Revving for action at Bushy Park

THOUSANDS of racing fans are expected to descend on Bushy Park this weekend with the top local and Caribbean drivers matching man and machines in the Barbados Auto Racing League’s Digicel/Williams Industries International Race Meet.Yesterday, hundreds of spectators took up every vantage point permitted as the top drivers tuned up their power machines and took test drives around the track.The fans were given a sneak preview of tomorrow’s action when one of the local favourites, Mark Maloney, and Guyanese Mark Vieira met on the course during their second run and what transpired did not look like a practice trial.The fans’ appetites have already been whetted and this weekend the rivalry of Vieira, Doug and Mark Maloney, Barry and Roger Mayers, championship leader David Summerbell and a host of other exciting drivers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana should provide much excitement at Bushy Park.