Ajay Kini seals championship with treble

Ajay Kini from Bangalore completed a fine treble to clinch the championship in the LGB Formula 1300 class with a round to spare in the MMSC-FMSCI National Racing Championship here Sunday.

Equally dominating was 16-year old Tarun Reddy who won all the three races this weekend in the MRF Formula Ford 1600 class without once looking beatable. It was yet another fine exhibition by this teenager who is off to England Monday to continue his campaign in the Formula Renault UK next weekend.

Reddy has so far won nine of the 11 races this season and looks set to clinch the championship with three more outings of the final round remaining.

The first race of the Formula 1600 started with an incident in the very first lap, requiring the Safety Car to be deployed. On re-start, Reddy who had begun fourth in the reverse grid formation, quickly moved through the field and won quite comfortably.

In the next race too Reddy, starting from pole position, was rarely troubled and completed a command performance with another easy victory.

Kini, who had won both the races Saturday, consolidated his position with another victory in the third and concluding outing Sunday to seal the championship with a tally of 152 points from six seven from nine starts.

Kini, thus, opened up an unassailable lead of 50 points over Goutham Parekh with just two races of the final round scheduled to be held in New Delhi next month.

Meanwhile, Senthil V.J. from Trichy snatched a four-point lead over defending champion S. Feroze Khan in the Indian Junior Touring Cars championship with three wins and a third place finish in the four races this weekend.

Senthil has 129 points to Khan's 125 with a round (two races) to be run.

The results:

MRF Formula Ford 1600 (Race-2, 10 laps): Tarun Reddy 1 (20mins, 56.301secs); Advait Deodhar 2 (21:06.036); Lee Keshav 3 (21:11.876). Race-3: Tarun Reddy 1 (17:12.735); Advait Deodhar 2 (17:20.736); Vikash Anand 3 (17:22.896).

LGB Formula 1300 (Race-3, 7 laps): Ajay Kini (Bangalore) 1 (13:39.047); Deepak Paul Chinappa (Bangalore) 2 (13:39.402); Goutham Parekh (Chennai) 3 (13:52.066).

Indian Touring Cars (Race-3, 10 laps): Arjun Narendran (Big Foot Racing) 1 (19:18.969); Ashish Ramaswamy (Big Foot Racing) 2 (19:24.061); Vidyuth Iyer (Big Foot Racing) 3 (19:37.919).

Super Stock (Race-3, 10 laps): Bala Vijay (Performance Racing) 1 (21:06.951); Chandresh N Tolia (Team Game Over) 2 (20:13.612 + 1 lap); MN Sridhar (Gas Monkey Motorsports) 3 (20:13.913 + 1 lap).

Indian Junior Touring Cars (Race-3, 8 laps): Senthil V.J. (Big Foot Racing) 1 (16:53.356); Sidharth S (Big Foot Racing) 2 (16:56.143); S. Feroze Khan (RAD Racing) 3 (16:56.483). Race-4 (8 laps): Senthil V.J. 1 (16:57.617); S. Feroze Khan 2 (17:00.675); Sidharth S 3 (17:00.884).