BKC Hold ‘One Last Lap’ For Duke Soares
[Written by Stephen Wright]
The Bermuda Karting Club paid tribute to their founder Maynard “Duke” Soares at the end of race day at the Rubis Southside Raceway on Sunday.
Soares, who formed the BKC in 1976, died recently. He was aged 79.
During the “One Last Lap”, one of Soares’s sons and a nephew performed a lap of the Southside circuit.
A post on the BKC Instagram account read: “‘Duke’ Soares is a legend in the BKC world, and it was an honour to have him as our founding member, president and Hall of Fame inductee. Rest in peace, Duke!”
Among Soares’s career highlights were racing at some of the most iconic circuits in the world, such as Brands Hatch and Snetterton in England, the Nürburgring in Germany and the Sebring International Raceway and the Daytona International Speedway in the United States.
He was among the karting icons inducted into the inaugural Bermuda Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2019.
