2020 INRC season ends with a bang at Utsav de Hampi

Bengaluru, 3 Feb 2021: The COVID19-hit 2020 season ends with a bang after Utsav de Hampi, in Bengaluru with the 45th K-1000. Even as the four-wheel contender for Indian National Rally Championship 2021 gets ready to host the mega event at Hampi from Feb 5 to 7 as part of Motorsports Festival with four major events, the rally season with a reduced four-round calendar will conclude a week later on Feb 14, the valentine’s day, near Bengaluru.

Including a successfully conducted MRF MoGrip two-wheeler Indian National Rally Championship (INRC2w) that showcased nine champions of the 2020 with the 2019 FIM Baja World Cupper Aishwarya Pissay, getting her fourth National 2w Rally title in her class for the fourth successive year, the Utsav de Hampi proved that motorsport can still be organised with great vigour and passion if one makes an effort. For Aishwarya, it is a great achievement indeed, to get her 7th National title, along with the three other Road Racing titles she had won before she jumped board to Rallying and then to more demanding Cross-Country rallying.

Then there is the defending champion Rajendra, also of TVS Racing and Asad Khan winning their National titles in their class but it is Samuel Sajan Jacob, also from the stables of TVS, who hogged the limelight winning the Overall honours. The other class champions are yet to be declared but the hosts Vijayanagar Academy of Motorsports get ready to host the contender Four-wheeler rally for INRC to provide that final push to the close of the season.

Coming back to INRC contender round, one has to see if the top guns will attend the rally as the title is already won by Gaurav Gill and Musa Sherif, and the expenses of bringing cars to Hampi may be a little dampener. But the mood and the festival atmosphere is hard to resist and many are already on their way as a prelude to the last round to be held near Bengaluru.