Samuel Jacob overall winner in 2w MRF Mogrip INRC: Rally of Coimbatore

Coimbatore, 24 Jan 2021: Samuel Jacob of Team TVS Racing astride a TVS RTR 260cc became the Overall Winner of MRF Mogrip fmsci Rally of Coimbatore 2020, the third round of the Indian National Rally Championship for two-wheelers here on Sunday. He clocked a penalty of 1 hour 1 minute and 3 seconds in the National event successfully hosted by the Coimbatore Auto Sports Club and promoted by God Speed Racing under the dynamic leadership of Shyam Kothari, 7-time national motocross and multiple champion.

J Imran Pasha, also from TVS Racing, bagged the Overall Runner-up place clocking 1:1:39. “The track gave ample scope to test the abilities of both the man and the machine, with many challenging and technical stages,” said Samuel, the winner of Group A pro-expert class. The event ran like clock-work without any delay, despite the COVID19 restrictions and a total distance of 80.22km, with a Special Stage distance of 67.00 kms was run on Saturday and Sunday.

Local lad K Saravana Kumar won the Star of Tamil Nadu category exclusively for riders from Tamil Nadu. He posted a splendid performance finishing overall 23rd with a time of 1 hour 9 minutes and 13 seconds. The ceremonial flag off was held from Suguna Kalyana Mandapam by Goutham Hari, MRF, Regional Sales Manager on Saturday.

Deeban Kumar, MRF’s District Manager, Coimbatore, was the chief guest for the prize distribution function which was held at Sennammal Kovil Mandapam, near Kethanur on Sunday. Organisers, CASC thanked MRF Limited and Godspeed for sponsoring and conducting the Championship successfully.

Provisional Unaudited Results:

Class 1: Super Bike Pro-expert Group A: 1. #4 Nataraj R (TVS Racing) (01:02.28.714); 2. #11 Rakesh Kumar P (Privateer Apache RTR) (01:07:40.744); 3. #12 Vinay Prasad (Pvt. Hero Xpulse) (01:08:01.976).

Class 4: Super Sport 260B: 1. #1 Samuel lJacob (TVS Racing) (01hour; 01minute, 03.089 seconds);2. #6 J Imran Pasha (TVS Racing) (01:01.39.601); 3. #2 D Sachin (TVS Racing) (0:02.55.334). (All Apache
RTR)

Editor’s note: Results are incomplete and will be added as and when official copy is received