Jagan Kumar
of Team TVS Racing came back strongly to win the second race of the premium
Super Sport Indian 165cc category as the third round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI
Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship concluded at the MMRT near Chennai
on September 4, 2016.
Sarath Kumar
of Honda Ten10 Racing finished second while R Deepak of RACR came third. Jagan,
who had crashed in the first race on Saturday, continues to lead the
championship table with 108 points.
In the Pro
Stock 165cc category, Rajiv Sethu of Honda Ten10 Racing won Race 2 while Prabhu
Arunagiri came second. Hari Krishnan R was third which helped him to maintain
his lead.
The Stock
165cc class race saw Joseph Mathew of Sparks Racing clinching a fine win after
taking the lead in the very first lap as he pushed championship leader Antony
Peter to second place.
Later, Soorya
too overtook Peter, but the latter gained back his place and was running second
behind Mathew for three laps. However, in the last lap Anish Damodara Shetty of
United TechTorque Racing unleashed a sprint to take second place. He zoomed
from P5 to P2 and edged out Peter to third place at the flag.
Ami Van
Poederooijen won a double in the 300cc to 400cc group of the Super Sport Indian
class while Yashas RL of Bengaluru won both the races in the Apache RTR 200
Novice class.
Mathana Kumar
of Honda Ten10 Racing also won a double in the Honda CBR 250 Open class while
Joseph Mathew who had won the Stock 165cc race in the morning also clinched the
Suzuki Gixxer Cup (Novice) race in the evening.
The results
(Provisional, all six laps unless mentioned):
National
Championship – Super Sport Indian 165cc (Race 2, 6 laps): Jagan Kumar (TVS
Racing) (12mins, 06.640secs); 2. Sarath Kumar (Honda Ten10 Racing) (12:08.308);
Deepak Ravikumar (RACR) (12:10.166).
Super Sport
Indian 300-400cc (Race 2, 6 laps): 1. Ami van Poederooijen (Rockstar Racing)
(12:00.133); 2. Abhishek Vasudev (Rockstar Racing) (12:05.972); 3. Ananth Raj P
(Pro Lap Racing) (12:06.731).
Pro-Stock
165cc (Race 2, 6 laps): 1. Rajiv Sethu (Honda Ten10 Racing) (12:30.730); 2.
Prabhu A (RACR) (12:38.378); 3. Hari Krishnan (Honda Ten10 Racing) (12:38.486).
Stock 165cc
(Race 2, 6 laps): 1. Joseph Mathew (Sparks Racing) (13:15.875); 2. Anish Shetty
(United Tech Torque) (13:16.507); 3. Antony Peter (Performance Racing)
(13:17.602).
One-Make
Championship – Honda-MMSC CBR 250 Open (Race 2, 6 laps): 1. Mathana Kumar
(Honda Ten10 Racing) (12:23.810); 2. Hari Krishnan (Honda Ten10 Racing)
(12:24.052); 3. Rajiv Sethu (Honda Ten10 Racing) (12:33.133). CBR 150 Novice
(Race 2, 4 laps): 1. Anish Shetty (Hubballi) (08:53.364); 2. Soorya PM
(Chennai) (08:53.692); 3. Piyush Ranjan (Patna) (08:56.269).
TVS-MMSC
Apache RTR 200 – Open (Race 2, 6 laps): 1. Kannan Karnan (Chennai) (13:19.835);
2. Vivek Pillai (Chennai) (13:33.715); 3. T Ramakrishnan (Tirunelveli)
(13:34.413). Novice (Race 2, 4 laps): 1. Yashas RL (Bengaluru) (08:49.976);
2.Yuvaraj S (Chennai) (09:03.026); 3. Kamran Alam (Patna) (09:03.289).
Suzuki Gixxer
Cup – Open (Race 2): 1. Meka Vidhuraj (Andhra)
(13:32.811); 2. Vivian Gladwin David (Kanpur) (13:32.826); 3. Rajanikanth B
(Chennai) (13:32.993). Novice (Race 3, 4 laps): 1. Joseph Mathew (Chennai)
(08:59.288); 2. Antony Peter (Coimbatore) (09:00.965); 3. Amarnath Rajan (Chennai)
(09:12.665). Rookie Cup: 1. Sachin Choudhary (Ahmedabad) (09:01.111); 2. AS
Alexander (Chennai) (09:22.302); S. Varoon (Chennai) (09:24.414).
Support Races
– Superbikes 1000cc (Race 2, 6 laps): 1. Deepak Ravikumar (Chennai)
(11:28.646); 2. Naresh Babu J (Chennai) (11:42.905); 117); 3. Rizwan Khan
(Mysuru) (11:45.710). 600cc: 1.Siddhanth Koundinya (Bengaluru) (11:42.612);
2.Devaraj Durairaj (Chennai) (12:19.440); 3.A Vijaya Balaji (Chennai)
(12:25.409).