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NEW DELHI: The Airtel One India Challenge car rally finished here in the capital on Saturday afternoon without the winners being announced. The winner of the grand prize of Rs. 30 lakh, the other positional winners and the zonal winners will have to wait for at least a week to know the results. A total lack of communication between the organisers of the rally, the officials involved in the conduct of the event and the participants resulted in a major commotion at the venue of the prize distribution ceremony here. Consequently, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Sunil Dutt, actress Mahima Chaudhary and others who were on way to attend the function at the National Stadium were advised to stay away. The President of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI), Vicky Chandhok, blamed the delay in announcing the results to `software failure'. The participants, however, were not convinced wanting the results be put out immediately. As both the organisers and the FMSCI, which provided the officials, stewards and technical backup for the rally, groped with the emerging situation the participants grew restless. There were allegations of having gone ahead with the rally even after the software having failed on the first day (May 9) to a possible rigging of the results. Mr. Chandhok, however, said that though the software had failed to generate the results, the data was all there in the system. "It will take time to collate the data for each and every participant as the system was unable to cope with the huge amount of information," Mr. Chandhok said. "Those who provided us with the software, Banari Systems, have said that it will take minimum of five days to generate the entire results," Mr. Chandhok said.
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