The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) hosted its first Drag Race Meet of the season Sunday at the South Dakota Circuit dubbed Drag Wars 1.0.
The impressive day of ‘Drags’ was however, marred by a race incident involving Azruddin Mohamed (GT-R Nismo) and Denzel Hopkinson (Toyota Supra, commonly called ‘Kong’) late in the day.
Mohamed luckily escaped unhurt although his built -for-speed machine flipped and was badly damaged.
According to reports, the Supra attempted to “bump” into Mohammed’s Nismo to set the stage for the race, but left the line before the official start of the race. Mohamed accelerated in pursuit of the Supra and based on videos circulating, after passing the line, the Supra’s parachute was released and the car ended up in the path of Mohamed who tried to veer away from a collision but instead drove into the grass and flipped.
Earlier in the day, Mohamed clocked 7.842 seconds to set a new record time for the Nismo, while the white GT-R, driven by Terrence Cox, lowered its previous best of 7.501 seconds to 7.449 seconds.
The team still holds the track record of 7.036 seconds set by the Pro-Mod last August.
Meanwhile, in the female invitational category, 16-year-old Natalia Singh, in her Mitsubishi Evolution, took home the trophy.
Kistanti Tejram with her Toyota Carina 212 clocked 14.195 seconds to record the fastest female time, while Singh’s 14.623 was second.
The next Drag Racing event will be the innovative Day/Night racing on June 3 followed by the International meet on August 6.
The next event on the race calendar is Circuit Racing on March 19.
Drag Wars 1.0 – Official Results
16 second – #47 – Ravindra Rodrigues – Toyota Vitz
15 second – #44 – Khalid Khan – Toyota Levin
14 second – #54 – Komal Tejram – Toyota Carina 212
13 second – #16 – Pankraj Ramdeo – Toyota Corolla Runx
12 second – #94 – Raymond John – Toyota Mark 2 ( Suriname)
11 second – #56 – O’neil Higgins – Toyota Caldina
10 second – #80 – Bhai Soekha – Toyota Altezza (Suriname)
9 second – no entries
Unlimited – #1 Nissan GT-R (Goliath) driven by Terence Cox
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Superbikes 600 cc – Shem Chattersingh
Superbikes 1000 cc – Jermaine Chattersingh
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All female class – #86 – Natalia Singh – Mitsubishi Evolution
Top 4 fastest times by female drivers:
1. Kishanti Tejram – #55 – Toyota Carina 212 – 14.195 seconds
2. Natalia Singh – #86 – Mitsubishi Evolution – 14.623
3. Sarah Chattersingh – #11 – Toyota Starlet – 15.171
4. Malicia Lawrence – #29 – Subaru Forester – 15.641
