Wet & Slide dexterity #1 2006
Wet & Slide dexterity #1 2006 Report and Results.
The Montego Bay Motoring Club kicked off it’s 2006 rally sport season with an exciting Wet and Slide Tarmac dexterity held at the Palace Multiplex parking lot on Sunday, January 15. The event was the first of four dexterities planned by the club in addition to the five events organized by the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club.
In characteristic fashion, the club ran an entertaining and well organized event that saw a large spectator turnout to complement the thirty three (33) strong field of competitors entered in the front wheel drive (FWD), rear wheel drive with limited slip differential (RWD-LSD), front wheel drive with limited slip differential (FWD-LSD) and four wheel drive (4WD) categories.
The event got underway at 10.30 am. and each competitor was given two chances to do one lap of the course and again two chances to do two laps. The course was kept wet continuously with the help of the Jamaica Fire Services and the hardworking marshals team from the club. Competitors journeyed as far away as
This type of event forms the entry level of the sport, where the emphasis is on car control, handling and driver skill rather than speed. As such several big name drivers were entered in everyday streetcars as the use of purpose built racecars was discouraged. Join 2005 Dexterity champions Clasford Woolery Jr. and Dean Corrodus led by example, Woolery entering the almost comical Mini Moke in its topless and door less form and Corrodus opting to brave the unfamiliar and challenging waters of rear wheel drive, using a 1982 Toyota Starlet to learn car control the hard way. Other big names present were Douglas Gore (Nissan Pulsar VZR), Richard Rerrie (Mitsubishi Lancer with automatic transmission), Stratty King (Honda Integra) and Maurice Whittingham Jr. in another 1982
Several good performances were put on by the youngsters competing, as Daryl King (competing on the eleventh anniversary of his famous race car driver father’s death) and Jordan Powell (Honda Civic sedan) made serious inroads on the leader board, with King topping both his uncles (Strathon King and Richard Rerrie) to win the front wheel drive class, followed closely by Powell, who had won an event outright last year in King’s borrowed car. Third in class was club photographer Shane Munroe in his Toyota Corolla Levin BZR.
In the Front wheel drive with limited slip diff. class, Gore got the better of champion drag racer Leroy “Ice” Spence, sharing the Nissan Pulsar VZR of club video photographer Peter Boswell. Spence came perilously close to a low concrete wall on one occasion, but it was out of the line of sight of Boswell, who many questioned the reason for loaning his car. He responded that he loves the sport so much and respects the driving ability of both Gore and Spence that he figured it was a good thing to do. Hats off to Peter! He will be doing the driving himself at next Sunday’s Jamspeed Rally Experience/JMMC Dexterity #1 to be held at the Advance Driver Training Centre on Lakes Pen Road, St. Catherine.
The rear wheel drive with limited slip diff. class saw the closest competition of the day, with the overall winner of the event emerging from this class. Maurice Whittingham Jr. and Alan Chen both using rear wheel drive Toyota Starlets had the crowd on their feet as they tried to outdo each other on each successive run. Whittingham eventually got the better of Chen by half a second, but Chen was heard to say that it would not be proper to de throne the reigning king on his first outing, so Whittingham has been duly warned for the next event! Third in class was Kirk Excell in another of Whittingham’s rear wheel drive Starlets. Both these drivers put on a fantastic show ending synchronized drifting display which whipped the crowd into a frenzy, as both cars slid in tandem around the course markers in a display of precision and control. Leslie Madden made a guest appearance in his Subaru Impreza WRX Sti to show how its done in a “big juice” four wheel drive racecar, putting the icing on the cake for the appreciative fans.
The event was made possible by MiPhone, Busta Sof drinks, Super Plus Food Stores, MoBay Freight Services, Mad Dem toys, First Choice Video and Adult Toys, Tropical Battery, The Automotive Performance Center Ltd. and Palace Multiplex.
The next event on the rally sport calendar will be the MBMC Annual Awards ceremony to be held at
Results:
RWD LSD:
1. Maurice Whittingham Jr. 24.05
2. Alan Chen 24.57
3. Kirk Excell 26.51
4. Ivan Lee 26.74
5. Howard Whittingham 26.88
6. Neil Chen 27.43
7. Dean Corrodus 28.48
8. Jeremy Groves 30.74
9. Kenji Lee 36.63
FWD LSD.
1. Doug Gore 26.63
2. Leroy Spence 27.83
FWD:
1. Daryl King 24.30
2. Jordan Powell 25.20
3. Shane Munroe 25.29
4. Richard Rerrie 25.66
5. Donald Grant 25.77
6. Strathon King 25.93
7. Dirk Shim 26.77
8. Henry He 26.86
9. Gregory Little 26.95
10. Clasford Woolery Jr. 27.16
11. Derrick Shim 27.58
12. Phillip Coote 27.65
13. David Baugh 27.72
14. Mario East 28.03
15. Keith Spence 28.28
16. Nickel
17. Rory Kelly 29.04
18. Richard Chan 29.55
29. Jelani Powell 30.20
20. Rohan Jones 32.13
21. Cleve Ottey DNF
4WD:
1. Gregory Brissett 32.31
Championship Run:
1. Maurice Whittingham Jr. 47.57
2. Jordan Powell 48.16
3. Richard Rerrie 49.44
Fastest Overall.
1. Maurice Whittingham Jr. 24.05
2. Daryl King 24.30
3. Alan Chen 24.57
Fastest Rookie:
Donald Grant 25.77
By: Dean Corrodus
