KP Karthick Maruthi-Sankar Anand win Pro Expert category in MRF Rally of Bangalore

Bangalore, 27 Sept 2015: The Erode pair of KP KarthickMaruthi-Sankar Anand won the Pro Expert category in the MRF Rally of Bangalore, the fifth round of the 2015 FMSCI Indian National TSD Rally Championship, here on Sunday.

The duo won the event by a total time penalty of 29 seconds, just two seconds ahead of the Kolkata-Erode pair of SK Ajgar Ali-Mohammad Musthafa MK. Arvind J-M Chandrashekar finished third with a total time of 32 seconds. Ali and Musthafa were leading the championship before this event but this second place has dealt a small blow to them.

In the Pro Stock category, KolkatansSauravChatterjee-Ashoke Kumar Basuwon after attracting a total time penalty of three minutes, one second. Championship leaders before this event, V Sekar-G Natarajan, finished second with a total time penalty of three minutes, 16 seconds. Finishing third were Amarnath GJ and Mokthiyar Ahmed with a time of 05:16.

In the Green Run Rally for local participants, Pramod Vig-Prakash M won the Pro Expert category with a total time penalty of one minute, 02 seconds. The Pro Stock category was won by V Darshan-Velumurgan with a total time penalty of 12 minutes, 26 seconds.

The event was sponsored by MRF and conducted by the Karnataka Motor Sports Club.

The areas that the competitors went through were Konasandra, Hemmigepura, Gollahalli, Gangasandra, Thittahalli, Nelaguli around Mysore Road and Kanakapura Road. The total distance covered by entrants of the Rally of Karnataka and Green Run Rally was 160Km.Approximately 90 per cent of the Rally was run on dirt and the remaining on tarmac. The start and finish points were The Club on Mysore Road.

Out of a total of 28 cars that started, there was just one car that did not finish.

Results:

MRF Rally of Bangalore:
Pro Expert: 1. KP KarthickMaruthi-Sankar Anand (00:00:29); 2. SK Ajgar Ali-Mohammad Musthafa MK (00:00:31); 3.Arvind J-M Chandrashekar (00:00:32).

Pro Stock: 1. SauravChatterjee-Ashoke Kumar Basu (00:03:01); 2. V Sekar-G Natarajan (00:03:16); 3.Amarnath GJ-Mokthiyar Ahmed (00:05:16).

Green Run Rally:
Pro Expert: 1. Pramod Vig-Prakash M (00:01:02); 2. Ravee-Kumar M (00:01:06); 3.Jatin Kumar-Arjun SSB (00:01.50).

Pro Stock: 1. V Darshan-Velumurugan (00:12:26); 2. A Vinodh-D Raghu Raman (00:12:52); 3.Mohammad Rafi-Balamurugan S (00:35:04).

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