Pole positions for Vishnu, Kush and Yash: 2nd round of JK Tyre Rotax Max Karting Nationals

By Vivek Phadnis

Hyderabad, 26 July 2014:  Chennai’s Vishnu Prasad will take pole position for the pre-final race of the Senior Max Category in the 2nd round of the JK Tyre-FMSCI National Rotax Max Karting Championship 2014. Prasad finished third in the first heat and then emerged fastest in the second to tally a total of three points and win this honour at the Airport Track in Hyderabad on Saturday. Prasad will be followed by Chittesh Mandody of Mohites Racing, who won the first heat and finished fourth in the second, while starting in third place will be Rayo Racing’s Nayan Chatterjee, who finished second and third in the two heats respectively.

The Junior Max category (drivers between the age of 13 and 16) saw Kush Maini of Dark Don Racing win both the heats ahead of Ricky R Donison of BPC Racing to take pole position. Donison, who finished second in both heats will start in second, followed by Akash Gowda of Meco Racing, who was third in both heats. 

There was a tie for the fourth and fifth positions between the only girl in the fray, Mira Erda of Dark Don Racing and Aaroh Rabindra of Rayo Racing as both tallied nine points, before Mira was given the fourth slot because of faster timings in the qualifying races.

Bangalore’s Yash Aradhya, representing Meco Racing, stamped his class on the Micro Max category (drivers between the age of 7 and 12) by winning both heats in most convincing fashion, continuing from where he had left off in the opening round.  Yash won the first heat a whopping 8.823 seconds ahead of the second placed Arjun Nair, while in the second he was 3.418 seconds ahead of the second placed Chirag Ghorpade.

Yash, who won the first round in heroic fashion, beating the field after starting at the end on the grid in 12th position, was once again in total control of the proceedings and is definitely emerging the driver to watch out for.

Both the heats in the Junior Max category saw a close battle for supremacy between Maini and Donison with the former winning the first heat by a fraction of a second. In the second heat, it was Donison who surged ahead at the start and maintained the lead till the 12th lap, before Maini squeezed past on the second corner. The lead changed hands thrice in the 13th lap, before Maini edged ahead and took the chequered flag, again a fraction of a second ahead of Donison.

Top five positions:

Senior Max category: Vishnu Prasad (Meco Racing); Chittesh Mandody (Mohites Racing); Nayan Chatterjee (Rayo Racing); Ameya Bafna (Rayo Racing); Arya Gandhi (Rayo Racing).

Junior Max category: Kush Maini (Dark Don Racing); Ricky R Donison (BPC Racing); Akash Gowda (Meco Racing); Mira Erda (Dark Don Racing); Aaroh Rabindra (Rayo Racing).

Micro Max category: Yash Aradhya (Meco Racing); Shahan Ali Mohsin (Meco Racing); Arjun Nair (Meco Racing); Paul Francis (Meco Racing); Nikhil Bohra (Meco Racing).

eom/Press Release by Vivek Phadnis