Jagan, Prabhu score a double
Jagan Kumar ( TVS Racing) and Prabhu Arunagiri ( Team Alisha Abdullah) notched a double apiece in their respective categories in the third round of the MRF MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the Madras Motor Racing Track in Chennai on Sunday.
Also on the winner’s list in the National Championship were Kevin Kannan ( Rockers Racing) who scored his maiden victory in the ProStock 165cc class and Arjun Rajendran who took the honours in the Novice ( Stock 165cc) category.
Last year’s champion Jagan, without a win in the first two rounds this season, closed out a very successful weekend with another dominating performance in the premier Super Sport Indian ( 165cc) class, but not without a bitter fight with his archrival Sarath Kumar ( Idemitsu Honda Ten10 Racing) who denied TVS Racing a repeat of yesterday’s 1- 2 finish by pipping KY Ahamed to second place in a thrilling race.
Pole- sitter Sarath Kumar conceded his track position soon after start with Jagan and later Ahamed moving past him. However, Sarath fought his way back to overtake Ahamed and then hung on grimly for a well- deserved second spot while Jagan put in consistent laps to emerge a clear winner.
At the end of Round 3, Jagan leads the championship with 112 points, followed by Ahamed ( 91) while TVS Racing’s Deepak Ravikumar who has been consistently picking up points, is in third with 74, just ahead of Sarath Kumar and his Honda team- mate Rajiv Sethu, both tied on 70.
Earlier, Arunagiri scored his second win of the weekend in the ProStock ( 301- 400cc) category, again holding off Gusto Racing India team’s Satyanarayana Raju and Amarnath Menon. The victory took Arunagiri’s tally to 89 points which placed him third in the championship behind Menon ( 105) and Raju ( 94) after three of the scheduled five rounds.