Vishnu triumphs in Senior Max Round 4
Meco Racing’s Vishnu Prasad displayed his class overcoming the best karters in the country to clinch the fourth round of the Senior Max category at the JK Tyre-FMSCI National Rotax Max Karting Championship 2013 in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Meanwhile, defending champion Krishnaraj Mahadik of Mohite’s Racing and Meco Racing’s Paul T. Francis took the honours in the Junior Max and Micro Max categories respectively at the Kart Centre.
In the fourth round, as many as 34 karters in three categories — Micro Max (7 to 12 years), Junior Max (13 to 16 years) and Senior Max (15 and above) — traversed the 650-metre long track at the Lahari Resorts, where the racers battled hard to secure maximum points in the grassroot level motorsport championship.
Vishnu, who started from the third position, received the only threat at the first corner when Dhruv Mohite of Mohite Racing, starting at the second place, overtook him.
Vishnu, however, fought back after the first lap and led the race till the chequered flag.
Meanwhile, Chittesh S. Mandody of Mohite’s Racing and Rayo Racing’s Ameya Bafna overtook Dhruv and pushed him to the fourth position. Nayan Chatterjee of Rayo Racing also joined the pack, with all fighting for the second place.
After five laps, Dhruv and Nayan indulged in a tussle for the fourth spot and as a result, Nayan lost few places. After few more laps, Ameya managed to overtake the toughest racer of the grid Chittesh to claim the second position.
Vishnu finished as the winner, while Chittesh settled for the third place.
After Round 4, Vishnu leads the championship in the Senior Max category with 322 points, 14 ahead of Rayo Racing’s Nayan and Ameya, who are placed second and third respectively,with 308 points each.
The Junior Max Final race began with an unfortunate collision at the first corner involving all the leading five karters, following which pole position holder Kush Maini of Dark Don Racing lost a couple of places. Mahadik materialised the opportunity and took the lead and maintained it till the end.
The collision also gave a chance to Dark Don Racing’s Mira Erda and Sri Lankan racer Eshan David Pieris to hold second and third positions respectively till the final lap, before colliding with each other.
It opened the doors for Arya Chirag Gandhi of Rayo Racing and Akash Gowda of Meco Racing, who claimed the second and third positions respectively.
Eshan and Mira finished in the seventh and eighth places.
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