Lee and Prasad take home double gold from JKTRC at BIC

 A weekend full of fuel burning, tyre smoking and adrenaline pumping motorsports came to a close the conclusion of round 3 of the JK Tyre Racing Championship with 8 races and 6 different winners racing in 4 different classes of cars and bikes.

FB02

Day one on November, 8^th, the sole race of the FB02 class on the day was won by Akhil Rabindra, but on day two (November, 9th), Vishnu Prasad came home with gold in both races after flawless drives on both occasions thus bringing him back into title contention.

Vishnu suffered a jumpstart on day one, made up for his penalty on the second day after he overtook pole-sitter and Race 1 winner Akhil Rabindra as he fell behind midway through before fast-pacing Vishnu caught up with those ahead and pushed to the front.

In the third race of the FB02 category, Vishnu raced ahead of Rabindra and maintained distance to eventually win. Ananth Shanmugam eventually finished third.

Polo R Cup

Day 1 of the event saw two Polo R cup races where on both occasions Lee Keshav Gupta was crowned victorious.

Race 2 saw some drama from the Luxembourg International driver, Dylan Pereira who after a tussle with Angad Singh Matharoo was eventually disqualified from 1^st after the race was over. This left runner up driver Lee Keshav Gupta to take the top spot again as Angad Singh took the second and Karminder Pal Singh was eventually promoted to 3^rd place.

On Day two, Dylan Pereira came to the track and meant business. The guest driver got a great start and was amongst the top 3 racers from the beginning of the race. The turning point in the race was on lap 4 when two of the drivers collided at the final corner leaving Matharu Krishnamurthy with a puncture on the left front tyre, body damage and what seemed like a broken suspension or steering thus ending his race. With the stationary car on the track, the safety car was summoned which closed in the gap between the cars. This played right into the hands of Dylan who by lap 7 had already taken the lead and eventually the victory as well.

Dylan Pereira commented on has victory by saying that India was an amazing experience and is happy to have raced against such talented drivers. After gauged the level of competition yesterday, he was determined to give his best today. Aiming to be amongst top 3 and then make use of every possible opportunity, with a golden chance on the 7th lap to overtake Karthik and take the lead. Dylan concluded; “I am very happy with my performance today and I take back home a lot of learning.”

Unfortunately the winner of the previous two Polo R Cup events Lee Keshav Gupta and Angad Singh Matharoo, the two top performers of the season, retired in the initial stages of the competition.

A driver that showed the most amounts of improvement over the weekend was the 22 year old Utsav Shav driving the Polo R Cup car No.5 for Karcher. Shah finish 14^th in the first race and then 12^th in the second, then in the third race, Shah found himself in 8^th place to finish in the top 10.

Formula LGB4

De-boarding his BMW FB02 racecar and strapping himself into his No. 66 Meco Racing Formula LGB4 race car, Vishnu seems most likely to win as he started from pole. But unfortunately,  Diljith TS from Dark Don Racing pipped him to the chequered flag. As Vishnu finished 0.329 seconds behind in 2^nd and  Raghul Rangaswamy finished third.

Diljith’s second victory in three races now gives him a good cushion to push for the championship title during the final round later this year.

Superbikes Cup

Home boy Kulwant Singh Monty finished first in the 1000cc Superbikes Cup race followed by Gurvinder Singh in second and Bhupinder Singh third.

At the event in Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida, spectators who filled the Grand Stands also had the privilege to witness a stunt show performed by experienced drivers in Polo R Cup TSI cars who laid quite a lot of tyre marks on the track and burnt many of tyres as well. Some were even lucky enough to get a hot lap taxi ride in the Polo R cup cars driven by professional drivers.

The final Round of the JK Tyre Racing championship is to be held from December 12 to 14, 2014.