Double delight for Aditya and Chetan
The Hindu
Bengaluru's Aditya Swaminathan & Chetan Surineni win doubles in MRF Formula 2000 & F1600 respectively. Angad Matharoo (Chandigarh) wins MRF Saloon Car (Toyota Etios) category. Diana Pundole (Pune) 1st female to score double in MMSC National 4-wheeler racing. Deepak Ravikumar (Chennai, Performance Racing) & T.S. Diljith (Thrissur, DTS Racing) win Indian Junior Touring Cars & Formula LGB 1300 respectively.
Bengaluru’s Aditya Swaminathan and Chetan Surineni notched a double each in the MRF Formula 2000 and F1600 categories, respectively, in the third round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI National car racing championships here on Sunday.
Chandigarh’s Angad Matharoo provisionally clinched the championship in the MRF Saloon car (Toyota Etios) category with five wins from nine starts, besides two podium finishes this weekend.
Also scoring a double over the weekend were Pune’s Diana Pundole in the MRF Saloon Car category, who became the first female driver to score a double in a single round in MMSC National four-wheeler racing championship, Deepak Ravikumar (Chennai, Performance Racing) in Indian Junior Touring Cars and T.S. Diljith (Thrissur, DTS Racing) in Formula LGB 1300.
Provisional results (eight laps, unless mentioned): MRF Formula 2000: Race-1: 1. Aditya Swaminathan (Chennai) 16: 02.814s, 2. Rohaan Madesh (Bengaluru) (16:03.313), 3. Chetan Korada (Chennai) (16:08.561).
Race-2 (10 laps): 1. Aditya Swaminathan 16:13.886, 2. Arya Singh (Kolkata) 16:14.640, 3. Sandeep Kumar (Chennai) 16:15.805.
Race-3: 1. Sandeep Kumar 13:08.364, 2. Arya Singh 13:08.781, 3. Rohaan Madesh 13:09.123.
MRF F1600: Race-1: 1. Chetan Surineni (Bengaluru) 16:38.263, 2. Viswas Vijayaraj (Nellore) 16:39.456, 3. Aman Nagdev (Noida) (14:59.154 + 1 lap).
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