Veer Patel wins Pune-leg with stunning show

The 2012 season of the National Supercross championship began with a bang, with Patel beating an established team of TVS Racing Bangalore as individual entrants made hay in the prime event.

Patel made sure that he was up to the task in beating the company-backed team.

For defending champion Aravind KP, it was bad luck as he made a messy start and was pushed to the last position in the Moto 1 before he fought his way back up to finish third. In Moto 2 also, Aravind's TVS bike was much slower than the Hondas of Patel and CD Jinan of Kerala, who finished in the second position behind the Baroda rider with 34 points.

 

Aravind, however, had the solace of winning the Indian Experts Group B class 3 event on his TVS RTR 160, collecting full 20 points. TVS Racing Bangalore made a clean sweep in this class as R Natraj and Harith Noah took up the second and third positions behind Aravind. PTI AH