Sahil Khanna and Harish KN move up to Overall 2nd
After Stewards penalise Maninder Singh Prince
Coimbatore, February 27: The Stewards of the Rally of Coimbatore, the first round of the FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship 2021 with MRF T yres as Associate Sponsor, disqualified the crew of Maninder Singh Prince (Delhi) and co-driver Vinay Padmashali (Bengaluru) for an infringement and following a post-event complaint reported by the chief scrutineer, here on Sunday.
Accordingly, the results were revised as below with the tandem of Sahil Khanna (Gurugram) and co-driver KN Harish (Bengaluru) being moved up a slot to third Overall and second in INRC-2 category.
The infringement was with regard to removal of his car from parc ferme when it was closed and therefore not being present for the post-event scrutiny. The Stewards summoned Prince for a hearing before disqualifying him. Provisionally, Prince had finished third in Overall classification and second in the INRC-3 category.The revised final results:
Overall / INRC: 1. Aditya Thakur / Virender Kashyap (both Himachal) (02Hrs, 03mins, 29.5secs); 2. Fabid Ahmer / G Sanath (both Palakkad) (02:04:29.2); 3. Sahil Khanna (Gurugram) / KN Harish (Bengaluru) (02:05:03.4).
INRC-2: 1. Fabid Ahmer / G Sanath (both Palakkad) (02:04:29.2); 2. Sahil Khanna (Gurugram) / Harish KN (Bengaluru) (02:05:03.4); 3. Aroor Vikram Rao / AG Somayya (both Mangaluru) (02:06:25.7);
INRC-3: 1. Aditya Thakur / Virender Kashyap (both Himachal) (02:03:29.5); 2. Syed Salman Ahmed (Mysuru) / Rishab BK (Mangaluru) (02:06:08.6); 3. Byram Godrej (Pune) / Varun Satyanaranaya (Bengaluru) (02:06:15.6).
INRC-4: 1. Mujeeb Rehman (Kasargod) / Ravindra Kumar (Bengaluru) (02:12:18.3); 2. Deepak Chandra / Kenith Harsha (both Bengaluru) (02:24:39.6); 3. P Ananth Kumar / GM Manjunath (both Bengaluru) (02:29:18.0).
Junior INRC (only 2 finishers): 1. Raghuram Saminathan (Coimbatore) / Bharath Sargur (Bengaluru) (02:17:16.5); 2. Shivani Pruthvi (Davangere) / Deeksha Balakrishna (Bengaluru) (02:22:45.2).
FMSCI Gypsy Challenge: 1. Rupender Sheoran (Gurugram) / Mohit Malik (Faridabad) (02:13:46.0); 2. Sanjay Agarwal / Smitha Prasad (both Bengaluru) (02:15:17.7); 3. Mettuchetty Venkatapathy / S Santosh Kumar (both Coimbatore) (02:17:15.4).
