Mr So­lo re­turned to ac­tion in the 130-miles-per-hour (mph) class com­plet­ing its four races and tak­ing the che­quered flag in all when the T&T Pow­er Boats As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) held its sec­ond Mo­bil1/Bud­get Ma­rine-spon­sored Re­gat­ta 32 of the Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onships on Sun­day.

The event was con­test­ed over a short­ened dis­tance of 3.5 miles dubbed the ‘hot dog’ styled course which fea­tured two straight­aways and two cor­ners.

The races start­ed at Cumana Bay and head­ed west to­wards the Tem­blado­ra Baux­ite Ter­mi­nal in Care­nage, be­fore turn­ing and re­turn to the start­ing point.

Due to the on-go­ing health pro­to­cols put in place be­cause of the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic, the event was held un­der strict Min­istry of Health guide­lines, both on and off­shore and was held fur­ther out at seas to de­ter the gath­er­ing of crowds on land to view the races.

Al­so, a few mea­sures were added to make sure that spec­ta­tor boats ad­hered to the re­quired reg­u­la­tions while view­ing the race from their re­spec­tive ves­sels.

The record 18-time T&T Great Race cham­pi­ons, Mr So­lo with leg­endary dri­ver Ken­neth Charles at the wheels and fel­low vet­er­an Roger Bell as throt­tle man, was the lone com­peti­tor in its 130 mph class as it made a wel­come re­turn to com­pe­ti­tion af­ter miss­ing the open­ing event last month due to me­chan­i­cal prob­lems

Iron­man with Wayne Han­nock and Guy Cos­ta in the seats al­so com­plet­ed their four races un­chal­lenged cap­tur­ing top marks in the 120 mph class.

Glob­al Warmer dri­ven by Don­ald Web­ster and with Scott Pol­lon­ais along­side start­ed two of their four events and on­ly got points from that.

In the 80 mph, Heat­wave dom­i­nat­ed as it won all four races, ahead of Ham­mer Time (Robert Lo­bo­do, Justin Keiz­er) while To­bag­on­ian en­trant Blue Ice end­ed third over­all.

The hot­ly con­test­ed 70 mph class saw Ex­treme Mea­sures pow­ered by the trio of Justin Keiz­er, Jonathan Tardieu, and Nico­lai As­sam, tak­ing three of the four races with very close rac­ing with Speed Up (Tris­tan Cox, Justin Lennard) who had one win and three sec­ond-place fin­ish­es.

The pair of Kamion George, Gilsom Smith in Time­less got re­demp­tion from An­tho­ny Scott and Videsh Beecham and In­fu­sion IV as they won three out of four.

It was a cat and mouse bat­tle all day be­tween Time­less and In­fu­sion IV.

The day was not with­out some anx­i­ety as in the third race on the west­ern mark­er, In­fu­sion IV hooked and both dri­ver and throt­tle man was eject­ed from the boat.

A safe­ty ves­sel with medics and divers were on the scene as both rac­ers came out un­scathed in the in­ci­dent and are fine.

The duo of Ja­son Aaron, Dil­lion Aaron and Ma­trix fin­ished sec­ond in class and In­fu­sion, third.

How­ev­er, it was not all good news for dri­vers and their crews on the day as the trio of Rey­nal­do Moti­lal, Kern Coltes, and Elle­son Gar­raway and their boat Knot In Slow Mo­tion were plagued with en­gine prob­lems all day.

The third re­gat­ta of the Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onship is set to take place on April 18.