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Another win for Naren Kumar

BANGALORE: Naren Kumar of Red Rooster Racing, along with veteran navigator Ram Kumar, maintained his winning streak in the Speed Indian National Rally Championship (INRC) with a second successive victory (after Coimbatore) at the Rally of Rajasthan which concluded at Jodhpur on Sunday.

Driving his Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia with controlled aggression in the 2000CC N+ category, Naren kept his cool in the Super Special Stages of the rally, the third in INRC Circuit..

Naren also overtook former champion and Red Rooster teammate Vikram Mathias as the overall leader. Naren, who got 10 points for this win, now has 27 points to Vikram's 24.

Though Red Rooster's Amittrajit Ghosh (Ashwin Naik) finished second, it was Lohit Urs and Srikanth Gowda of Team MRF who scorched the tracks at the Chamia Polo ground to set the fastest time in the 1.5 km Super Special Stage to clock 1 min, 53.2 seconds, a fraction of a second faster than second placed Ghosh.

The Bangalore duo of Rahul Kantharaj and Vivek Bhatt pipped arch rivals Shailendar Hegde and Sheeraz in the SSS to take the honours in the 1600cc class. The Kerala pair of Dr. Bikku Babu and Bonnie Thomas won the 1400cc class.

Provisional classifications:

Group 2000cc N+: 1. Naren Kumar (Ram Kumar, Red Rooster Racing) 35:50.9, 2. Amittrajit Ghosh (Ashwin Naik, Red Rooster, 36:36.8), 3. Lohit Urs (Srikanth Gowda, Team MRF) 37:12.9.

2000cc N: 1. Girijashankar Joshy (Chandramouli M, Ovion Racing) 40:10.9, 2. Sujay Suresh (Bharath SM) 41:23.1, 3. Sirish Chandran (Nikhil Pai, Team Overdrive) 42:05.1.

1600cc N: 1. Rahul Kantharaj (Vivek Bhatt, Pvt.) 42:56.1, 2. Shailendar Hegde (Sheraz Ahmed, Pvt. 43:30.6), 3. Vishal GA (Robinson, Pvt.) 48:04.6.

1400cc N: 1. Dr. Bikku Babu (Bonnie Thomas, Pvt.) 41:49.0, 2. Byram Godrej (Anjay Kapadia, Pvt.) 47:54.0, 3.Sanjay Sikand (Koka Rahul Rao) 49:33.4.

Rally Star Cup (RSC): 1. M.R. Venkatapathy (Santosh Kumar S) 44:52.0, 2. Harikesav N (Ashvin Nadig, Pvt.) 45:10.8, 3. Kaushik H. Shinde (Ninand A. Mirajgaonkar, Pvt.) 47:01.0.

Gypsy: 1. Maj Amarinder S. Brar (Himanshu Pareek, Pvt.–Army Adventure Wing) 47:16.6, 2. Harpreet Singh Sidhu (Sanjay B. Gokhale, AA Wing) 48:16.5, 3. Sameer Pandey (Honey Narula, Pvt.) 48:32.5 .

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