Mars Racing's Saran Vikram and Sarosh Hataria (Meco Racing) grabbed the honours in the Formula Rolon category of the Volkswagen-JK Tyre National racing championship at the Madras Motor Race Track near here on Sunday.
While Saran won the first race, Sarosh came back strongly to finish first in the next race to make the premium category wide open for racers to have a chance at the championship title.
After four rounds, Saran (33 points) leads the points table by just three points over veteran Chennai driver Sarosh, who is in second place with 29 points.
Vishnu Prasad (Amaron Pro Racing) also tallies 29 points in four rounds but Sarosh is placed second for his two wins in the earlier rounds.
Sailesh Bolisetti of Visakhapatnam was the cynosure of all eyes as he excelled in both Super Saloons and Volkswagen-Polo Cup events. Sailesh won both the races in the Super Saloons class and secured the chequered flag in the first race of the Polo Cup.
The results :
Formula Rolon (10 laps): Race 1 : 1. Saran Vikram 19:00:479, 2. Nikhil Kashyap 19:18:575, 3. Vishnu Prasad 19:23:072; Race 2 : 1. Sarosh Hataria 19:09:658, 2. Chittesh Mandody 19:14:287, 3. Vishnu Prasad 19:15:671.
Formula Swift (10 laps): Race 1 : 1. S. Narendran 20:16:238, 2. Ajay Kini 20:17:497, 3 .R. Deepak 20:24:193; Race 2 (6 laps) : 1. Ameya Walavalkar 13:07:748, 2. R.Deepak 13:17:720, 3. Ajay Kini 13:27:203.
Polo Cup (12 laps): Race 1 : 1. Sailesh Bolisetti 25:36:172, 2. Vikash Anand 25:35:536, 3. Parth Ghorpade 25:36:609; Race 2 : 1. Parth Ghorpade 25:13:862, 2. Mohd Fahad Kutty 25:18:214, 3. Imran Majid 25:26:826.
Super Saloons (9 laps): Race 1 : 1. Sailesh Bolisetti 18:33:249, 2. Raj Viruthan 18:30:864, 3. Siddarth Kishore 18:45:383; Race 2 (7 laps) : 1. Sailesh Bolisetti 15:03:557, 2. Raj Viruthan 15:10:440, 3. Mohd. Fahad Kutty 15:20:296.