The pair of Karna Kadur and Nikhil Vittal Pai (Arka Motorsports) secured its third consecutive overall win in the Coffee Day India Rally, the fourth round of the MRF-FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship, here on Sunday.
Amittrajit Ghosh & Ashwin Naik (Mahindra Adventure) brushed off a five-second overnight deficit to finish second, ahead of K.M. Bopaiah & Gagan Karumbaiah (Team Champions).
Amittrajit, with 79 points now, continues to lead overall as opposed to Kadur’s 67 and Gill’s 60. The title will be decided in the fifth and concluding round in Kochi in January.
The results (provisional):
Overall: 1. Karna Kadur & Nikhil Pai (Arka Motorsports) 02:19:59.9s; 2. Amittrajit Ghosh & Ashwin Naik (Mahindra Adventure) 02:22:15.3; 3. K.M. Bopaiah & Gagan Karumbaiah (Team Champions) 02:22:18.8.
INRC-1: Amittrajit & Ashwin; 2. Gaurav Gill & Musa Sherif (Mahindra Adventure) 02:23:49.2; 3. Michu Ganapathy & Venu Rameshkumar (Team Champions) 02:27:18.1.
INRC-2: 1. Karna & Nikhil; 2. Bopaiah & Gagan; 3. Younus Ilyas & K.N. Harish (Pvt) 02:22:34.7.
INRC-3: 1. Arjun Bani Rao & Milen George (Chettinad Sporting) 02:24:29.4; 2. Fabid Ahmer & Shahid Salman (Chettinad Sporting) 02:26:34.7; 3. Aroor Vikram Rao & Somayya (Team Falkon) 02:27:57.4.
FMSCI 2WD Cup: 1. Vikram Gowda & B.G. Sudheendra (Team Champions) 02:31:51.6; 2. Prakhyat Shirole & S.M. Bharath (Pvt) 02:32:53.0; 3. Manoj Mohanan & Sob George 02:35:32.7.
FMSCI 4WD Cup: 1. Sanjay Agarwal & Smitha Prasad (Team Champions) 02:31:20.0; 2. Sachin Murthy & Satyapal 02:35:00.5; 3. Avin Nanjappa & M. Suraj (Pvt) 02:39:26.5.