Circuit Racing

Eight past or present Caterham Motorsport title-winners, led by the marque’s 2023 British Champion Lewis Thompson, head the entry list for this weekend’s Caterham Caribbean Cup (CCC23) at Bushy Park Barbados. With 11 championships won between them in the past four years and more than 40 race wins in this year alone, these seasoned campaigners promise a weekend of high-octane action at the St Philip facility.

The Williams Motorsport team of Toby Ballard, Rrutuj Patki and Henry Williams are heading to race at Bushy Park Barbados for the first time buoyed by victory in last weekend’s (November 10-12) annual Race of Remembrance at the Anglesey Circuit in north Wales in a Caterham 270R. The British trio beat the similar DBR Racing Caterham to the chequered flag by just 50 seconds after 12 hours of racing.

The biggest-ever single shipment of racing cars from the UK to Barbados will leave Portsmouth on Sunday (October 29) on the Geest Line freighter Baltic Klipper. Among the nearly 30 cars on board are those campaigned by six of the top 10 finishers in the 2023 Mission Motorsport Caterham Seven 270R Championship, who are set to light up Bushy Park Barbados next month.

Reigning Champion Mark-Anthony Hinkson is the early leader of the second season of the E-Sports R5 Rally Championship, presented by First Citizens. Nearly 60 competitors from Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and the UK have registered for the competition, which is administered by Caribbean Sim Motorsport, a Member Club of the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF).

British Caterham Champion, 20-year-old Lewis Thompson, will lead an invasion of more than 40 drivers from the British sports car manufacturer’s circuit racing series for the Caterham Caribbean Cup at Bushy Park Barbados next month. The biggest-ever single shipment of race cars to the island will leave the UK south coast port of Southampton later this month, arriving at the Bridgetown Port in mid-November.

The first-ever double-header for the Radical Caribbean Cup (RCC), which showcases the fastest race cars in the region, headlines an action-packed 20-race programme at the Frankie Boodram Wallerfield International Raceway next weekend (July 22/23). Sponsored by Fast Parts Caribbean and organised by the Trinidad & Tobago Automobile Sports Association’s (TTASA), the provisional schedule features more than 16 hours of track action over two days.

Circuit racing fans in Trinidad & Tobago are in for a rare treat next month, when the Radical Caribbean Cup stages its first-ever double-header for the Suzuki-powered Radical SR3 sports-racers at the Frankie Boodram Wallerfield International Raceway. Catering for the fastest race cars in the region, the five-round series administered from Bushy Park is currently being led by T&T hotshot Kristian Boodoosingh, who finished runner-up last year.