Radical challenge

but despite all of this I am looking forward to compete in the Radical World Finals, scheduled for the USA in November. This event will attract all the Radical drivers worldwide,? noted Alvaranga.

With this extensive experience, Alvaranga expects to be a force to reckon with on Heroes Day at Dover.

Rae upbeat

Although he has not been on the winner?s podium position in recent times, Peter Rae with his Epping-sponsored Mazda RX-7 is promising to end the 2014 racing season on a high note.

?Our preparation is still going on. We are still sorting out the issues from the last race meet. I saw the Radical cars in Barbados and they looked high-tech and modern. They also looked extremely light, but so is the ?Zoom Zoom?. The Radicals should put up a good show and I am looking forward to competing against them,? said Rae.

Charles Chen, head of the Jamaica Race Drivers? Club, pointed out that the cars coming from the US will be in particular categories. ?Legally, the Radical cars can race in the MP1 Class. The lowest class they can compete in is MP2. They are also qualified to race in the Thundersport II Class. On paper, they are just as fast as Gore?s and Summerbell?s cars. Their biggest challenge will be the limited time they have to learn and manoeuvre the Dover circuit,? said Chen, who stressed that Alvaranga was very influential in getting the overseas team to come to Jamaica.

On Friday Chen told Automotives that the five cars were at the port in Florida, waiting to be shipped to Jamaica

?Two of the cars will be driven by the drifters. They will leave by Wednesday and are expected to arrive here in two days? time. So by the following week we should able to clear them in time for the drivers to get enough practice on track,? said Chen.

According to the organisation?s website, Radical Sportscars is a British manufacturer and constructor of racing cars from England. The company was founded in January 1997 by amateur drivers and engineers Mick Hyde and Phil Abbott, who built open cockpit sports cars which could be registered for road use and run on a track without modification.

Although most of Radical?s sportscars are road-legal, they also construct some purpose-built racing cars, such as the SR9 Le Mans prototype.

The company?s first car, the Radical 1100 Clubsport, was based on a Kawasaki motorcycle engine placed inside a small open-cockpit chassis. The cars were intended to run in the 750 Motor Club?s races in the Sports 2000 category, with co-founder Hyde driving.

By 1999, Radical had built enough 1100 Clubsports for them to decide to create a single make race series, based around the car. Backed by the British Racing and Sports Car Club, the series featured identical cars, with entry open to anyone who owned an 1100 Clubsport.