National racing | Final round:Tharani, Chatterjee share spoils on Day 1
New Delhi: Chennai’s Karthik Tharani and Mumbai’s Nayan Chatterjee won a race apiece on Day One of the season finale of the 21st JK Tyre FMSCI National Racing Championship in Greater Noida on Saturday.
The other stalwarts from Chennai, Vishnu Prasad in the LGB 4 and Joseph Mathew in the Suzuki Gixxer Cup, enjoyed a mixed day but still managed to hang on their leads at the Buddh International Circuit.
Vishnu won one race and finished fourth in the second to amass 76 points, to be six points clear of the field. Joseph, on the other hand, lost the first race of his season, but was still comfortably placed on 60 points.
The International Asia Cup of Road Race that was run in tandem with the Suzuki Gixxer Cup saw India A’s Karthik Mateti making his mark, winning the race ahead of his Asian counterparts. Sri Lanka’s Hansika Abeysinghe claimed the second place while Australia’s Max Stauffer took the third.
Karthik began the weekend on a positive note, grabbing the pole position in the Euro JK on Friday evening. He made the most of his early advantage to win Race 1 in 20:36.010 gruelling minutes. Nayan, who started from P3, put up an aggressive run, even recording the fastest lap time of 2:02:671 in the ninth. He attacked Karthik but just couldn’t find a way past him.
RESULTS (Day One)
Euro JK 2018 Race 1: 1. Karthik Tharani, 2. Nayan Chatterjee, 3. Brayan Perera. Race 2: 1. Nayan Chatterjee, 2. Arya Singh, 3. Karthik Tharani.
LGB4 Race 1: 1. Vishnu Prasad, 2. Raghul Rangasamy, 3. Sohil Shah. Race 2: 1. Diljith TS, 2. Rohit Khanna; 3. Sandeep Kumar.
ACRR: 1. Karthik Mateti; 2. Hansika Abeysinghe; 3. Max Stauffer. Gixxer Cup: 1. Vidhan Dubey; 2. Anthony Lalawmpuia; 3. Clinton Cordeiro. JK Superbikes Cup 1000cc: 1. Gurvinder Singh; 2. Dilip Rogger; 3. Deepak Ravi Kumar. JK Superbikes Cup 600cc: 1. Vijay Singh; 2. Kulwant Singh; 3. Kamran Dubash.
