Defending champion Jagan Kumar led a podium sweep for TVS Racing even as he resurrected his campaign with a grand double in the fourth and penultimate round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the MMRT track, here on Sunday.
Having won the first race in the premier Super Sport Indian (up to 165cc) class on Saturday, Jagan Kumar maintained his crackling form with another flawless ride to top the second outing on Sunday and narrowed the gap with leader Rajiv Sethu (Honda Ten10 Racing) to just one point. Sethu did no favours for his chances as he high-sided after exiting the short loop.
The 50 points that Jagan garnered this weekend, saw him jump two spots from fourth to second on the leaderboard, moving past teammate Harry Sylvester (99) and Honda Ten10 Racing’s Mathana Kumar (109) who too crashed, but managed to finish the race in sixth position.
The results (provisional): Super Sport Indian (up to 165cc): Race two (14 laps): 1. Jagan Kumar (TVS Racing) (16mins, 07.755secs); 2. K.Y. Ahamed (TVS Racing) (16:10.683); 3. Kannan Subramaniam (TVS Racing) (16:14.220).
Pro-stock (up to 165cc): Race two (14 laps): 1. Anish Shetty (Honda Ten10 Racing) (16:57.557); 2. Aravind Balakrishnan (Honda Ten10 Racing) (16:58.142); 3. Aravind Ganesh (Chennai) (17:19.539).
Super Sport Indian (300-400cc): Race two (nine laps): 1. Deepak Ravikumar (Moto-Rev) (10:20.439); 2. Antony Peter (Coimbatore) (10:26.416); 3. Amarnath Menon (Gusto Racing) (10:34.707).
Stock (up to 165cc) (Novice, nine laps): 1. Peddu Sriharsha (Sparks Racing) (11:21.635); 2. Sri Rahil Pillarishetty (Sparks Racing) (11:21.711); 3. Satyanarayana Raju (Sparks Racing) (11:22.109).
One-Make Championship: Honda CBR 250: Open: Race One (nine laps): 1. Hari Krishnan Rajagopal (10:40.123); 2. Rajiv Sethu (10:40.160); 3. Aravind Balakrishnan (10:40.831).
Race two (14 laps): 1. Hari Krishnan (16:31.069); 2. Sethu (16:31.136); 3. Amit Richard Topno (16:34.147).
CBR 150: Novice: Race two (nine laps): 1. A. Amala Jerald (11:26..244); 2. Senthil Kumar (11:26.274); 3. R. Aswin Kumar (11:26.768).
TVS Apache RTR 200: Open: Race two (nine laps): 1. S. Sivanesan (11:20.637); 2. Arun Muthukrishnan (11:23.938); 3. S. Anand Kumar (11:24.060).
Novice: Race two (nine laps): 1. M. Anup Kumar (11:26.901); 2. Peddu Sriharsha (11:26.977); 3. A. Shankar Guru (Chennai) (11:31.310).
