Joel Jackson

Having signed a one-year contract to race in the 2006 season of the Formula BMW USA series with the Gelles Racing Team, 18 year old Joel Jackson will start on the road to realizing his dream on May 19, when he tackles the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, in the USA. From then until September 3, the teenage karter will have a very busy schedule competing in 14 qualification rounds at 7 venues across the USA, Canada and Mexico. Gelles Racing is one of the top teams in Formula BMW and Champ Car Atlantic in the USA. The Formula BMW series is BMW’s entry level programme for Formula 1 drivers.

As we chatted about his plans for the future, Joel’s quiet manner and easy-going demeanor seemed to belie the historic significance of his latest accomplishment. From the Palisadoes track in Kingston where his karting skills were honed, the Ardenne High School graduate is poised to take his career where no other Jamaican has gone before....

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BY: Christopher Serju

We’ve had calls from Embassies and High Commissions to play games. We’ve had calls from police groups to play games. We’ve had calls from hotels. We have people calling from all over the place saying, ‘So what happen, how yu cyaan reach MY community yet. We not important to you too?’ We get people calling and saying, ‘Miss I’ve been buying IGL gas for the last five years and I want to know if I can get a game on the side’” Shelley Sterling, IGL’s marketing manager recalls with a hearty chuckle.

Of course the ‘game’ of which Sterling speaks is IGL’s ‘Curry Goat Cricket’, an IGL adaptation of a Jamaican tradition which many years ago was extremely popular in rural communities. Rival districts would arrange a cricket match which was preceded and followed by a range of entertainment activities.

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