Domestic Karting National Championship Racing

Clean sweep by Ruhaan; Ishaan Madesh, Nirmal clinch title in their class with a round to spare

David Bodapati July 14, 2019

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Ruhaan wins all four races in Round 4 on Sunday. An INDIAinF1 image

Winners all: The Round 4 winners of the X30 Karting Nationals at Meco Kartopia on Sunday

Bengaluru, 14 July 2019: Ruhaan Alva and Ishaan Madesh stamped their authority in the X-30 Junior and Cadet classes respectively winning all the four races in the Round 4 while 17-year old Nirmal Umashanker found a late challenger in Abhirath Shetty of Bengaluru, who notched off two wins in the 4-race Round 4, but the Chennai lad came back to win the last race and won the maiden X30 Senior Class Championship for the year 2019 with a round to spare. While Ruhaan has to wait for the last round, Ishaan Madesh too has clinched the Cadet Class Championship title with a round to spare as he enjoys an unbeatable lead of over 40 points.

Ruhaan wins all 4 races in Junior Class Round 4 on Sunday. An INDIAinF1 photo by arrangement

Nirmal, a 2nd-year mechanical engineering student, restored some pride winning two of the four races and bagged the inaugural Championship title winning the X-30 Senior Class with a huge unbeatable lead of 56 points going into Round four next month with 40 points on offer. He garnered 137 points with Debarun Banerjee of Delhi trailing in second place with only 81 points.

The JK Tyre National Karting Championship weekend which concluded at the 1.2km Meco Kartopia circuit, here on Sunday, saw four races each in the X-30 Round 3 and Round 4 that were held together in a three-day weekend from Friday.

Ruhaan Alva, all of 13 years, won all the four races, with ease and grace as he maintained comfortable margins of lead in the Junior category while Ishaan, the younger of Madesh brothers, from Bengaluru continued his unbeaten run winning all the four races in the Cadet category.

The 10-year old Vidyashilp Academy student suffered a rare loss yesterday to Shriya Lohia of Pune but his dominance on the track goes hand in hand with the playful nature of a tiny-tot, all intact.

Ishaan Madesh on way to his victory in Race 4 on Sunday.

Race 1 of all the three categories of Round 4 were held on Saturday. Sunday began with the Junior class and Ruhaan Alva took a commanding lead and was so relaxed with a comfortable lead that Arjun Nair and Ryan Mohammed were left fighting for the second place.

And Ruhaan, lost the sight of the fastest lap as he won by over four seconds but Arjun pipped Ryan for the second with Ryan forced to be content with the fastest lap.

Later in both the races, Ruhaan showed his mastery and won the races with the fastest lap to boot. Arjun Nair came second pushing MR Rishon to third in Race 3 while Rishon took the second spot edging out Arjun in Race 4.

Ishaan Madesh (centre) won all the four races in the Round 4 to lead the X-30 Cadet championship.

Ishaan Madesh took to the track after the Junior race and he continued to win all the three races in the Cadet class. After a rare loss yesterday, he did well to control the proceedings and won Race1 beating Pune’s Sai Shiva while Raiden Samervel of Mumbai came third, far behind the top two.

However, it was the lone girl in the class, Shriya Lohia, who caught the eye, with her racing. She gave a tough fight to Ishaan in both Race 3 and 4 and also managed to bag the fastest laps. After the end of Round 4, Ishaan has 153 points and the second-place Shriya Lohia has 107. With four races and 40 points on offer in the last round, Ishaan virtually sealed the title for 2019 in the Cadet Class.

Today INDIAinF1 features the photograph of the Baby of the Round 4 Arafath Sheikh, the youngest driver on the grid, who displayed amazing guts to overtake three of his more popular and experienced mates before finishing sixth in Cadet Class Race 3. At just 7 years, the young karter has a bright future if groomed well and nurtured properly.

Baby of the Round, Arafath, in action on Sunday.

Provisional Unaudited Results: X30 Round 4:

Senior Class: Race 2 (15 laps): 1. Nirmal Umashanker (Chennai) (14:26.347); 2. Abhirath Shetty (Bengaluru) (14.28.209); 3. Aditya Swaminathan (Bengaluru) (14:28.588). Best Lap: Nirmal 55.322.

Race 3 (15 laps): 1. Abhirath Shetty (13:56.849); 2. Nirmal Umashanker (13:57.138); 3.Aditya Swaminathan (14:06.852). Best Lap: Nirmal 55.242.

Race 4 (15 laps): 1. Nirmal Umashanker (14:01.022); 2. A Bala Prasath (Coimbatore) (14:05.400); 3.Abhirath Shetty (14:08.818). Best Lap: Nirmal 55.252.

Junior Class: Race 2 (15 laps): 1. Ruhaan Alva (Bengaluru) (13:55.994); 2. Arjun S Nair (Bengaluru) (14:00.210); 3. Ryan Mohammed (Chennai) (14:00.341). Best Lap: Ryan 55.145.

Race 3 (15 laps): 1. Ruhaan Alva (13:52.519); 2. Arjun S Nair (13: 54.422); 3. MR Rishon (Bengaluru) (13:56.762). Best Lap: Ruhaan 55.228.

Race 4 (15 laps): 1. Ruhaan Alva (13:52.325); 2. MR Rishon (13:55.129); 3. Arjun S Nair (13:58.400); Best Lap: Ruhaan 55.178.

Cadet Class: Race 2 (10 laps): 1. Ishaan Madesh (Bengaluru) (11:16.885); 2. Sai Shiva Makesh Sankaran (Pune) (11:17.245); 3. Raiden Samervel (Mumbai) (11:28.082). Best Lap: Ishaan 1:02.681.

Race 3 (10 laps): 1. Ishaan Madesh (11:15.186); 2. Shriya Lohia (Pune) (11:15.499); 3. Sai Shiva Makesh Sankaran (11:21.476). Best Lap: Shriya 1:02.777.

Race 4 (10 lap): 1. Ishaan Madesh (10:34.220); 2. Shriya Lohia (10:35.078); 3. Raiden Samervel (10:45.089). Best Lap: Shriya 1:02.660.

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