Eshanth Vengatesan wins third place in ROK Cup Round 1 finals at Singapore
Singapore, 18 March 2025: The 13-year-old Eshanth Vengatesan from Chennai notched up a brilliant podium in the ROK Cup Junior Karting Championship held in Singapore on March 15 and 16.
Eshanth took the final spot on the podium, finishing third in the final race of Round 1 in the ROK Cup Junior section at the KF1 Circuit in Singapore. The ROK Cup Singapore kicked off last weekend with 47 drivers on the grid across 4 categories namely Mini, Junior, Senior, and Rookie. Satt Kotak, Conrad Garrow, Dillan Tan, took dominant wins in the first 3 categories respectively.
Eshanth, who finished runners-up in the fmsci Rotax Max National Karting Championship Junior category last year is a student of SBOA Global School, Anna Nagar, Chennai. The MSport karter won the first runner-up place in the OK-Junior Championship last year and was nominated by the Indian Federation (fmsci) to represent India in the FIA Karting Academy Junior Championship to be held later this year in Europe with rounds in Spain, Germany and Italy.
Born on 17th September 2011, Eshanth made his debut in the Indian National Championship in 2022 and won his debut race in the Micro Max class. He finished runner-up in the Nationals that year to take a deserving ‘Best Newcomer Award’. Later, he represented India in the Asia Pacific Championship held in Malaysia in 2023 and Singapore in 2024. Before returning to India, he started as a cadet in Singapore at the age of 9 and displayed good speed and skills to match the pace of seniors. In 2023, he also finished second in the Meritus Cup.
The Sebastian Vettel fan will be looking forward to a fruitful season in India, apart from his international OKJ races.
