Motorsports: Double for Joseph, Khan

Joel Joseph (Bangalore) and Rizwan Khan (Hunsur, Karnataka) scored a double each in the second round of the JK Tyre-FMSCI Indian NationalADrag Racing Championship at the Kari Motor Speedway here Sunday.

Joel, who had dominated the proceedings in the four-wheeler category on the rain-curtailed Saturday, winning both the races, continued his dominance Sunday, topping in both the Indian Open and the unrestricted classes for cars.

Driving a Honda City, the 30-year-old Joel timed 15.466s in the Indian Open class and followed it up with an even better timing of 15.381 in the unrestricted category.

He was obviously overjoyed with back-to-back double victories. "I just went out and gave it my best shot. Also, I clocked a much betterAtiming today," said the Bangalore driver.

Rizwan Khan on a Yamaha R1, meanwhile, proved his class in the two wheeler segment winning both the rounds of the unrestricted category in style.

The results (provisional):

INDRC: Two wheeler - Indian Open (Round 1): 1. A Antony 10.064; 2. MD Javeed Khan 10.114s; 3. Nisarulla H. Khan 10.363. Round 2: 1. MD Javeed Khan 10.285s; 2. Nisarulla H AKhan 10.308; 3. A. Antony.

INDRC Unrestricted (Round 1): Rizwan Khan 8.517; 2. A.R. Shabbir 8.629; 3. Neeraj Kumar Sharma 8.748. Round 2: 1. Rizwan Khan 8.294; 2. Mohammed Riyaz 8.526; 3. Jhangir Mirza 8.530.

INDRC: Four-wheeler -Round 2 (Indian Open): Joel Joseph 15.466; 2. S. Vinod 15.934; 3. Ravindra Boppana 16.469. INDRC Unrestricted: 1. Joel Joseph 15.381; 2. K.S. Suna Miandad 15.735; 3. S. Sivakumar 16.300.

Kari Drag Meet - Round 1 (Cars): Cruiser Class Open: 1. Rahul Ravi 9.108; 2. NeerajA Kumar Sharma 9.493; 3. Sundeep Singh SokhiA 9.869. Bikes: Foreign (Above 1000cc): 1. Rameez Khan 9.256; 2. Rizwan Khan 9.369.

Round 2: Forced induction (Indian cars, 1401-1600cc): 1. HP Bharat Raj 16.539; 2. BL Jagadish 16.724; 3. Joel Joseph 17.128. 1601-2000cc: N. Satish 16.997.

Street stock (Indian cars up to 1150cc): 1. MS Rubaab 19.061; 2. U Abishek 19.604. 1151-1450cc: 1, A. Janardhan 19.090; 2. Vijay Raju 19.102; 3. KV Varun 19.327. 1451-1650cc: 1. Karthik Ashok 16.889; 2. Joel Joseph 17.175; 3. M. Naveen 17.200. 1651-2050cc: J Asten Norman 18.968; 2. S Dinesh 19.722; 3. Santosh Kumar 19.848. Above 3000cc: 1. S Shyamal Jethwa 17.033; 2. Ravindra Boppana 17.107; 3. E Sai Prabhu 18.825.