The Bengaluru pair of Karna Kadur and co-driver Nikhil Pai (Arka Motorsports) overcame teething points to go the Overall standings on the conclusion of Leg-1 within the MRF forty fifth South India Rally, the primary spherical of the FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship 2022, which additionally noticed the early exit of seven-time National champion Gaurav Gill (Musa Sherif) as a consequence of a mechanical drawback.
On Saturday, going into the in a single day parc ferme, Kadur, winner of the Asia Cup spherical of the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship on the similar venue final month, led Mangaluru’s Dean Mascarenhas (co-driver Gangan Karumbaiah, Kodagu) by a mere 2.9 seconds.
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The two leaders have been adopted by Chettinad Sporting’s 2021 National champion Aditya Thakur (Virender Kashyap) from Himachal and Pallakkad’s Fabid Ahmer (Sanath G) within the provisional Overall classification. With 5 extra Stages to be run on Sunday, simply 17.6 seconds separated the highest 4 contenders, pointing to an exhilarating end on Sunday.
After Gill’s retirement within the day’s second Stage, it was primarily a four-way battle for high honours, involving Kadur, Mascarenhas, Thakur and Ahmer. As the day progressed on Saturday, Kadur and Mascarenhas stepped up the tempo to drag away from the others. Kadur gained three of the 5 Stages whereas Mascarenhas topped the opposite two.
“It was not the best of the runs as we had issues in the morning in SS-2 and we lost some time. We lost the boost about 10kms into the Stage and we had to drive conservatively. After the service break, we had to play catch up. We made some time on the front-runners and we are happy to take the lead at the end of the first leg,” stated Kadur.
For Gill, his run of unhealthy luck continued. (*1*) stated Gill who needed to take care of related points final season too.
Provisional classification (Leg-1):
Overall / INRC: 1. Karna Kadur / Nikhil Pai (each Bengaluru, Arka Motorsports) (54mins, 40.700secs); 2. Dean Mascarenhas (Mangaluru) / Gagan Karumbaiah (Kodagu) (54:43.600); 3. Aditya Thakur / Virender Kashyap (each Himachal, Chettinad Sporting) (54:53.400).
INRC-2: 1. Mascarenhas / Karumbaiah (54:43.600); 2. Thakur / Kashyap (54:53.400); 3. Fabid Ahmer / Sanath G (each Pallakkad) (54:58.300).
INRC-3: 1. Jahaan Singh Gill (Chandigarh) / Suraj Keshava Prasad (Bengaluru, SNAP Racing) (56:07.800); 2. Kuber Sharma / Kunal Kashyap (each Himachal) (56:57.800); 3. Daraius Neville Shroff (Delhi) / Arjun Dheerendra (Bengaluru, Slideways Industries) (57:05.300).
INRC-4: 1. Prakhyat Shirole / Supreet S (each Bengaluru) (59:32.700); 2. Yeshwanth Padala (Hyderabad) / Bharath SM (Bengaluru) (01Hr, 01:08.900); 3. Deepak Chandra / GM Manjunath (each Bengaluru) (01:02:11.000).
Junior INRC: 1. Jahaan Singh Gill / Suraj Keshava Prasad (56:07.800); 2. Shroff / Arjun Dheerendra (57:05.300); 3. Arnav Pratap Singh (Delhi) / Arjun SSB (Bengaluru, SNAP Racing) (57:29.500).
Fmsci Gypsy Cup: 1. Himamshu Arora (Delhi) / Vikram Thakur (Chandigarh) (01:01:49.300); 2. Sanjay Razdan (Srinagar) / Karan Aukta (Shimla) (01:02:42.900); 3. Darshan Nachappa (Bengaluru) / S Dinesh (Shivamogga, Ammyfield Rallying) (01:03:00.500).
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