Jamaican Tuner Magazine

Multiple Dexterity Driving champion Maurice Whittingham putting on a show

 Text by Dean Corrodus, Photos by Donovan Montaque

The Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club (JMMC) staged the first of ten dexterity events for the 2012 season at the ATL Bogue City Centre parking lot in Montego Bay on Saturday night, February 18. The night dexterity idea made a welcome return courtesy of ATL Automotive’s state of the art dealership facility at Bogue City Centre, representing industry leading brands Audi, VW (ATL Autohaus) and Honda (ATL Motors) and backed up by the prestigious Jaguar, Range Rover and Land Rover marques (ATL Britannia). The venue offered an attractive background for the exciting and entertaining wet tarmac format of this entry level of motorsports and saw huge cheers from the crowd in attendance when their favorite drivers displayed flamboyant skill and car control in maneuvering their vehicles around the cones that marked the course.

 Overall win

Maurice “Wurl Boss” Whittingham emerged with the fastest time of the night overall in winning the rear wheel drive with limited slip differential class in a time of 37.35 seconds in his Team mad Dem/Carz rehab Toyota Starlet, Whittingham is the defending dexterity champion and has won this class on numerous occasions. 2^nd place was Cleve “Cutta Hype” Ottey, the only person to have beaten Whittingham in 2011, Upcoming star, young Jamar “Schoolaz” Kinkaid, placed third with solid, entertaining performances in the Kinkaid Cellular Toyota Corolla Levin.

Young, talented Jordan Powell on his way to victory in the ATL Automotive VW Polo

The battle of the dealers

In the highly competitive front wheel drive class, Jordan Powell, driving the ATL Autohaus Volkswagen Polo for the first time, copped the top spot on the podium to reverberate the “ATL Unbeatable” marketing campaign, as 2^nd place was the highest that double 2011 class winner and multiple class champion Christopher “Teach” McFarlane would manage on the night in the Stewarts Auto Sales Mitsubishi ASX. 3^rd place was won by McFarlane’s team mate Courtney Wilson.

The front wheel drive with limited slip differential class was won by Ameer Johnson in the Team mad Dem/Carz rehab Toyota Corolla Levin with Tony Fu of Team Challenger racing 2^nd driving his Toyota Corolla GT.

4WD

Top circuit driver Douglas “Hollywood” Gore drove his  ATL Automotive Audi A4 coupe to victory in the four wheel drive class, with Team Challenger’s Richard Chan in 2^nd place in a Toyota Starlet, both cars  being at opposite ends of the size spectrum with the powerful and wide Audi getting the better of the nimble Toyota in the class.

In the 2 lap championship run for the top ten fastest competitors, Whittingham again stood on the top step of the podium with a time of 1.08.58, with Powell in 2^nd place in 1.10.49 and McFarlane 3^rd a whisker away in 1.10.97.

Whittingham with the spoils of victory

4×1 relay winner: Team Mad Dem: Maurice Whittingham, Christopher Addison, Christopher McFarlane, Ameer Johnson.