A big win for Rajini Krishnan in Race 1: Malaysian SBK 1000cc Open Class

David Bodapati May 14, 2018

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India's Rajini Krishnan holds aloft the winner's trophy.

Sepang (Kuala Lumpur), 14 May 2018: Indian racer Rajini Krishnan won the opening round Race 1 of the Pirelli Malaysian Superbike series Round 1 of the 2018 season at Sepang International Circuit here on Sunday.

Krishnan started from P3, but the 2015 Malaysia Super bike champion in the 1000cc open class, took the lead early by Lap 2 and won with ease for a big win in almost one year.

The Indian talent suffered a high slide and fell on Lap3 while in second position and fell back to 18th place. However, he managed to race hard to climb back into the fifth place and had to be content with the same position in Race 2 for some valuable points.

The RACR Team also had racers taking part in the Super 250 , 600cc Supersport and the Superbike 1000cc open categories.

Another talented racer, Vishwadev Muralidharan finished 8th in Race 1 of the Super 250cc category and improved to 7th place in the second race in the evening.

In the Supersport 600cc class, Abhijith Prasad came 5th in Race 1 while another RACR racer Ritesh Sapre came 11th. Prasad, however, could only finish 9th in Race 2 while Sapre ended up 18th.