The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) kicked off its first competitive event of the 2017 season with the ‘Reaction Dragz’, hitting the South Dakota Circuit this past weekend.
Racers from all over the country along with Surinamese dragsters visited the strip to battle head-to-head in the season’s curtain-raiser.
Winners were crowned in the various classes as thousands of fans were treated to exciting battles of supersonic straight line acceleration.
Suriname’s Vishal Ramcharran made hay in the sunshine with his Toyota Mark X, winning the nine-second, 10-second and 11-second classes which earned him champion driver honours.
His compatriot, Raymond John piloting his Toyota Chaser, won the 12-second division.
But the wow moment award of the day belonged to the local speedsters, driving Mohamed’s Enterprise’s Nissan GTR Goliath and Nismo.
Lined up in the Unlimited 7-seconds class, the two built-for-speed machines provided a real-life Fast and The Furious exhibition.
The Nismo was quicker after the green light, but the Goliath, driven by Josh Ramsey, rocketed past the Nismo to record what is now the fastest time of 7.569s at the South Dakota.
In the process, it lowered its previous record of 8.2 seconds. The black Nismo finished in 8.906 seconds.
Other drivers visiting the winner’s circle were Guyanese Imran Khan who made a successful defence of the 13-second class, Sunil Singh in the 14-second and Devendra Persaud in the 15-second class.
The motor racing season continues on April 2 with the GMR&SC staging a local circuit race prior to the initial leg of the annual Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) in Jamaica on May 21.
