Chasing the elusive short
circuit lap record of 35.4 seconds
In Motor Racing it’s impossible for a record to stand for 33 years! – Unless it’s at the South Dakota Circuit, Guyana! Jim Fuller in a Brabham BT38 in F2 spec literally flew around the short circuit, stopping the clocks at 35.4 seconds! And no – one has gone faster since.
In November of 1995 the late Alfred Chen of Jamaica recorded a blistering 36.09 in his Silhouette Peugeot 205 around the 0.8 mile track. Briton John Robinson of Magnum cars in Welling borough, England built the car for Chen to run in Jamaica’s premier “Saloon Car” series in 1994. The mid-engine, center-seat, space frame chassis features push rod suspension and a flat bottom / vent ion under-tray with a one-piece lift-off KEVLAR body. It weighs just 520 kg (1144 lbs) and has a 270 bhp VW Gold engine driving through a 5 – speed staffs gearbox.
Mark Vieira Guyana’s current champion in a heavily modified Mazda RX7 weighting twice as much but with double the power has done 35.62 seconds in 2004 putting him in league with the fastest guys to race at the South Dakota.
Stanley Ming’s Yamaha powered 250cc Kart is up against these machine’s times and on paper he could do it – and maybe record the 34.4 seconds record as Stanley promises!
The latest
person to talk about breaking the 35.4 record set by Jim Fuller
way back in 1973 is Shane Ally. Shane is preparing his Shifter
125cc Kart to make a run at setting the all time lap record for
South Dakota, he not only plans to break this record but to set
a new one that will be there for a long time to come.
