Arjun Rao Aroor- Chandramouli win Rally of the North

New Delhi, 14 Nov 2005: Aroor Arjun Rao along with co-driver M Chandramouli of Team MRF, showing maturity beyond his 22 years, kept his nerves to finish overall first in his Baleno in the MRF Rally of the North, the fifth round of MAI Indian National Rally Championship (INRC) that concluded at Surajkund, near here,on Sunday.

Aroor, a 22-year old from Mangalore, spared six seconds to former national champion VR Naren Kumar (co-driver D Ram Kumar) of Team JK Tyre, also in a Baleno, for his first success of the 2005 championship.

Naren drove as hard as he could, but could not make up the overnight deficit of 14 seconds.

In the process, Aroor also set-up a three-way battle for the championship along with Naren and team-mate Arjun Balu and co-driver Kumar Ramaswamy.

Provisional classification:

Overall-1600cc: 1. Aroor Arjun Rao-M Chandramouli (Team MRF, Baleno) 1hr, 29mins, 48secs; 2. VR Naren Kumar-D Ram Kumar (Team JK Tyre, Baleno) 1:29:54; 3. Arjun Balu-Kumar Ramaswamy (Team MRF, Baleno) 1:31:04; 4. Lohit V Urs-Moosa Sherief (Team MRF, Baleno) 1:32:15; Rahul Kantharaj-Vivek Bhatt (Baleno) 1:37:26.

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