Mumbai riders top at 'The Valley Run 2018'

Mumbai riders proved to be dominating force, but it was Hyderabad-based Mohammed Riyaz who stole the show on the quarter-mile track of the Aamby Valley air-strip in the sixth edition of 'The Valley Run 2018' recently held near here.

On a day when Mumbai grabbed six of the nine events in the two-wheelers category, it was Riyaz who finished with the distinction of 'fastest time', clocking 9.686 seconds on his Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycle in the M9 Class (851cc to 1050cc) category, a media release said today.

The other class to go out of Mumbai's hands was the O2 (Open Class) Foreign (551cc & Above, Unrestricted) which was claimed by Sundeep Singh Sokhi, who clocked 9.917s.

Pravin Jadhav of Pune claimed the high capacity P-Class (Muscle Bikes) on his Ducati Diavel super bike with an 11.746 second effort (elapsed time).

The Mumbai winners included Iqbal Shaikh (M6 - Class from 361 to 550cc (Indian Produced) - 4-Stroke); Zarvan Batliwala (M7: Class 551 to 850cc (Sport - Inline 3/4) 4-Stroke); Surya Servai (M8: Class from 649 to850cc (Single Twin/L) 4-Stroke); Zahir Shah (M10: Class 1051cc & Above ? 4-Stroke); Sachin Khengle (W1 - Indian Fastest Wheeler Class); and Nadeem Shah (W2 Foreign Fastest Wheelie Class), the release added.