover sell off!
[Information relating to Doug Gore, Chris Campbell and other members of Team Jamaica will follow.]

Cecil Munroe Gleaner On-Line Writer