Scorching the monitor: Ghosh (co-driver Ashwin) at the SM Agro phases on day one..
| Photo Credit: S. Siva Saravanan
Amittrajit Ghosh (co-driver Ashwin Naik) had a minor energy glitch going into the last loop. However, the younger man saved his cool to emerge the day’s leader in the Rally of Coimbatore, the third spherical of the FMSCI Blueband Sports Indian National Rally Championship for 4 wheelers, right here on Saturday.
Three-time APRC champion Gaurav Gill (Aniruddha Rangnekar), set the tone at the begin profitable the first two phases with ease, however dropped out after two kilometres into the third stage.
Championship leader Aroor Arjun Rao (Satish Rajagopal) had a somewhat quiet first loop by which Karna Kadur (Nikhil Pai) completed on prime. It was just a few seconds that cut up the prime three going into the last loop. It turned out to be the most fun stage with Ghosh popping out trumps.
“I think we all had issues with the car. It’s a hard rally and the stages were tight and demanding. Also,I had some issue with the power in the first two stages. In fact, we were slower than even the INRC2 cars and lost a lot of a time there,” stated Ghosh.
However, the drivers can be cautious of the Kethanur terrain on Sunday.
The outcomes (provisional):
Overall: 1: Amittrajit Ghosh & Ashwin Naik 54:24.100; 2. Arjun Rao & Satish Rajagopal 54:43.300; 3. Philippos Matthai & P.V. Srinivas Murthy 54:51.900.
INRC2: 1. Philippos & Srinivas 54:51.900; 2. Bikku Babu & Milen George 55:34.600; 3. Fabid Ahmer & G. Sanath 55:35.000.
INRC3: 1. Jahaan Gill & Suraj Keshava 55:25.100; 2. Jason Saldanha & Thimmu Uddapanda 55:38.100; 3. Darious Shroff & Shahid Salman 56:06.600.
Gypsy class: 1. Samrat Yadav & Chandrasekar 57:22.600; 2. Darshan Nachappa & Abhinav Ganapathy 59:55.200; 3. Akarsh Sunder & Ravikumar Reddy 1:02:15.
INRC girls: 1. Pragati Gowda & Trisha Alonkar 57:26.200; 2. Anushriya Gulati & Sherwin Dalmeida 57:27.600; 3. Shivani Parmar & Arjun Dheerendra 57:58.700.