Development Report - South Dakota Circuit - Guyana.

South Dakota Circuit showcasing Multiple Layouts

Introducing, our development progress for South Dakota Circuit - Guyana: version 0.9. The Caribbean SIM-Racing Organisation earlier this year embarked on recreating the Caribbean's premier motor racing league virtually in the name of the Caribbean SIM-Racing Series. Within this series, the virtual tour visited all the known Caribbean circuits in what was once known as the very popular series Caribbean Motor Racing Championship (CMRC) except for one circuit, the South Dakota Circuit of Guyana.

With the development of the South Dakota Circuit now well underway by the CSRO Modding Team it is expected that the CSRO will move full blast into pushing the Caribbean SIM-Racing Series forward. But, they do not plan on stopping there. The development of the Circuits will of course beg the question of the development of the fast-paced machines everyone has come to love from the mixed grid rules and regulations put forward by the executive committee of the CMRC. With some of those machines already being within the chosen simulator, Assetto Corsa, it is no doubt that the CSRO team of talented modders plan to embark on achieving this as well. One such mod has already entered development. The Mazda RX-3 of Barbadian Mark Maloney was featured in the South Dakota Circuit preview video above.

Barbadian Mark Maloney's Mazda RX-3 - a CSRO Development

Speaking on the development of the South Dakota Circuit, the head of the development team on the project, Hal Ghent, had this to say: "The development team is closely following the current GMR&SC's proposals and is beta testing its previous South Dakota FIA Layout; promising multiple layouts at the choice of the sim-racers, who should get a valid virtual South Dakota Circuit user experience in a few week's time."

Speaking to one of CSRO's Founders, Stefan Gajie, had this to say about the project:

"South Dakota was of course always on the list for us, maybe biasedly so at the top since I am from Guyana but, the bigger picture is a virtual rendition of the CMRC series and what it was promised to be for the Caribbean, the premier classification to be represented by on the world stage. The Caribbean SIM-Racing Series will strive to achieve this and hope that it would reignite the passion to see the same within the Caribbean once again. There are of course many other disciplines within the wider world that one must explore but we should have something that is a representative of who we are and where we come from as motor racing competitors and fans alike within the Caribbean and I think the CMRC and now the CSRS will be exactly that."

The Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC), Guyana's sole representative for Motor Racing within Guyana earlier this month announced changes from its previously proposed FIA Sponsored Drawings with a promise to get back to circuit racing as restrictions for the COVID-19 pandemic have lifted throughout the Caribbean. The Caribbean SIM-Racing Organisation is currently seeking a partnership with the outfit to align its movement forward within that part of the Caribbean, more on this in another report.

Photo of new South Dakota Layout posted on GMR&SC's Facebook page.

CSRO's Caribbean Single Make Championship enters Round #3...

Tonight, we go racing on the beaches of California at the Long Beach Street Circuit for Round #3 of the CSRO's 2022 June Caribbean Single Make Championship.

Porsche 911 GT3 992 Cup Cars go around the famous Long Beach Street Circuit Water Fountain

The streets of Long Beach California will come alive tonight as the competitors in our 2022 June, Caribbean Single Make Championship will take their Porsche 911 GT3 992 Cup Cars for the third round of the series. As per normal, the competitors have been throwing down their times on the timing sheet within their week-long free practice session and now, it's time for them to convert those times into tantalizing competition. Once again, Trinidadian Dominic Charles proved that it was business as usual for him to set the fastest time of the week with a 1:20.853, followed closely behind however was Guyanese John Greene who is back this weekend with a 1:20.915. John is seemingly adamant about reclaiming his form since last racing in the series at Fort Grozny. Third on the grid so far is Jamaican Kurt Moss who is also returning to the series after missing last weekend's event and with a time of 1:21.023. Jamaican, and as it was revealed to us in his Competitors in Focus interview (see here for interview), Grandson of the late pioneering motor racing stalwart Mr Hilary Jardine; Michael Paisley was back in the top five once more with a 1:21.228 in fourth. The fifth position went to Jamaican Jayden Harrison this time around with a 1:21.979.

The event goes live this evening at 6 pm Jamaican Time/7 pm Eastern Caribbean time and can be viewed live on our YouTube channel at the following link: https://bit.ly/3zPYr0a

You may also catch up on the highlights of rounds #1 and #2 of the series at the following links:

Round #1: https://bit.ly/3mvTAcx

Round #2: https://bit.ly/3OE369R

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CSRO's 2022 June, CSMC Round #2 Recap...

Last Sunday, 12th June, competitors in our 2022 June, Caribbean Single Make Championship began their evening with the second round's fifteen minutes Qualifying Session at the Sydney Motorsport Park. Trinidadian, Dominic Charles topped the timing sheet with a 1:28.393 and unlike the week prior where he struggled to find a gap on his laps, Sydney proved to be more in his favour as the lap featured many wide turns and a longer straight than Fort Grozny. Jamaica's Michael Paisley was offered an opportunity at a front-row start as his countryman Kurt Moss and Guyanese's John Greene and Oswyne Wilson were amiss in last week's event. Michael managed a cool 1:28.712 and was the only other competitor to dip into the 1:28s. On the final lap of his qualifying run just as the fifteen minutes timer expired another Jamaican in Donmaur Scott crossed the line with a stonking 1:29.654 to claim his right to head the second row in front of new entrant, Mikhail Charles. Mikhail Charles who hails from Trinidad & Tobago has no relation to Dominic Charles but definitely displayed a similar skillset to his countryman in dropping a time of 1:29.723 to not only place himself on the second row but also, score points at the end of his debut race. Closing out the top five was non-other than Guyanese Marlon Younge who found it difficult to muster anything faster than his time of 01:29.752.

See the full qualifying session results below:

Qualifying Session Results for 2022 June, Caribbean Single Make Championship Round #2

The race started in the late afternoon at Sydney Motorsport Park and under the twilight zone, eighteen competitors roared their Porsche 911 GT3 992 Cup cars down the start-finish straightaway into the fastest turn on the calendar. Dominic Charles was great on the start while Michael Paisley dropped down the order at the completion of turn one which saw Donmaur Scott with the inside line elevating himself from third to second. Marlon Younge also suffered majorly at the beginning of the race which saw Jamaican Kayle-Vaden Roper, Guyanese Raul Partab and Jamaican Stephen Pommells being elevated in Marlon Younge's absence to the eighth position.

There was only one incident to speak of at the race start which included Guyanese Sean Lee and Raul Partab, Jamaicans Jayden Harrison, Antonio Campbell, Cavana Matthews and Jevaughan Edie. Heading into turn two Jayden Harrison found himself between the two Guyanese Raul Partab and Sean Lee. Jayden, in a bid to manoeuvre himself forward, was tagged at the rear of his car by Raul Partab which sent him into a spin but not before he tagged Sean Lee and sent him into a spin as well. Antonio Campbell was the one with the unfair short stick at the end of it all while he had nothing to do with it, he did see a Porsche end up sideways in front of him blocking his path. On re-entry, to the race course, Jayden Harrison then collided with Cavana Matthews who in turn had then collided with Jevaughan Edie which ended up sending him into a spin. Jevaughan later mounted a protest at the end of the event and after deliberation from the Race Stewards and the Race Director, it was determined that Jayden Harrison would be given a ten-second time penalty to be added to this total race time for the unsafe re-entry onto the race course.

See the full race session results below:

Race Session Results for 2022 June, Caribbean Single Make Championship Round #2

For more on the race, you may view our thirty minutes extended highlights of the event here:

Thirty minutes extended highlights of 2022 June, Caribbean Single Make Championship Round #2

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