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Chidu-Sujith clinch overall and Pro-Stock titles: TSD Nationals

David Bodapati February 2, 2013

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Mysore, 2 Feb 2013: Ace rallying duo Chidanand Murthy and Sujith Kumar BS from Bengaluru of Tata Motors Full Throttle won the the sixth and final round of the JK Tyre fmsci Indian National TSD Rally Championship to lift the overall and Pro-Stock titles with ease, here Saturday.

The celebrated Bengaluru pair used their experience on a day when eight rallyists were excluded for missing the Time Controls, to take their fourth win in the championship and sealed the title even as their team Tata Motors Full Throttle garnered all the categories making it a complete sweep for the factory works team.

After clinching the title in the Pro-Stock class with a round to spare, Murthy and Sujith it was a formality that needed to be completed and they did it in style. Teammates Satish Gopalkrishnan and Savera D’Souza, the husband and wife team also from Bengaluru won the Pro-Expert class despite being penalised for missing the TCs.

Another popular rally-pair representing Full Throttle, Karthick Maruthi and Sankar Anand from Erode had to settle for second in the championship in both overall and Pro-Expert categories.

Murthy and Sujith (three minutes, 31 seconds) edged past MD Ganesh Moorthy and T Nagarajan who took the second place 15 seconds behind the winners. Saurav Chatterjee and Moulinath Ghosh came third (05:44).

Gaining from the exclusions, Kolkata pair, Nirmalya Das and Shaktivel topped in the Pro-Expert class clocking a penalty of 13 minutes, 39 seconds with Anubhab Deb and Chandan Sen (34:58) coming second. The experienced GB Girijashankar Joshy and Chandramouli M, also of team Full Throttle, finished third in 38:44.

The results (provisional): Overall: Chidanand Murthy / Sujith Kumar BS (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 1 (03mins, 31secs); MD Ganesh Moorthy / T Nagarajan (Pvt) 2 (03:46); Saurav Chatterjee / Moulinath Ghosh (Pvt) 3 (05:44).

Pro-Expert: Nirmalya Das / Shaktivel (Pvt) 1 (13:39); Anubhab Deb / Chandan Sen (Pvt) 2 (34:58); GB Girijashankar Joshy / Chandramouli M (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 3 (38:44).

Pro-Stock: Chidanand Murthy / Sujith Kumar BS (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 1 (03mins, 31secs); MD Ganesh Moorthy / T Nagarajan (Pvt) 2 (03:46); Saurav Chatterjee / Moulinath Ghosh (Pvt) 3 (05:44).

Final Championship standings (top 3): Overall: Satish Gopalkrishnan / Savera D’Souza (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 1 (78 points); Karthick Maruthi / Sankar Anand (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 2 (71 pts); Sachin Singh / Chandrasekar M (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 3 (57 pts).

Pro-Expert: Satish Gopalkrishnan / Savera D’Souza (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 1 (78 points); Karthick Maruthi / Sankar Anand (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 2 (77 pts); GB Girijashankar Joshy (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 3 (68 pts).

Pro-Stock: Chidanand Murthy / Sujith Kumar BS (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 1 (133 pts); Shanmugam Gopalkrishnan / Venkatesh Sekar (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 2 (81 pts); Srikanth Gowda / Kuriakose Elias Paarel (Tata Motors Full Throttle) 3 (52 pts).