Rajendra will miss Round 4 of INRC for two-wheelers on Sunday
Coimbatore, 22 August 2019: TVS Racing star Rajendra RE, who made a clean sweep of all the three rounds thus far in Pro-Expert Group A, will be missing the Round 4 of the MRF MoGrip fmsci Indian National Rally Championship (INRC) for two-wheelers here on Sunday.
Teammates Tanweer and defending champion R Nataraj too failed to submit the required documents during the scrutiny and the Group A event is expected to be cancelled. All the riders will be hoping for dry weather after the wet and slushy Round 3 in Pune and locals and other stars like Venu Ramesh Kumar and Suhail Ahmed will be gunning for overall honours.
The 2W Rally of Coimbatore, promoted by Godspeed Racing of Pune and organised by Coimbatore Auto Sports Club (CASC), will be run on a mix of dirt and gravel Special Stages. The event has attracted 70 riders in nine classes.
The total distance of the route including the transport section is 109.27 km. The two Special Stages, Black Thunder (14.35 km) and the Thunder World (14.10 km) will be run twice in the same direction taking the Special Stage rallying distance to 56.90 km.
The nine classes that form the National championship 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.
A dozen local riders have entered for the Star of Tamil Nadu category which is run exclusively for riders from Tamil Nadu.
Edited with inputs from TVS team
