Chennai: It was double delight for Hyderabad’s Anindith Reddy as he extended his dominance in the MRF FF1600 class while Arjun Narendran did the same in the Indian Touring Cars (ITC) category in the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Racing Championship (INRC) at the MMRT track here on Sunday.
With the fifth and concluding round to be run on September 16 and 17, Anindith, who leads Chennai’s Sandeep Kumar by 29 points, is well placed in the championship, with the winner earning a ticket to the Mazda Road To Indy shootout in the USA later this year.
It was smooth sailing for Anindith in both races on Sunday as he put in a flawless performance to destroy the opposition as he more than made up for a disappointing outing on Saturday when he finished fifth after being forced to pit early in the race for repairs on the nose cone.
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Similarly, Narendran of Red Rooster Performance, with the two wins this weekend, narrowed the gap to just seven points after championship leader Deepak Paul Chinnappa (Race Concepts) of Bengaluru dropped crucial points with a non-finish in Saturday’s first race and third place finish in the next outing on Sunday.
Narendran won both races virtually unchallenged after the initial jostling for track positions.
Delhi’s Karminder Singh stamped his authority in the Volkswagen Ameo Cup by winning both the races on Sunday to enjoy a lead of 104 points going into the concluding round next month when the remaining three races will be run.
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The results (Provisional):
MRF FF1600, race two (15 laps): 1. Anindith Reddy (14: 57.509); 2. Sandeep Kumar (15: 01.399); 3. Chetan Korada (15:15.305). Race three (15 laps): 1. Anindith (14: 58.193); 2. Sandeep (14: 58.410); 3. Chetan (15:10.826).
ITC, race two (15 laps): 1. Arjun Narendran (16:52.608); 2. Ashish Ramaswamy (16:58.568); 3. Deepak Paul Chinnappa (17: 08.741).
Saloon Cars - Super Stock (race two, 12 laps): 1. R.P. Rajarajan (14:30.913); 2. Varun V. Anekar (14: 31.640); 3. B. Bala Vijay (14: 49.918). Race three (12 laps): 1. Varun (14:25.775); 2. Rajarajan (14:37.434); Bala Vijay (14:40.081).
Indian Junior Touring Cars (race two, 12 laps): 1. Mikhail Merchant (15:27.157); 2. E.K.P. Hisham (14:27.335+1 lap); 3. Kamlesh Parmer (14:28.859+1 lap). Race three (12 laps): 1. Merchant (15:20.098); 2. Hisham (14:17.583+1 lap); 3. A.S. Prabu (14:28.191+1 lap).
Esteem Cup (race two, 12 laps): 1. Narendran Sankaran (14: 19.391); 2. Sidharth Balakrishnan (14: 24.264); 3. Anant Pithawala (14:25.896). Race three (12 laps): 1. Raghul Rangasamy (14:15.558); 2. Pithawalla (14:22.634); 3. Narendran (14:29.254).
Volkswagen Ameo Cup (race two, 15 laps): 1. Karminder Singh (17:05.639); 2. Jeet Jhabakh (17:19.305); 3. Dhruv Mohite (17:20.487). Race three (15 laps): 1. Karminder (17:06.047); 2. Saurav Bandyopadhyay (17:08.962); 3. Mohite (17:15.446).