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Feb 17, 2018 Sports
Guyanese United States based motorcyclist LeRoy Cort, who races with the Championship Cup Series Racing/American Sportbike Racing Association (CCS/ASRA), has been turning in excellent performances in the North East region, New Hamshire series of racing, ending last season well and looking forward to a good 2018 series after a promising start.
The CCS/ASRA are divided into regions – North East, Atlantic, Mid Atlantic, Mid West, Florida and South East. In the North East region in New Hamshire Cort finished off last season with 1st, 1st, 2nd, 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the events he competed in.
The 2018 season started in Florida and Cort has shown good promise to date as he anticipates and excellent year. Following a 22 hours drive down from the North East, which is still covered in snow, Cort and team arrived at Miami International Speedway in Homestead, Florida the day before the event. The rider informed, “To our surprise some formula 4 cars were doing some testing and we got to see Calvin Ming in action representing Guyana doing some fast laps.”
He disclosed that, “February 10th was practice and qualifying, we were on old tires from last year just putting laps in to get accustom to the track, it was all new for me but we seemed to put a decent time down for the day. We signed up for 2 Heavyweight Races which are usually comprised of 750cc and 1000cc knowing very well we would be under power on the 636cc Kawasaki, and the Gran Prix the finale race of the day.”
Race 1 was the Heavyweight Supersport and Cort recorded a 2nd place finish but was bumped up to first after the 1st place finisher was disqualified because of an illegal airbox.
Race number two, the Heavyweight Superbike, saw Cort romping to a 2nd Place, while in the final race of the day, the Gran Prix, which turned out to be a great battle to the end, Cort said he ran a bit wide on approach to the finish line to get a better drive on the rider directly in front and hit a cone. However, he still managed to hold on for a 3rd place finish.
“It was a great weekend overall and a great start to the season. Very happy we picked up where we left off from last year. The goal this year is to remain on the podium and get better as a rider,” Cort said. He noted that he hopes to one day return to Guyana to throw down with the best riders here and even represent Guyana in the CMRC.
You can follow Cort and his team’s accomplishments on Instagram @ridingrehab or Facebook.com/ridingrehab58.
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