Defending champion Jagan Kumar of TVS Racing put in a commanding performance to score a crucial win (Super Sport Indian, upto 165cc) in the third round of the MRF-MMSC FMSCI Indian National motorcycle racing championship at the MMRT track here on Saturday and moved up two spots to third on the leaderboard.
Jagan (62 points), though very relieved, had to fight hard for only his second win of the season that puts him behind the front-running Honda Ten10 riders leader Rajiv Sethu (90) and Mathana Kumar (66) in the championship stakes.
Jagan starting from pole position slipped to third due to a poor start as Rajiv and Mathana passed him on the very first lap. However, a red flag stoppage due to oil spill on the start/finish straight provided Jagan a second chance after Sethu’s bike bled speed and Mathana retired due to an electrical problem.
It set Jagan free and he was followed home by team-mate Harry Sylvester and Sethu.
The results (provisional):
Super Sport Indian (upto 165cc, four laps): 1. Jagan Kumar (8m, 06.210s); 2. Harry Sylvester (8:06.370); 3. Rajiv Sethu (8:12.951).
Super Sport Indian (300-400cc, six laps): 1. D. Dinesh Kumar (11:48.208); 2. Deepak Ravikumar (11:55.445); 3. Vivek Pillai (12:08.044). Pro-Stock (upto 165cc, four laps): 1. Aravind Balakrishnan (8:30.837); 2. Naresh Babu (8:32.463); 3. Aravind Ganesh (8:39.352).
Girls (Stock upto 165cc, five laps): 1. Aishwarya Pissay (11:18.287); 2. Shruthi Nagarajan (11:29.306); 3. Kalyani Potekar (11:37.258).
One-Make championship: Honda CBR 150 (Novice, five laps): 1. Satyanarayana Raju (11:08.098); 2. G. Balaji (11:22.842); 3. Senthil Kumar (11:23.098).
TVS Apache RTR200 (Open, six laps): 1. Kannan Karnan (13:16.480); 2. S. Sivanesan (13:16.578); 3. S. Yuvaraj (13:17.312).
Novice (six laps): 1. J. Romario (13:23.636); 2. M. Anup Kumar (13:23.803); 3. J. Shankar Guru (13:30.885).
Girls: Support races: Honda (five laps): 1. A. Ryhana Bee (11:26.214); 2. Kalyani Potekar (11:41.677); 3. Shruthi Nagarajan (11:41.767).
TVS (three laps): 1. Aishwarya Pissay (6:52.318); 2. Ann Jennifer (07:02.739); 3. Priyamvada Saradhi (7:15.431).
