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Arjun, Dilip scorch the track

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Dilip Roggers, winner of the super bikes class.

Coimbatore: The track was tight and twisty, but Arjun Balu of Coimbatore and Dilip Roggers of Chennai showed excellent control of the machines to take opening day’s honours in the MRF International Challenge at the Kari Motor Speedway in Chettipalayam on Saturday.

The results: Cars: Indian Super 2000: Lohit Urs (Team MRF, Mitsubishi Cedia) 13:32.111 (best lap 1:19.301); Nawaz Sandhu (Team MRF, Mitsubishi Cedia) 13:45.720 (1:20.084). Indian Super 1600: Arjun Balu (Team MRF, For d Fiesta) 13:09.659 (1:21.242); Gaurav Gill (Team MRF, Ford Fiesta) 13:19.622 (1:17.306); Ashwin Sundar (Team MRF, Baleno) 13:48.405 (1:21.237); Prithveen Rajan (Team MRF, Baleno) 13:55.156 (1:21.941). Indian Super 1400: B. Vijayakumar 13:56.096 (1:21.242); G.S. Joshy 14:08.326 (1:22.925); Amitrajit Ghosh 14:16.420 (1:23.173). Group N 1400cc: Amitrajit Ghosh 14:07.729 (best lap 1:22.944); G.S. Joshy 14:29.554 (1:25.136); S. Sujay 15:03.091 (1:28.052). Star Cup: Mazdayar Vatcha 15:50.220 (1:26.736); Deepak Paul Chinappa 14:50.296 (1:26.671); Chetan Shivram 14:51.251 (1:27.596). Ladies 1400cc: Nawaz Sandhu 7:48.913 (1:31.449); Bhuwaneshwari S 8:19.33 (1:37.094); Renuka Kripalani 8:20.804 (1:36.032). Bikes: Super bikes: Dilip Roggers 6:04.557 (1:10.941); Rohit Giri 6:25.339 (1:15.370); Arjun Gowda 7:15.246 (1:24.070); Javed 7:21.063 (1:24.858); Sanjay Joseph 7: 23.114 (1:25.729). RD 350: Chri stopher J 7:02.090 (1:22.813); Adrian S J 7:11.933 (1:23.311); Harish Shivram 7:35.911 (1:28.097); George Augustine 7:54.499 (1:32.325); Manu Vasu Devan 7: 59.573 (1:33.409). Indian 4 stroke 250cc: Deepak Ravikumar 6:36.457 (1:17.305); Rajani P 6:40.779 (1:18.864); Vinoth Kannan 6:41.957 (1:18.907). Indian 4 stroke 160cc: K. Rajani 6:32.531 (1:16.873); P. Karthik P 6:49.467 (1:20.310); Harry Sylvester 6:59.898 (1:22.438). Indian 2 stroke: M. Sudha kar 7:14.090 (1:24.144); C. Mukesh 7:14.858 (1:24.353); V.P. Murugan 7:31.501 (1:28.738).