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Fasten your seatbelts again

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A chance to zoom towards a racing career starts with Amaron Karting Challenge

The event will commence on August 23
Grand Finale in Bangalore on January 11

Bangalore: Starting August 23, India’s seven-city karting challenge for schoolchildren will kick off in Chennai, featuring EVO AE 1 karts with the latest version of Subaru 4 stroke engines.

The Amaron Karting Challenge Season Two’s theme urges karting enthusiasts to find their calling in racing.

Expected to attract over 2,000 amateur karters to the tracks over seven weekends right up to December, it will end in the Grand Finale in Bangalore on January 11, 2009.

The theme, brand colours and the kart for the Amaron Karting Challenge Season Two were unveiled at the launch event on Sunday in Chennai by Jayadev Galla, Managing Director, Amar Raja Batteries Limited and Amaron Brand ambassadors Narain Kartikeyan, Armaan Ebrahim and Aditya Patel.

“The aspirant could just sign up to race and compete. It offers a clear way ahead - from potential to Pro by developing all-round skills and personality," said Jayadev Galla, Managing Director, Amara Raja Batteries Limited.

More than 2,000 teenage hopefuls are expected to race to the finish line at the Grand Finale, and perhaps, a shot at an international racing career. The top three winners of Amaron Karting Challenge 2008 will receive scholarships worth Rs. 10 lakh.

With this challenge, participants have the opportunity of being part of a motor sports team and meeting racing champions as well as understanding what a racing career might entail.

Amaron Karting Challenge 2008 requires children to be aged between 12 and 16 with a valid school identity card. Only those students who have not been on the podium in any of the Karting championship in the past three years are eligible for the challenge.

They will undergo practice sessions prior to the event that will be scheduled on the Friday of the race weekend. The winner of the Grand Finale will earn a full scholarship in the Amaron Karting Scholarship team, which takes part in the Indian Rotax Championship and other karting championships in India.

The scholarship also includes five training programmes with Meco Motor Sports in between the races. The second placed winner will get a 75 per cent scholarship and the third winner will get a 50 per cent scholarship to the training programme.

Registration forms can be had from www.amaron.in

Entries for the Chennai Challenge will end on August 19.

The first 250 entries in each city will be chosen to participate in the challenge.

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