Imran Pasha bags overall honours; Rajendra misses the event as Group A is with-held

Coimbatore, 25 August 2019: Twenty-one-year-old rider from Mysuru, J Imran Pasha competing in C4 class was the hero of the Round 4 as he emerged victorious bagging the overall bagged the overall honours in the Rally of Coimbatore, a round of the MRF Mogrip National Rally Championship held at the windmill farms of Kethnur, near Palladam, here on Sunday.

Imran Pasha of Team TVS Racing had the opportunity to showcase his skills as firm favourite and championship leader Rajendra RE, who won all the first three rounds and other TVS teammates could not take the start as they failed to submit the necessary documents for the bikes before the deadline given by the federation. Thus, Rajendra, Nataraj, Tanveer among others, could not compete in the round and the Pro-Expert Group A event was withheld.

The 2W Rally of Coimbatore, promoted by Godspeed Racing of Pune and organised by Coimbatore Auto Sports Club (CASC), was run on a mix of dirt and gravel Special Stages which were battered by rains a few days before the run-up of the event. The event has attracted 70 riders in nine classes.

The total distance of the route included transport section distance of 109.27 km. The two Special Stages, Black Thunder consisting of 14.35 kms and the Thunder World of 14.10 km, were run twice in the same direction taking the Special Stage rallying distance to 56.90 km.

The stage-rallying took place in nine classes that formed the National championship. They are Super Bike (Pro Expert, Group A), Super Bike (Expert Group A), Super Sport 130 Group B, Super Sport 165 Group B, Super Sport 260 Group B, Super Sport 400 Group B, Super Sport 550 Group B and Scooter 210 Group B and Ladies Class Group B.

Imran Pasha clocked a time of 52min 17sec beating teammate Samuel Jacob who took 21 seconds more to complete the stages. Mangalore’s Adnaan Ahmed, a privateer rider, came third.

Pasha also won the C4 class with Samuel and Adnaan in tow.

Badal Doshi from Mumbai won the Group 1A while local hero Venu Ramesh Kumar won the C1 Class. Noldin Thomas from Kochi topped C2 class and another local rider Sasikumar K bagged the C3 class. In the C5 class, Sudeep Kottary from Mangaluru won with Bengaluru’s Suhail Ahmed winning the C6 class making a comeback kafter Dakshin Dare crash.

Syed Asif Ali from TVS Racing won C7 class and World Cup Baja winner Aiswarya Pissay continued her winning run topping Class 8. Rakesh Kumar won the Star of Coimbatore class.

Provisional unaudited Results:

Overall: 1. J. Imran Pasha (TVS Racing)(penalty 0:52:17); 2. Samuel Jacob (TVS Racing) (0:52:38); 3. Adnaan Ahamed (Mangalore) (0:52:52).

Super bike Pro Expert: C-1: 1. Venu Ramesh Kumar (Coimbatore) (0:56:27); 2. R. Vignesh (Chennai) (1:02:59).

Super Bike Expert: C-1A: 1. Badal Doshi (Mumbai) (0:55:35); 2. Jatin Jain (Nagpur) (0:56:11).

C-2 130cc: 1. Noldin Thomas (Kochi); 2. Azeeb Mohammed (Kottayam); 3. P. Janardhanan (Bengaluru).

C-3 165cc: K. Sasi Kumar (Coimbatore); 2. Ishaan Chandra (Mangalore); 3. Akshay Siddaramaiah (Bengaluru).

C-4 260cc: 1. J. Imran Pasha (TVS Racing); 2. Samuel Jacob (TVS Racing); 3. Adnaan Ahamed (Mangalore).

C-5 400cc: 1. Sudeep Kottary (Mangalore); 2. Mithun Gopal (Trivandrum); 3. K. Vikram (Coimbatore).

C-6 550cc: 1. Suhail Ahamed (Bengaluru); 2. Arun Joy (Kochi); 3. Jeemon Antony (Kochi).

C-7 Scooter class 210cc: 1. Syed Asif Ali; 2. Shamim Khan; 3. Pinkesh Thakkar (all from TVS Racing).

C-8 Ladies: 1. Aishwarya Pissay (TVS Racing); 2. A. Ryhane Bee (Chennai); 3. Baishali Nath (Assam).

C-9 (Star of Tamil Nadu): 1. Rakesh Kumar; 2. S. Vishnu Prakash; 3. Jaideep Joshi (all from Coimbatore).