GMR&SC's Three Hours Endurance Race held on the South Dakota large Circuit June 22nd 2008. Event sponsored by GT&T Cellink Plus, CARIB Beer, Sunburst Orange Juice and Ray's Motor Spares & Auto Sales

Endurance racing returned to the South Dakota Circuit with a bang on Sunday June 22nd 2008. Eighteen cars started the event but that number went up to about twenty two as late comers joined the fun mid race. Other then the Honda S2000 of Team Boodhoo most of the other entries were powered by Toyota 4AGE engines. Also in the mix were five turbo charged Toyota Starlets but by the time the checkered flag was being lowered only the totally stock Team Ray's Motor Spares Starlet/Glanza was still up and running for the turbo charged entries. It was three brutal hours of non stop racing as many driver pushed to the limit to hold on their positions, most of the teams that started were unable to complete the three hours.

This was such an amazing event that it will be remembered for a long time to come. It really does not matter if your team won or not or if you were not able to complete the full three hours, just to be able to say that you were part of this incredible event is enough bragging rights for a long time to come. The GMR&SC takes this opportunity to congratulate every team and driver who took part.

Adrian Fernandes and Anand Ramchand driving the Trans Pacific/Ramchands Auto Body Toyota Corolla sped away with the overall victory completing 111 laps in the three hours. They also picked up the checkered flag in the 1800cc category. Second position in the 1800cc grouping and fourth place overall went to Kamal Seebarran, Bunny Persaud and Vinu Sawh of Team Rays Motor Spares.

Team Fullworks 2 captained by Aaron Bethune with co-drivers Shawn Seejatan & Naresh driving a Supercharged 4AGE Corolla placed first in the unlimited class and second overall with 111 laps. Shairaz and Shahab Roshandin also of Team Fullworks placed first in the 1600cc class and third overall, they completed 107 laps even thought they were forced to spend almost 15 minutes in the paddocks repairing a broken fuel pump on their Toyota Levin.

Special mention must be made of the extraordinary contribution of Fullworks Auto Spares, of the eighteen cars that started this event, five of those cars were sponsored or owned by Fullworks.

With word about the amazing motor racing action in Guyana spreading across the globe, two team from Suriname made their way across the border to participate in this amazing endurance event. Team Automotive Art of Surinamese placed second in the 1600cc group much to their delight, they have promised to return in bigger numbers for future events.

We will post the names of all the drivers who took part a bit later on this webpage.

Heading to South Dakota, passing Buddy's Hotel	Waiting for the rain to stop and catching up on a bit of lunch	Corner one chief marshal Terrence Clarke		Syed Hassan
Part of the lineup	Team Fullworks 1 Rudolf Carew and co-drivers	Team Fullworks 2. Aaron Bethune, Shawn Seejatan & Naresh	Team Fullworks 3. Shivo Seebarran and co-drivers	Team Fullworks 4. Syed Hassan and co-drivers
Team Fullworks 5, Syairaz & Shahab Roshandin. Errol Tenpow provided technical support	Team Automotive Art of Suriname	Team Sanjay's Jewellery. Sanjay Persaud and Vishaul Sawh (Vishaul not in pic)	Team Jardine Racing. Drivers Ryan Jardine and co-driver	Team Miracle Optical. Drivers Pierre and Romeo Singh with team members
Team Trans Pacific/Ramchand Auto Body. Anand Ramchand and Adrian Fernandes	Kamal Seebaran and Raj trying in vain to get extra marshals			Mobile Patrol 1 driven by Bryan Max
		The very first lap, we pick up the action from turn 2	This 4AGE powered Carina leads the pack	1st lap
1st lap	1st lap	1st lap	1st lap	An amazing sight for race fanatics. 1st lap
Lap 2, Team Boodhoo now in the lead		A team Fullworks Corolla out-power the Honda S2000
		Out for the moment but restarted soon after		A few laps down
				Scenes from the Gooseneck
		Jason and Mark Vieira enjoying a light moment during the event	Scenes from turn 2
			Ryan Jardine DNF	Team Dynas joined the fun after a few laps
	Too fast for turn 1, Mobile Patrol 1 almost did not see him in the bushes			We're back in the Gooseneck
	Motor racing historian Avery Gomes on hand to enjoy the racing fun		Team Boodhoo waiting to make a driver change	Team Dynas DNF
Team Sanjay's in trouble	Chief engineer Sato Seebarran tries a bit of magic	DNF	Shot taken looking west  back to the clubhouse
Team member pulling out the car that went off in turn 1	The Team Motor Trend car of Enmore is badly damaged.	Team Ray's Motor Spares	Team Trans Pacific lost their windscreen. The Tercel parked on the side DNF
Team Sanjay's came back out but not for long. DNF	This guy drove the stuffing out of this Toyota	The Surinamese Carina and the Rays Motor Spares Glanza battled like this for many many laps		Team Automotive Art of Suriname was still up and running after 2 hours fifty minutes
It was a ding dong battle between these two Team Fullworks cars	This went on for over 20 laps	The Fullworks Nissan leads the Fullworks Corolla	This is another lap down and you can see they are both stuck to each other	The Toyota also lost his windscreen but that did not stop him
Team Tercel DNF	Team Ryan Boodhoo DNF	Memebrs of Team Fullworks. Fullworks sponsored 5 cars	Members of Team Fullworks	Aaron Bethune, Shawn Seejatan & Naresh winners of the unlimited class
The overall Champs, Adrian Fernandes and Anand Ramchand of Team Trans Pacific-Ramchands Auto Body	Team Miracle Optical DNF.	Team Rays Motor Spares. Kamal Seebarran, Vinu Sawh, a fan and Bunny Persaud	Members of Team Trans Pacific/Ramchands Auto Body	Heading back to GT, in the vicinity of the Providence Stadium