Double for Honda rider Sethu,TVS Racing's Ravikumar, Abhimanyu

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Press Trust of India Chennai
Last Updated : Jul 07 2019 | 7:10 PM IST

: Idemitsu Honda Ten10 Racing and its rivals TVS Racing shared the honours on the concluding day of the second round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the MMRT track at Sriperumbudur near here Sunday.

Deepak Ravikumar (TVS Racing) and Rajiv Sethu (Idemitsu Honda Ten10 Racing) completed a double each in contrasting styles.

Ravikumar was in a league of his own with an authoritative win in the premium Pro-Stock 301-400cc race, his second of the weekend.

Amarnath Menon (Team Alisha Abdullah) denied TVS Racing another 1-2 by pipping KY Ahamed.

Sethu repeated Saturday's Race 1 win over TVS Racings Jagan Kumar for a double in the Pro-Stock 165cc class.

After exchanging leads with Jagan through the race, Sethu made a heart-stopping pass on the last corner of the last lap to pull off a superb win while Ahamed scrambled to third spot.

Bengaluru-based Anish Shetty (Idemitsu Honda Ten10 Racing) survived a close fight with Mathan Kumar (Erula Racing) to win the Pro-Stock 200-300cc race with Abhishek Vasudev, also from Bengaluru, a distant third.

Also achieving a double was Abhimanyu Gautam (Sparks Racing) in the Novice (Stock 165cc) class, sparing nearly three seconds to Venkatesan I (Motomania), while Mohan Babu (Rockers Racing) completed the podium.

Meanwhile, defending champion in the Girls (Stock 165cc) category, Ann Jennifer suffered a rare defeat as she finished third behind her Sparks Racing team-mate Ryhana Bee and Alisha Abdullah (Team Alisha Abdullah) in the five-lap race.

It was Bee's maiden win in the championship as she made capital of a favourable situation that had pole-sitter Jennifer fumbling at the start and then getting caught up in traffic.

While Bee disappeared in the distance, Jennifer could not pass Alisha and decided to hold position with an eye on the championship points.

On a hot day, Chennai youngsters Varoon Sadasivam, Kavin Samaar Quintal and Geoffrey Emmanuel finished in that order on the FIM Moto3-spec NSF 250R bikes in the Idemitsu Honda India Talent Cup One-Make Championship after favourites, Md Mikail (Chennai), winner of Race-1 yesterday, and Kritik Vasant Habib (Gadag, Karnataka) retired early in the eight-lap race.

Mikail crashed at the start, while Habib too went off in the third lap.

Results (Provisional): National Championship:
Pro-Stock 301-400cc (Race 2, 8 laps):
Pro-Stock 200-300cc (Race 2, 8 laps):
Pro-Stock 165cc (Race 2, 8 laps):
Novice Stock 165cc (Race 2, 6 laps):
Girls (Stock 165cc, 5 laps):
One-Make Championship: Idemitsu Honda India Talent Cup
Honda NSF 250R (Race 2, 8 laps):
Honda CBR 150 (Race 2, 6 laps):
TVS Open (Apache RTR 310, Race 2, 8 laps):
Novice (Apache RTR 200, Race 2, 6 laps):

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First Published: Jul 07 2019 | 7:10 PM IST

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