Jagstrip Motorsport Park in Cooks Gate, Clarendon (near Vernamfield), is the place to be on Sunday, August 23 for the hottest motorsports action of the summer, when the Caribbean’s largest tyre retailer, Tyre Warehouse, partners with “Mr. Entertainment” Marcus Barnes, to stage “Summer Burnout ‘09”, an exciting motorsports exhibition featuring a drifting exhibition with the likes of the Mandeville crew, Team Pit Bull and the Nizzpro crew, a bike stunt show, radio controlled cars and burnout contest.

Mandeville drivers have traditionally led the way in sideways “shunting” action with their powerful rear wheel drive cars, with the likes of Alan Chen, Jeremy Groves, Chris Freeman and Barnes himself being the leaders in this area. Fans are sure to enjoy high speed drifting, rather than the spinning in circles that has become commonplace at recent, sub-standard shows that have tried to copy the original flavor and excitement that true drifting brings to the motorsports arena.

Gates open at 10 am and admission is Ja$1,000.00.

Recently RaceJamaica.com discovered that a group of enthusiasts went out to practice drifting at a local hangout. Today we went to check out the action. Not many people showed up for today but it was good, please see videos and photos below.