The rail car from T&T, dri­ven by Andy Bisses­sar of the Shel­don Bisses­sar Par­ty Time rac­ing team, proved to be the biggest crowd-pleas­er and win­ner at the Guyana Mo­tor Rac­ing and Sports Clun (GMR&SC) In­ter­na­tion­al Drag Meet, dubbed 1320 Heat, on Sun­day at South Dako­ta Cir­cuit in Guyana.

Bisses­sar, who was on a team that in­clud­ed Jagdeo “Mad Cow” Seechar­ran (Nis­san Sky­line), Micheal Math­urine (Hyabusa bike) and Ian Ather­ly (Kawasa­ki Bike), won the Un­lim­it­ed cat­e­go­ry and al­so made the first-ever sev­en-sec­ond 1/4 mile pass in Guyana pro­duc­ing a new Guyana track record of 7.9 sec­onds. That record would set the tone of the week­end as the rest of the com­pe­ti­tion would be forced to play catch up, in­clud­ing Team Mo­hamed of Guyana who owns the ex Ekanoo Rac­ing GTR from Bahrain which is dri­ven by Ter­rence Cox of Dal­las TX.

In 2017, this GTR held the record as the world’s fastest GTR with a time of 7.0 which was done in Bahrain. The GTR al­so had the Guyana track record with a time of 8.0 sec­onds un­til it was tak­en away by Bisses­sar with the 7.9 sec­onds 1/4 mile time.

And when they fi­nal­ly caught each oth­er on the line, the bat­tle was set with Bisses­sar com­ing out on top de­feat­ing Ter­rence Cox and the Team Mo­hamed GTR, the de­fend­ing cham­pi­on. The GTR put up a fight but shed pieces of its gear­box down the track and was un­able to cross the fin­ish line.

Still, the most ex­cit­ing bat­tle of the day came against the Mad Dog Toy­ota Supra dri­ven by Guyana’s top dri­ver Deryck Jais­ingh. It was the race that thrilled those in at­ten­dance. Bisses­sar spun the tires at the start and had to run down the Supra to take the close win just at the fin­ish line. He said there was a re­al fight to catch the Supra.

With the race day wins, Bisses­sar dom­i­nat­ed and claimed the Un­lim­it­ed Class win at the event.

“It was great to see the GMR&SC and Team Mo­hamed’s do­ing work on the track with the launch­pad and the paved area. When we came last year we couldn’t get any trac­tion to make a good run, but this time we can run a 7.9 be­cause the track was prepped much bet­ter.

“We can do even bet­ter here (in Guyana) be­cause at home we run 7.2 but there is a dif­fer­ence be­cause of a bet­ter-prepped track at Waller­field. With some work on this track at South Dako­ta, we can be back and bet­ter the 7.9,” said Bisses­sar, who now has 1/4 mile drag rac­ing track records in three coun­tries. Guyana, Grena­da and St Vin­cent.

There was al­so an Un­lim­it­ed Bike class win for Joel Bruce who rode T&T’s Micheal Math­urine’s Hyabusa bike.

Full re­sults

600cc bikes: Andy Ra­jkar­ran

Un­lim­it­ed Bikes: Joel Bruce/Mikey Math­urine

ATV: Kevin Per­saud

16-sec­ond: Shiv­an Rag­nath

15-sec­ond: Ramesh Per­saud

14-sec­ond: Rafeeq Khan

13-sec­ond: Pierre Singh

12-sec­ond: Damion Per­saud

11-sec­ond: Jagdeo Seecha­ran (T&T)

10-sec­ond: Oneal Hig­gins

9-sec­ond: Rameez Mo­hamed

Un­lim­it­ed: Andy Bisses­sar (T&T)