Coimbatore : With the young guns at the forefront of the Volkswagen Motorsport making a strong statement in the premium ITC category, the second round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2019 was held at the Kari Motor Speedway here on Friday, which was reserved for free practice sessions.
Coimbatore : With the young guns at the forefront of the Volkswagen Motorsport making a strong statement in the premium ITC category, the second round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2019 was held at the Kari Motor Speedway here on Friday, which was reserved for free practice sessions.
If practice timings are definite indicators, then the competition in the Indian Touring Cars (ITC) promises to be a hot close trail with Karthik Tharani (01:08.672), Dhruv Shivaji Mohite (01:08.989) and Ishaan Dodhiwala (01:09.145), all representing the Volkswagen factory team, clocked the top three fastest timings.
Coimbatore’s septuagenarian D Vidyaprakash (Prime Racing) topped FP2 in 01:10.700 with most other competitors opting to sit out. Meanwhile, Salem’s Rupesh Siva Kumar (Momentum Motorsports) emerged quickest in the Formula LGB 1300 class that is packed with young aspirants racing at 01:09.451 in FP2, closely followed by Bengaluru’s Sohil Shah (M Sport) whose best was a 01:09.546. Sohil had topped FP1 ahead of Rupesh who however was quicker in the next outing.
Mumbai racer, Saurav Bandyopadhyay was the fastest in the Volkswagen Ameo Class, clocking a best of 01:09.606 which he did in FP1 while Jeet Jhabakh (Hyderabad) was the second quickest in 01:09.776. The FP2 session witnessed a slightly slower pace with Jhabakh (01:10.098) topping the timesheets followed by Pune’s Prateek Sonawane (01:10.270) and Bandyopadhyay (01:10.379).
In the Super Stock category, Bengaluru’s Rithvik Thomas (Race Concepts) posted the quickest time of 01:14.231, ahead of team-mate Prateek Benya (01:14.744) and Chennai’s RP Rajarajan (01:15.091) of Performance Racing.
Qualifying races are scheduled on Saturday and final races will be held on Sunday. The frst round of this Championship was held in Chennai during February, this year.
If practice timings are definite indicators, then the competition in the Indian Touring Cars (ITC) promises to be a hot close trail with Karthik Tharani (01:08.672), Dhruv Shivaji Mohite (01:08.989) and Ishaan Dodhiwala (01:09.145), all representing the Volkswagen factory team, clocked the top three fastest timings.
Coimbatore’s septuagenarian D Vidyaprakash (Prime Racing) topped FP2 in 01:10.700 with most other competitors opting to sit out. Meanwhile, Salem’s Rupesh Siva Kumar (Momentum Motorsports) emerged quickest in the Formula LGB 1300 class that is packed with young aspirants racing at 01:09.451 in FP2, closely followed by Bengaluru’s Sohil Shah (M Sport) whose best was a 01:09.546. Sohil had topped FP1 ahead of Rupesh who however was quicker in the next outing.
Mumbai racer, Saurav Bandyopadhyay was the fastest in the Volkswagen Ameo Class, clocking a best of 01:09.606 which he did in FP1 while Jeet Jhabakh (Hyderabad) was the second quickest in 01:09.776. The FP2 session witnessed a slightly slower pace with Jhabakh (01:10.098) topping the timesheets followed by Pune’s Prateek Sonawane (01:10.270) and Bandyopadhyay (01:10.379).
In the Super Stock category, Bengaluru’s Rithvik Thomas (Race Concepts) posted the quickest time of 01:14.231, ahead of team-mate Prateek Benya (01:14.744) and Chennai’s RP Rajarajan (01:15.091) of Performance Racing.
Qualifying races are scheduled on Saturday and final races will be held on Sunday. The frst round of this Championship was held in Chennai during February, this year.