Racing revs off
Published:Sunday | June 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator
Motor racing season is expected to resume next Sunday when the go-kart championship revs off at the Palisadoes International Raceway in Kingston at 10 a.m.
"The karting resumes on July 4," said Peter Rae, president of the Jamaica Karting Association (JKA), hours before departing for the Homestead track, Florida, where a group of young Jamaicans are scheduled to compete.The Jamaican contingent comprised young karters Thomas Issa and Joshua Sirgany, with fathers Christopher and Ricky, respectively.
The excitement shifts gear to Dover Raceway, St Ann, on August 2, when circuit racing resumes.
On August 29, a Jamaican team will journey to Barbados for the second leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC). Jamaica dominated the first leg last month at the Dover Raceway. David Summerbell leads the four-wheel-drive section while Rae tops the two-wheel-drive category.
In the meantime, president of the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club (JMMC), Errol Anderson, said his club is looking forward to the exciting Spot Valley dirt-track series, which is scheduled to get under way in August in Montego Bay, St James.
Anderson said Rally Jamaica has leased the promotional rights of the Spot Valley series to a group of motor sport personnel who are expected bring new and different ideas for the event.
He had high hopes for Jamaica in the Barbados leg of CMRC and the young karters at the Florida meet.