Motor Sports : A Jamaica Gleaner Blog

Formula 1: Lewis Hamilton begins his title defense this weekend!

March 12th, 2015

If you listen intently, you might just hear a feint drum-roll. The almost inaudible sound will increase in intensity when the weekend begins. It (the sound) will acquire deafening properties, when the 2015 F1 machines assemble for the fading red lights which will signal

Speedwest Weekend – Shellings!! (Part II)

March 7th, 2015

There is no doubt in my mind that when rational thought is applied to the impossible, solutions appear like manna from heaven! What we witnessed at Jamwest Speedway last Sunday, was nothing short of a miracle, based on the minefield the well-thinking voices (promoters,

Speedwest Weekend – Shellings!!

March 6th, 2015

Jamaica remains a unique and rather interesting place to live. Under normal circumstances when individuals relocate, the moving van/truck appears – in the night – and our prized possessions are packed and then brought to the new address. Correct? Explain that to the residents of

Circuit Racing: My version of a motivational speech!

February 27th, 2015

Inhale – exhale – inhale – exhale. I will concede, that nothing groundbreaking or revolutionary exists, or is revealed, in what appears below. And despite my focus being riveted on all things relating to an event which occupies profound significance in our 2015 motorsports

Speedwest Weekend: Lueboyz will be in the building, but..

February 26th, 2015

How many tuning outfits in Jamaica have a Nissan GTR R35 chilling immediately in front of its entrance and wielding a muscle-bound pose? I will give you some time to figure it out. Time is up! Like a scene from a recent edition of

Drag Racing: Steve ‘Janspeed’ Anderson

February 25th, 2015

I did not know the guy personally, but you could not be a member of the ‘fast-car’ fraternity and not know ‘Janspeed’! There were so many stories relating to him and his ‘wicked-machine’. There were countless stories. Here was a character, that for myriad

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