Ashad Pasha becomes 9-time National Champion in Autocross; Pallavi Yadav clinches maiden title

Chennai, January 12: Defending champion Ashad Pasha clocked the fastest time of the finals and also won a triple crown which made him a nine-time National champion in the Fmsci Indian National Autocross Championships. The 2024 editiion, organized by Madras Motor Sports Club concluded at the Madras International Circuit, here on Sunday.

Pasha, the 31-year-old Chikkamagaluru driver, who is based in Muscat, added three more National titles to his kitty. Ashad Pasha clocked 4min 05.41sec in the premier INAC1 Open Class C finals and later clinched the Class B titles. However, his win in Class C though is awaiting ratification following a protest. He won three titles in 2023 and three in 2022.

In INAC3 stock classes, Amey Desai (Mapusa, Goa), and Kushal Chaudhari (Kolkata) won two titles each. While Desai bagged National titles in the Class A and Class C, Chadhari took Class B and Class E honours.

Pallavi Shamrao Yadav, 43, from Kolhapur, an oil and gas engineer on crude oil drilling rig sites, she bagged her maiden National title winning the Ladies class. Last year, she qualified from the West Zone at Goa but could not attend the finals. She is supported by Vamcy Merla of VM Sports Foundation, A & A Motorsports of wife-and-husband pair Aneeshnath and Amitha Aneesh, who won the Classic title in INRC2024, while the hardworking team at Sprint Motorsports, tuned her car and pushed her to the limits.

Raunak Jana won INAC2 Class E while Nameer Pasha clinched the Amateur Class title. Sravan Kumar Kuttoor of Hyderabad claimed the 4WD Open crown

Caption: Pallavi Yadav’s file photo

The results (Provisional – best laps):

INAC1 Open Class B: 1. Kiran Reddy (Bengaluru) (04mins, 17.28sec).

INAC1 Open Class C: 1. Ashad Pasha (Chikkamagaluru) (04:05.41); 2. Amandeep Singh (Delhi) (04:19.83); 3. Ashish Gupta (Chennai) (05:01.35).

INAC2 Class B: 1. Ashad Pasha (04:08.93).

INAC2 Class C: 1. Ashad Pasha (04:07.932); 2. Sunny Sharma (Faridabad) (04.14.89); 3. Raunak Jana (Kolkata) (04:16.62). Result is provisional pending decision on a protest.

INAC2 Class E: 1. Raunak Jana (04:12.66); 2. Karan Chaudhary (Kolkata) (04:13.34); 3. Nameer Pasha (Chikkamagaluru) (04:17.83).

INAC3 Stock Class A: 1. Amey Desai (Mapusa, Goa) (04:43.59); 2. Kartik Konchady (Mumbai) (04:43.63); 3. Karan Panikar (Navi Mumbai) (05:00.65).

INAC3 Stock Class B: 1. Kushal Chaudhari (New Panvel) (04:35.76).

INAC3 Stock Class C: 1. Amey Desai (04:32.18); 2. Sravan Kumar Kuttoor (Hyderabad) (04:44.63); 3. Pallavi Shamrao Yadav (05:50.75).

INAC3 Stock Class E: 1. Kushal Chaudhari (04:28.56); 2. Areeb Rahman (Kolkata) (04:31.43); 3. Nilanjan Banerjee (Kolkata) (04:42.11).

Ladies Open: 1. Pallavi Shamrao Yadav (Kolhapur) (05:57.36).

4WD Open: 1. Sravan Kumar Kuttoor (04:22.83); 2. Raunak Jana (04:31.32).

Amateur: 1. Nameer Pasha (04:30.95); 2. Ashish Gupta (05:48.66).