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Dec 16, 2018 Sports
The second round of the KFC Mega Cup Karting event takes place today at GT Motorsports on Thomas Lands and Albert Street.
Featuring the North American style competition in qualifying, pre-final and final, the event begins at 14:00hrs.
With less than twenty-four hours to go before the Shifter karts battle, the drivers are playing mind games with each another. A visit to the GT Motorsports track yesterday found several of them preparing for the later free practice.
Friday’s unofficial session had the four drivers – Jamaica’s Collin Daley and the Guyanese trio of Kristian Jeffrey, Stefan Jeffrey and Calvin Ming- each separated by just over five-tenths of a second unofficially.
The shifter races are going to be closely competed with all four of the above competitors having competed at the North American level before.
Senior class will be the largest
With the inclusion of the Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) duo of Kristian Boodoosingh and Zachary Boodram, this is easily set to be the largest group of competitors to line up on race day.
Mix in Daley, Kristian Jeffrey and Ming in this class as well and this is sure to be a warm-up to the shifter kart finale that everyone will be talking about.
Then there are the locals; Steven Nobrega who will be joined by the Juniors in John Phang, Mikhail Persaud, Elan Rahaman, Gianai Carpenter and Faraud Mohamed will surely add spice to a battle that will require concentration.
Close competition set for Junior category
With Rahaman, Mikhail, Faraud and Gianai joining Rayden Persaud, there is sure to be some left over adrenaline left in the system.
All the drivers have dealt with each other more than a few times this year and it’s no doubt that by now, they are going to have quite the required amount of knowledge of each other’s driving abilities.
Passing will also be of utmost importance here considering that several last-minute passes earlier this year have not worked out to the detriment of earlier races.
It will be interesting to see how last round’s winner Mohamed prepares for the battle that lies ahead.
Easy Cup; anything but easy
Last time out, Jean-Claude Jeffrey had an easy time in roping to the Easy Cup title but things will be different this time around. Competitors have been priming for the battle that awaits and the new-commers have been exploring new grounds for producing the passing needed in this class.
In the weeks leading up to the event, several competitors have been seen putting in the extra hours with the aim of beating the young Jean-Claude.
What has been phenomenal in the opening round is Brian Woolford who has stormed the competition with some clinical passing; interesting to see if he can muster up the pace to get by Jeffrey; he is sure to string together a pass if he does.
The Rahaman – Ten-Pow battle renewed
The defensive master-class that is Nathan Rahaman went old school the last time out; take the lead early and defend with the most sober of lines and this worked well.
Jeremy Ten Pow had stomped the competition during round one’s earlier qualifying and pre-final but Nathan made one move stick and it was 13 laps of pure concentration.
Don’t be fooled however, the slightest of mistakes could be disastrous for them both as Paige Mendonca was right in Ten-Pow’s exhaust for three –quarters of the race last time out; showing that she has the pace to match the front runners.
Also in that class is Jeremy Ten Pow, Nicolas Sawh and Benjamin Phang.
Tickets for the event cost $1,000 and can be purchased at the gate.
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