Double for Rajini in racing championship

IANS

Chennai - S Krishnan Rajini of Team Moto-Rev India yet again showed why he is the best racing rider in the country with a double on two different bikes in the fourth round of the MMSC-Sidvin FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship here Saturday.

Veteran Rajini opened his weekend campaign with a fine win in the Honda CBR 250R (Open) class, holding off young Sarath Kumar of MP Ten10 Racing with just fractions separating the two who finished nearly four seconds clear of M. Gautham.

Later, Rajini, astride his superbike, outclassed the Group A field by finishing some 12 seconds ahead of Preethi Racing’s Deepak Ravikumar while Gautham was a distant third.

The Group B (165cc Open) race saw Jagan Kumar (TVS Racing) winning from Shyam Shankar (Moto-Rev India) by a huge margin in a field that had six starters but just four finishers.

Sumit Lucas Toppo (Performance Racing) scored a good win in the Group C 165cc (Open) race, sparing nearly five seconds to Shyam Shankar (Moto-Rev India) while Dinesh Kumar came in third.

The results:

National Championship:

Group A (Superbikes, 600cc) 8 laps: Krishnan Rajini (Moto-Rev India) 1 (14mins, 17.127secs); Deepak Ravikumar (Preethi Racing) 2 (14:29.530); M Gautham 3 (14:42.755).

Group B (165cc, Open) 6 laps: Jagan Kumar (TVS Racing) 1 (11:46.215); Shyam Shankar (Moto-Rev India) 2 (12:03.868); Sudhakar Kesavan 3 (12:26.799).

Group C (165cc, Open) 6 laps: Sumit Lucas Toppo (Performance Racing) 1 (12:34.083); Shyam Shankar (Moto-Rev India) 2 (12:39.513); Dinesh Kumar 3 (12:43.475).

Group D (130cc, Novice) 6 laps: Abdul Wahab (TVS Racing) 1 (14:27.226); Kamlesh Thakur (Sparks Racing) 2 (14:27.518); KY Ahmed 3 (14:32.875).

One-Make Championship:

Yamaha – YZF R15 (Novice) 6 laps: R Ramesh Kumar 1 (07:55.101); Md Intekhab Alam 2 (07:55.513); Akash C (07:56.589).

Honda – CBR 250R (Open) 6 laps: Krishnan Rajini (Moto-Rev India) 1 (12:22.453); Sarath Kumar (MP Ten10 Racing) 2 (12:22.625); M Gautham 3 (12:26.459).

CB Twister (Novice) 6 laps: Md Intekhab Alam 1 (08:52.269); Mekha Vidhuraj 2 (08:52.953); Mithun Kumar 3 (08:59.352).

TVS – Apache RTR 180 (Novice) 6 laps: Abdul Wahab 1 (08:36.007); Md Intekhab Alam 2 (08:38.301); Rahul G Rathod 3 (0:08:41.348). Open (6 laps): Vivek Mani 1 (14:02.093); P Ananth Raj 2 (14:02.094); Rajesh Rathina Kumar 3 (14:02.433).

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