Virdi, Tung win Force Gurkha RFC India 2016

Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh's Gurmeet Virdi and co-driver Kirpal Singh Tung have won the week-long Force Gurkha RFC India 2016, a 4X4 off-roading event with total score of 2177 points out of 2700.
Being the top Indian driver at the event, Gurmeet now gets a free automatic entry to RFC Malaysia 2016. This is the first time in the three editions of the India Edition of RFC so far that an Indian driver has secured the top slot.
In previous editions, Malaysian driver Tan Eng Joo (with Tan Choon Hong), representing Force Motors, was the winner.
Malaysian driver Merwyn Lim (with Hamizan Bin Abdul Hamid) of Force Motors secured the second slot this time with 2166 points while fellow Malaysian and Force Motors driver Tan Eng Joo (Tan Choon Hong) came in third 2111 points.

Kabir Waraich (Gagan Sachdeva) of Force Motors and Goan driver Cedrick Jordon DaSilva (Floyd Preston) were tied for the fourth position, both securing 1938 points.
An elated Gurmeet Virdi said, "The news is yet to sink in. The competition was extremely tough this year with neck to neck competition between the top 3-4 position holders."

Category-wise winners: Gurmeet Virdi (Kirpal Singh Tung) in up to 1610 cc Petrol or Diesel category, Merwyn Lim (Hamizan Bin Abdul Hamid) in 1611 to 2610 cc Diesel category, Northern India Offroad Club's Bijender Singh (Gajender Singh) in 1611 to 2610 cc Petrol category and Hyderabad's Dr Chaitanya Challa (Shabarish Jagarapu) in Above 2610 cc Petrol or Diesel category.

Lifetime Achievement Award went to veteran rallyist Jagat
Nanjappa, the Team Spirit Award to Mumbai's Team Fairmont, the Jungleman Award to Abinav Reddy Nukala and Laxmikanth Reddy Thota of Charminar Offroad Adventure Club, the Most Unique 4X4 Award to Vivek Kuriakosse (Ashok Kuriakosse) of Bangalore Off-road Drivers Association and the Environment Award to KTM Jeepers.
A special award was given to the Malaysians (Tan Eng Joo, Merwyn Lim, Tan Choon Hong and Hamizan Bin Abdul Hamid) for contributing significantly to upgrading the skills of Indian offroaders through their exemplary performance.
Another Special Award was given to Pune's Daulat Deepram Choudhary and his co-driver Jeet Tapaswi.

Ashish Gupta, Founder and Director of Cougar Motorsport, organizers of RFC India, said, "Level of competition and vehicle preparation that we saw this year is unlike anything I have seen before in India.