Comfortable win for Raghul

Arjun clinches a thriller in Indian Touring Cars Class

August 18, 2018 08:18 pm | Updated 08:18 pm IST - Chennai

Good show: Arjun Balu, who prevailed in a tight race.

Good show: Arjun Balu, who prevailed in a tight race.

Raghul Rangasamy converted his pole position into a comfortable win in the first race of the MRF F1600 class in the fourth round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Racing Championship at the MMRT here on Saturday.

Arjun Balu (Race Concepts) won a tight, thrilling race in the Indian Touring Cars Class, while his teammate Varun Anekar started ninth and finished first in the Super Stock category.

The Formula LGB 1300 double-header produced two different winners in Ashwin Datta (Momentum Motorsports) and Sohil Shah (M Sport).

Dhruv Mohite clinched his fourth win in six starts in the Volkswagen Ameo Cup race.

The results (provisional, 8 laps unless mentioned): MRF F1600: Race 1: 1. Raghul Rangasamy (Mamallapuram, Chennai) 13:36.906s; 2. Sandeep Kumar (Chennai) 13:39.058; 3. Nirmal Uma Shanker (Chennai) 13:43.654.

Formula LGB 1300: Race 1: 1. S. Ashwin Datta (Momentum Motorsports) 15:20.086; 2. Sohil Shah (M Sport) 15:21.981; 3. Deepak Ravikumar (DTS Racing) 15:29.673. Race 2: 1. Sohil 17:33.648; 2. A. Balaprasath (DTS Racing) 17:34.089; 3. Ashwin 17:34.455.

Indian Touring Cars: Race 1: 1. Arjun Balu (Race Concepts) 15:13.033; 2. Arjun Narendran (Arka Motorsport) 15:13.987; 3. Ashish Ramaswamy (Arka Motorsport) 15:27.015. Turbo: Race 1: 1. Karthik Tharani (Chennai) 15:23.854; 2. Rayomand Banajee (Mumbai) 15:38.143; 3. Ishan Dodhiwala (Hyderabad) 15:39.252.

Super Stock: Race 1: 1. Varun Anekar (Race Concepts) 16:14.596; 2. Deepak Ravikumar (Infinite Piston) 16:27.106; 3. Srinivas Teja (Performance Racing) 16:44.359.

Indian Junior Touring Cars: Race 1: 1. A.S. Prabhu (Arka Motorsport) 17:06.590; 2. Nikunj Vagh (Team N1) 17:18.579; 3. Chris D’souza (Unimek Racing) 17:29.153.

Esteem Cup: Race 1: 1. Raghul (Performance Racing) 16:51.582; 2. Vinod Subramaniam (Team N1) 17:01.644; 3. Biren Pithawalla (Team N1) 17:01.645.

Volkswagen Ameo Cup: Race 1: 1. Dhruv Mohite (Kolhapur) 15:38.719; 2. Saurav Bandyopadhyay (Mumbai) 15:43.499; 3. Jeet Jhabakh (Hyderabad) 15:43.879 .

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