Jamaica’s Myers is Radical Caribbean SR3 Cup Champion

Jamaica’s William Myers is the new Radical Caribbean SR3 Cup (RCC) Champion, clinching the title in last weekend’s (November 16/17) final round at South Dakota, organised by the Guyana Motor Racing & Sports Club (GMR&SC). In a text-book demonstration of consistency, he claimed the regional title in its second year, with nine podiums in the 12 races and fourth-placed finishes in the other three. Despite failing to win in his Rookie season, Myers beat Reigning Champion and three-time race-winner Stuart Maloney to the title by seven points.

The double Jamaica Race Drivers’ Club (JRDC) MP2 Champion had signalled his intentions from early, when he topped the times in the first of two Free Practice sessions at the opening RCC round at Bushy Park Barbados in April; always at the sharp end of the action, the newcomer finished third twice, then second in the day’s final race, ending the day second on points to Mark Maloney and establishing himself as a title challenger. Having never slipped below third in the standings and trailing Stuart Maloney by just one point ahead of last weekend’s finale, a trio of third-place finishes was enough for victory.

Racing at South Dakota for the first time, British F4 Champion Zane Maloney added two more victories to his round three Bushy Park hat-trick, making him the season’s most successful driver in terms of race wins, with five; it could have been six, but for he and his uncle Mark being excluded from the results of the final race for failing to attend the weighbridge after the finish. The GMR&SC also presented Zane with a plaque for setting a new outright lap record for the 0.78-mile circuit during Saturday Qualifying, at a time of 32.74s, representing an average speed of 85.75mph (137.99kmh).

That pole position time placed him comfortably ahead of the field, nearly eight-tenths quicker than Trinidad & Tobago’s Luke Bhola, second an improvement on his previous best grid position of fifth; lone Guyanese driver Kristian Jeffrey was third, just a further three-hundredths adrift. Bhola’s team-mate Kristian Boodoosingh equalled his best qualifying result with fourth, while title contenders Myers and Maloney lined up on row three, three-tenths apart. Mark and Sean Maloney - each had headed the points table earlier in the season - were on row four, with Jamaica’s Horatio Brown at the back.

Sunday’s first of three 15-lap races was the only one run in the dry, but the 16-year-old Maloney did not make the best of his pole position, leaving work to do to pass drivers with more experience of the venue and fight back through the field. He crossed the line 2.6secs ahead of Bhola, who translated his best qualifying performance in to his first podium finish. Myers completed the podium ahead of title rival Stuart Maloney, assuming the series lead by two points, an advantage increased to 14 when Maloney was excluded from the results at post-race scrutineering for being underweight, promoting hometown boy Jeffrey to fourth place, after recovering from an early spin.

The reverse grid for race two had Brown and Sean Maloney on the front row, with the title contenders fourth and fifth; in a wet race, with laps times around 3secs off qualifying pace, Zane Maloney claimed his second win of the day, 7.4secs ahead of Boodoosingh, with Myers third again, increasing his margin over Stuart Maloney, who finished fourth, to 17 points.

Based on points scored in the first two races, Zane Maloney and Myers were on the front row for the day’s final encounter, with Stuart Maloney and Bhola on row two. In conditions worse than for race two, Zane Maloney, a self-confessed fan of racing in the wet, was followed across the line by his uncles Mark and Stuart, the trio covered by less than nine-tenths. When the winner and second-place finishers failed to report to the weighbridge, however, the reigning champion inherited the win, by 1.8secs from Boodoosingh, whose result kept him ahead of Zane Maloney to finish third in the title chase. Finishing third once again clinched the title for Myers, bringing the regional series to an appropriate conclusion with a Barbadian, a Jamaican and a Trinidadian finishing in the top three places following a final round staged in Guyana.

Radical Caribbean SR3 Cup, round 4
South Dakota, Guyana (November 16/17)
Qualifying:

Pole - Zane Maloney (BAR) - Suzuki/Bushy Park Barbados/Rock Hard Cement/Sol Radical SR3 RS, 32.748s, 137.99kmh/85.746mph

2nd - Luke Bhola (T&T) - Bholas Marketing/Fast Parts/Torco Race Fuels/Richtune/Garage 61/TechPoint Tuning Radical SR3 RS, + 0.795s

3rd - Kristian Jeffrey (GUY) - Torginol Paints Radical SR3 RS, + 0.824s
4th - Kristian Boodoosingh (T&T) - CR Boodoosingh & Sons Ltd/Fast Parts/Torco Race Fuels/Richtune/Garage 61/TechPoint Tuning Radical SR3 RS, + 1.003s
5th - William Myers (JAM) - KFC Radical SR3 RS, + 1.026s
6th - Stuart Maloney (BAR) - Bushy Park Barbados Radical SR3 RS, + 1.332s
7th - Mark Maloney (BAR) - Rock Hard Cement/Bushy Park Barbados Radical SR3 RS, + 1.365s
8th - Sean Maloney (BAR) - Bushy Park Barbados Radical SR3 RS), + 1.442s
8th - Horatio Brown (JAM) - Fast Parts/Torco Race Fuels/Richtune/Garage 61/Techpoint Tuning Radical SR3 RS, + 2.323s

Race 1 (15 laps): 1st Z Maloney, 8m 33.647s; 2nd Bhola, + 2.621s; 3rd Myers, + 3.416s; 4th Jeffrey, + 13.353s; 5th Brown, + 24.437s. DNF: M Maloney, Boodoosingh, Sean Maloney. Excl: Stuart Maloney. Fastest lap: Z Maloney, 33.331s, 135.58kmh/84.25mph Race 2 (15 laps): 1st Z Maloney, 9m 03.552s; 2nd Boodoosingh, + 7.419s; 3rd Myers, + 10.474s; 4th Stuart Maloney, + 11.742s; 5th M Maloney, + 20.105s; 6th Sean Maloney, + 22.561s; 7th Jeffrey, + 25.226s; 8th Bhola, + 1 lap. DNF: Brown. Fastest lap: Z Maloney, 35.310s, 121.98kmh/79.52mph Race 3 (15 laps): 1st Stuart Maloney, 9m 45.270s; 2nd Boodoosingh, + 0.852s; 3rd Myers, + 5.535s; 4th Jeffrey, + 28.971s; 5th Bhola, + 37.166s; 6th Brown, + 1 lap; 7th Sean Maloney, + 2 laps. Excl: Z Maloney, M Maloney. Fastest lap: Stuart Maloney, 37.954s

Points after round 4: 1st Myers 176 points; 2nd Stuart Maloney 169pts; 3rd Boodoosingh 141pts; 4th M Maloney 131pts; 5th Z Maloney, 125pts; 6th Sean Maloney 114pts; 7th Bhola 96pts; 8th Brown 76pts; 9th Jeffrey 46pts; 10th Stuart Johnson – T&T (Fast Parts/Mitco Water Laboratories Radical SR3 RS), 18pts

Qualifying rounds: Apr 29, Bushy Park Barbados (BPMSI); Jun 10, Bushy Park Barbados (BPMSI); Aug 31/Sep 1, Bushy Park Barbados (BPMSI); Nov 16/17, South Dakota, Guyana (GMR&SC)

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