CAYMAN?ISLANDS’ drivers Andy Bodden and Junior Hydes will face the starter in next weekend’s Digicel Williams Seaboard Marine International Race Meet at Bushy Park.
The event scheduled to take place on September 1 and 2 has attracted some of the best regional drivers currently in competition.
Bodden and Hydes, currently fourth and fifth respectively in the Caribbean Motoring Racing Championship (CMRC) standings, will be the first Cayman Islands drivers to compete at the St Philip racing facility.
They are also the only drivers, other than the Jamaican to have finished all three races at round one of the international race meet at Dover this year.
Bodden, who has been racing since 1994, will be at the wheel of the AMB Construction/A-One Equipment Rentals/
A.L.Thompsons/Rainbow Realty/Amsoil/Hydes & Sons/Tony’s Toys/
Paul A Bodden Heavy Equipment Service Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII in which he finished fourth twice, then sixth, in the May event in Jamaica.
He also brings some CMRC experience as he has raced in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana in 1998.
Hydes, who like Bodden has been racing in Jamaica in recent years since their home race track was closed a decade ago, started racing on the dirt in the late 1980s.
He switched to drag racing when the track in the Cayman Islands was closed, returned to circuit racing at Dover in the 1990s,
and shipped his Hydes and Sons/Walkers Road Texaco/Paul A. Bodden Heavy Equipment/
Amsoil Mitsubishi Lancer Evo III to Jamaica four years ago.
In May, he finished sixth in the first race at Dover, then fifth in the day’s remaining encounters.
