Vishnu clinches JK Tyre Racing Championship

Vishnu Prasad claimed the JK Tyre Racing Championship for the second year in a row after winning the Premier race two, here today.
Prasad ended the championship with 104 points as he left behind Akhil Rabindra (88) and Shanmugam (55).
The final day's proceedings began with second race of the JK Racing India Series, formerly known as Formula BMW. With track deemed far from ideal, the race began under safety car since the most powerful cars in the championship went out on slick tyres.
As the cars lined up on the grid, all eyes were focused on the title contenders Vishnu and Akhil Rabindra apart from Armaan Ebrahim, who took part as guest driver and started right from the back of the grid.

Once the safety car pulled into the pits, caution was thrown to winds as the leading duo pulled away from the rest of the field and Ebrahim started working his way up from the back of the chasing pack.
A couple of laps in the race, Prasad managed to find his way past Rabindra to take decisive lead. Meanwhile, Ebrahim made short work of rest of the field before he started hunting down Prasad.

At turn four, he went past Prasad to stay in lead to the chequered flag. Being a guest driver, his win didn't count towards final classification, which meant Prasad took second win in the premier class for the second time over the weekend.

Rabindra managed to hold on to his second place despite coming under pressure from Krishnaraj Mahadik in the last part of the race.
In race three of the JK Racing India Series, Ebrahim took his third win of the weekend in a row. However, as per the rules of series, the first place on the podium went to Akhil Rabindra.
The Bengaluru based driver was made to work very hard for his first win of the weekend by both Kumar and Prasad, who finished in second and third places respectively.
In the Volkswagen Polo R Cup, Ameya Bafna, who won the second race on Saturday, emerged as the winner in the final race of the season.

Karthik Tharani, who waged a grim battle with the winner till the end, had to settle for second place.
Lee Keshav Gupta, who started the weekend as one of the championship contenders, came home in third place after a forgettable race one.