The Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club staged the 2009 renewal of the Raynor King Memorial Rally at Lydford, St. Ann, on Sunday, August 16, on the old bauxite roads of the Jamaica Bauxite Mining Company. The first rally of the 2009 season after the two previously scheduled tarmac events did not materialize; this event was a must for the popular rally sport club, with fans braving the elements to see their stars in action.

Fastest on the day was the rally team of Richard Rerrie/Winston Dawson in the KIG/Puma/Leroy’s Auto Glass/Cal Doors/ B & B Auto/Pit Bull Subaru Impreza WRX Sti, with Rerrie winning the event named in his uncle’s honor for the first time after numerous attempts. Driving in the JA8 class, the team was pretty much unchallenged for the win, posting an accumulated time of 31 minutes 15:997 seconds over the eleven stages run on the day.

Team Tropical Battery driver Natasha Chang driving the Castrol/Goodyear/Forza/Full Throttle Energy drink/Blue Code Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V had Liguid Lightning’s emerging icon Matthew “The Magnet” Gore calling the notes for her on the fast marl stages, and the pair worked well to earn second place overall and first in class JN8 with a time of 35 minutes 2:261 seconds.

The most committed team on the day may well have been Jordan Powell/Gina Tomlinson driving the Goodyear/ Gunk/Lloyd’s of Montego Bay/Performance centre/Add-Vantage Auto Parts Toyota Corolla FX, who were scorching the stages from early on, setting fastest 2 wheel drive times on many of the stages. Despite getting a 30 second penalty on Special Stage 1 as a result of incorrect pace notes which was also to affect the team of Dean Corrodus/Pernell Fitz-Coy and Chang/Gore, third place overall was still the result for the young man from Montego Bay who was eager to finish this event well, as he was first introduced to the sport through the person who was being remembered by this event. The team also won fastest in Class JA2 in addition to being the fastest 2 wheel drive entry.

Fourth overall and first in Class JA4 was 2008 National Rally sport Driver’s champion Thomas “Cruz” Hall and co driver Andre Gordon in their Xsomo/Sunoco Fuels/Advantage Performance Parts Toyota Starlet turbo. This was the team’s second event after returning to competition after a major mishap on last year’s Rally Jamaica not far from where these stages were run. Despite having visibility problems like most of the other competitors when it started to rain in the afternoon and having to slow drastically when the windshield fogged up, the team still managed to soldier on through the elements to post an elapsed time of 36 minutes 5.441 seconds.

“Miserable” was the word chosen to describe the conditions when it started to rain in the afternoon for the team of Dean “Duct Tape” Corrodus and Pernell “ 20 valve” Fitz-Coy in the Tropical Battery/Kumho Tires/Performance Centre/Add-vantage Auto parts Honda Civic Type R. Already about 30 seconds down to the field when a wrong pace note caused them to run off and stall the car before regaining the road on the very first timed run of the day, they slowly clawed back a major portion of the time throughout the day, but were again to go 30 seconds down when penalized for making a mistake on the reverse run of the same stage! Nevertheless, they managed to finish first in Class JA3 and 5th overall, with the Horse P Racing built VTEC engine singing a song that echoed across the hills and valleys for miles around as the team attacked the stages in earnest.

Dion Gardner and Julian Gordon had a frustrating event as the Petcom/Autosource Mitsubishi Mirage suffered from the start with a lack of power and a consistent misfire, but they were still able to place 2nd in Class JA3. Son of Raynor, Daryl King took to the stages of the event with Rameses McGregor by his side to continue the King tradition in motorsport, and was rewarded with a 2nd place finish in the JA2 class in his newly built Rory’s Texaco/Ankara Auto Toyota Starlet. Jeremy Groves/Sean McDonald in a turbo charged rear wheel drive Impact Industries Toyota Starlet were quite the crowd pleasers with their signature sliding sideways driving action, but suffered a punctured tire on one of the morning stages that dropped them down the leader board before a last stage problem which saw them lose a great deal of time, but were still able to be classified as finishers of the event. Two teams failed to finish the day: That of Noel Sloley/Dorian Dolphy (left the road) and Salvador Solis/Nigel Lyn (broken driveshaft), both teams fielding Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions in the JN8 class.

For more photos from this event please click here: http://www.racejamaica.com/2009/08/raynor-king-rally-09-photos/

For full quality video please click here

From motorsports writer Dean Corrodus

Photos by Shane & Omar Munroe

To say that racing at Dover is exciting is to do it an injustice. From the excitement of testing and tuning in the rain in the days preceding the two day Caribbean Motor Racing Championship Round 1 held on May 24 & 25, to the thrills and spills, the impressive lap times, a new lap record being set, the Minister of Sport and Culture flying in to the event with President of the Jamaica Race Drivers Club Hilary Jardine on board with his broken foot in an army helicopter that landed on the track, the Lime key mound on the infield, the beautiful young ladies promoting various sponsor’s items, the variety of mouth watering dishes, the music, the sun…….Dover raceway was certainly the place to be, but if you couldn’t make it, the event was streamed live on the internet for a worldwide audience on the Jamaica Race Drivers Club website at www.jrdc.org.

Left to right: Minister of Sport & Culture Hon. Olivia Grange with JRDC President Hilary Jardine;

Mark Maloney, David Summerbell & Douglas Gore and a section of the crowd.

David Summerbell of Jamaica driving his Motor Sales & Service Ltd/Flow/AMS Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII triumphed in emphatic fashion on the weekend, not only bettering his own track record, but also winning the three Caribbean Motor Racing Championship races to lead the 2009 charge with a maximum 30 points. Defending champion Stuart Maloney of Barbados in his Automotive Art Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI finished in second place in two of the races and fourth in another to emerge in second place overall, with brother Mark Maloney in third place in race one driving the Red Bull Mazda RX3, a crowd favorite and again arguably the sweetest sounding car on the track, going through its close ratio sequential gearbox while spitting huge sheets of flame from its side exit exhaust. Mark was to finish 2^nd in the 2^nd CMRC race and 5^th in the final race with a punctured tyre.

L –R: Stuart Maloney, Mark Maloney & Christopher Campbell.

In the build up to the races there was a lot of speculation as to the times and records expected to be broken, but in the end it was “King” David who retained his crown on home turf, with the 2007 champion Douglas “Hollywood” Gore suffering multiple problems, and another Doug, Maloney of Barbados this time and father of Stuart and Mark, also suffering engine damage in practice before the event. The Jamaican team was rounded out by Chris Campbell in the Campbell’s Wholesale Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV, who finished 6^th in race 1 and 3^rd in race 3, with Jamaica’s Peter “Bull” Thompson in his E10 Mazda RX7 turbo fourth in both the first and second CMRC race.

In the very competitive IP races, it was Neil Gore driving the Motor Sales & Service Ltd/Slam Condoms/ Sherwin Williams Paints/ Guardian Asset Management/Boomerang Tyre Sales/Spinal Cord Foundation Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X who won race 1 in the IP27 class, followed by team mate Guy Fraser in the Team Mobay Racing/ Guardian Asset Management Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI and Maurice Whittingham in the Maurice’s gas & Appliances/Montego Bay Motoring Club Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution II, while in race 2 it was Gary Williams in the newly repainted black and white Team Mobay Racing/Slowboy Racing/Sunoco Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI who crossed the finish line first ahead of Gore and Teddy Burton in the MAD/Uncle Clem’s Meats Honda Civic turbo.

Class IP33 saw Gary Barrett from the Cayman Islands driving his Honda Civic take 1^st place, with Glenford Bowla in the D&B Auto repairs/Track Price Plus BMW M3 in 2^nd and Dwayne Rowe in the Crawle Industrial Garage turbo-charged Toyota Starlet in 3^rd. In race 2 it was Alan Chen driving the Allied Construction /A1 Equipment/ Sexy Princess turbocharged Toyota Corolla SR5 who crossed the finish line first ahead of Dean Corrodus in the Team Mobay Racing/Kumho Tyres/Automotive Performance Centre/Horse P Racing Honda Civic Type R after an entertaining and close race-long battle, with Horse P racing’s Christopher “Orange” Wright shadowing them for third.

In IP37, Brian Foster in the Horse P Racing/Vector Engineering/Sherwin Williams Paints/Ultra 2000 Honda Civic came out on top in race 1, followed by Nigel Edwards in the turbo-charged Speed Zone Auto VW Golf GTi and Dean Corrodus in the Kumho Tyres/Performance Centre Honda Civic Type R in third, having started from the back and crossed the finish line first, but was demoted to third place by a breakout penalty. The same was to happen to Corrodus again in the second race, as a charge from last place on the grid again netted him a breakout penalty having crossed the line first. The race win was taken by Rohan Clarke of Team Xpress racing in his Nissan Pulsar with Nigel Edwards again in 2^nd place and Challenger Auto Service Centre’s Ivan Lee in 3^rd in a Toyota Corolla SR5.

In the Modified Production classes, Maurice Whittingham in the Maurice’s Gas & Appliances/ Montego Bay Motoring Club Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution II won race 1 followed by Peter Rae in the A&A Vulcanizing/Rae Tech Auto Mazda RX7 and David Anderson in the Quik Money Cash Transfer/Hilton Kingston Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI in 3^rd place. In race 2 the lone finisher was Peter Rae.

The MP 2 class saw Alan Chen lead Teddy Burton and Dean Corrodus across the line, while in the second race it was Chen again closely followed by Burton and Kris Bowla in the D&B Auto Repairs BMW M3 who finished on the podium after the race was red flagged due to an accident involving a number of cars at the entrance to the pit lane. Chen was awarded overall champion of the race meet at the awards ceremony held at the Jamaica Pegasus on Tuesday evening.

Defending MP1 class champion and 2008 Overall Dover circuit racing champion Gary Barrett stamped his authority immediately in the first MP1 class race, taking the win from Brian Foster (Horse P racing/Vector Engineering/Sherwin Williams paints Honda Civic) and Noel Golding Jr. driving a Geo Metro.

In race 2 it was debutant Kyle Gregg in the BD Gregg Honda Civic that had a maiden victory, with Gary Barrett and Brian Foster in 2^nd and 3^rd respectively.

The IP45 class for street cars was the domain of defending champion Raymond Donaldson in the HS Energy/ Team Myzery Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII, taking victory in race 1 over Chressmore “Bolt” White in the Autosource Mitsubishi Lancer Station Wagon and Kirk Diaz in the Anderson Auto/Auto Source Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII. Race 2 was much the same for Donaldson, with Diaz 2^nd and Nigel Thomas third in the Wilson’s Hardware/Angelo’s Customs Auto Mitsubishi Lancer to make it an all Mitsubishi affair in the class.

L-R: Chen, Rodney and Blake.

In the two wheeled department, champion rider Stephan Chin rode away with the victory in the three motorcycle races run on his Holey Bulla sponsored Honda CBR 600RR machine, with Adrian Blake on Greased Lightning Products Honda RR 2^nd in race 1 and 3^rd in race 3. Halquin Rodney on the Cabotine Boutique/All Signs/Wheels Used Parts “Money Bike” placed 2^nd in races 2 and 3, while the other podium finisher was Brook Miller on the VP Race Fuels/Bridgestone/ Mix 96.9 FM Suzuki 650 who was 3^rd in race 2.

Chris Campbell scored his maiden victory at Dover Raceway in the Thundersport Race 1, driving the Campbell’s Wholesale Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV, with Gary Williams and Doug Gore in 2^nd and 3^rd place respectively. Campbell has shown great potential since his debut last year and it was only a matter of time before he secured his first win.

Round 2 of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships will take place at the Bushy Park Circuit in Barbados on August and the third and final round will be flagged off at the South Dakota Circuit in Guyana in November. Look to see the Guyanese team join the fray after having missed round one of the championship due to mechanical maladies as well as top Barbadian driver Roger Mayers in a potent Ford Focus circuit car that currently holds the lap record in Barbados.

For further information, call Daneisha Morgan at the Jamaica Race Driver’s Club office at 924-JRDC or visit the club’s website at www.jrdc.org.

Round 3 of the JMMC Taboo Sprint Championship will be held on Sunday June 7, 2009. Please see the additional supplementary regulations below:

This event is sanctioned by the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club and held under the present Motor Sports Rules and Regulations of the JMMC/MBMC and is open to all members in good standing with the MBMC and its affiliated clubs.
PERMIT# JMSP2009-13
Name of Event: BAY WATA Time Attack (Sprint #3)
Date: Sunday June 7, 2009.
Type of Event: Tarmac sprint.
Location: Ironshore, Montego Bay.
Start: 8:45 a.m.
Sign in & Tech: 8.00 am. To 8.10 am. at start.
Inspection
Drivers Meeting 8.15 a.m. at start.
Timing: Electronic Timing with stop watch backup(s)
As per JMMC sprint Rules: Three 3 runs (2 laps each), One 1 Championship run (3 Laps)
Trophies As per JMMC/MBMC regulations.
License Competition License for 2009 must be presented at event.
Requirements MINIMUM JMMC PROVISIONAL LICENSE
Entry Fees $3,000.00/ All Cheques payable to MBMC
Entries Open Wednesday June 3, 2009.
To: Maurice Whittingham/Terry Hamilton @ Maurice’s Gas Barnett
Street Ph. 952-2000/1629
Or JMMC, Ferry Industrial Terrace, Mandela Highway, Kingston 11.
Ph. 934-1288
Entries Close Sunday June 7, 2009, 8.10 a.m. at start
Provisional Results After last Championship run at finish
Event Officials
Organizer Sean Williams 877-7324/Stephen Mahoney 388-1664
Secretary Liz Allen 297-3283
Stewards Larry Henriques, Chris Sunderland, David Neil Baugh
Clerk of the Course Colin Chambers 861-6369
Scorer Liz Allen/ Marcia Dawes-Lamey
Scrutineer Norman Bernard 434-7743
Ambulance Jamaica Red Cross 984-7860.
Medical Officer: TBA
Insurance Thwaites Finson Sharpe.
JMMC/MBMC Scrutineers, reserve the right to scrutineer any vehicle on
request.
MONTEGO BAY MOTORING CLUB (M.B.M.C)
72a Barnett street, Montego Bay, Jamaica, W.I.
Phone 952-2000/1629
Maurice Whittingham - President, Stephen Mahoney - Vice President,
Liz Allen- Secretary, Terry Hamilton – Treasurer
Directors- Sean Williams, Richard Rerrie, James March, Patrick Gore, Andrew Forsythe.

Planning for Rally Jamaica 2009 is already underway, and it is destined to be the best one yet! Keep checking http://RaceJamaica.com for more news and information on this event!

MEEKE AND NAGLE REPEAT SOL RALLY BARBADOS WIN
Bird describes event as “the best rally in the world”

Northern Ireland’s Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle won the Caribbean’s biggest annual international motor sport event, Sol Rally Barbados 2009, for the second time last weekend (May 29-31); driving the Digicel/Red Bull/ARMAG Subaru Impreza WRC S9 for the first time, Meeke’s winning margin was 16.75s, almost identical to last year.
After receiving their trophies from the Minister of Sport, Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo, at the Prizegiving at The Boatyard in the island’s capital Bridgetown yesterday (June 1), Meeke compared the experience with his ‘day job’ as Peugeot UK’s driver in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, which he currently leads: “In the IRC, I get a real sense of satisfaction when I get home for a job well done, but here I actually enjoy it while I’m doing it.”
As last year, the second step of the podium was occupied by England’s Paul Bird and Ian Windress (SuperCasino.com/Vent Axia/VK Vodka Kick Ford Focus WRC07). ‘Birdy’ remarked: “It just doesn’t get much better than this, this really is the best rally in the world, the crowds, the enthusiasm, the people.”
Third, and highest-placed local crew, were former winner Paul Bourne and Stuart Maloney (Banks/LIME/Virgin Atlantic Subaru Impreza WRC S9), who finished a further 56 seconds behind Bird. Highest-placed regional crew were Jamaica’s Jeffrey Panton - another former winner - and Mike Fennell Jnr (Automotive Art/Bearings and Seals/Jamaica Freight and Shipping/Seaboard/Castrol/

Below are photos from the Dover Caribbean Invasion race meet. The event was organized by The Jamaica Race Drivers Club (JRDC). The highlights of the event included the first leg of the Caribbean Circuit Racing Championship. David Summerbell was the star of the day as he took top honours in the CCRC races. For photos from qualifying and practice please click here.

Below are photos from the Dover International Race Meet Day 1 featuring cars from the Caribbean Circuit Racing Championship 2009. More photos to follow from Race Day 2, as well as videos.