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Dominant Bolisetti wins Vento cup race one

Sailesh Bolisetti took a lights-to-flag victory at the final round of Volkswagen Vento Cup, beating championship contenders Anindith Reddy and Karminder Singh in the first race.

Sailesh Bolisetti

Sailesh Bolisetti

Nikolaz Godet

Raghav Sharma
Karminder Singh
Ishaan Dodhiwala
Starting grid
Sailesh Bolisetti
Volkswagen Vento in parc ferme
Start action
Pradeep Rao Vaidyam
Start action
Anindith Reddy

Having taken pole position by a meagre 0.050 seconds, Bolisetti marched ahead of the pack, winning the race by nearly seven seconds.

Bolisetti also clocked the fastest lap of the race clocking 2m27.423s, the only driver to dip into the 2m27's.

With the 27-year-old a class apart from the rest, Reddy and Singh were left to squabble for second position, with the former emerging ahead to extend his championship lead.

Guest driver Advait Deodhar, finished an impressive fourth, just outside the podium positions keeping Ishaan Dodhiwala at bay.

his chances of winning the title look bleak as he finished a disappointing fifth, ahead of another guest racer Dhruv Behl.

Raghav Sharma and Prabhanjan Paruchuri were classified seventh and eighth while Volkswagen Polo Cup Chinese racers Zhang Quan Shang and Yang Shuo rounded-off the top 10.

The sister duo of Neha Dabas and Ria Dabas finished 17th and 19th respectively.

The winner of the inaugural Vento Cup season will be announced on Sunday after the completion of the remaining two races.

Pos.

Driver

Time/Gap

1

Sailesh Bolisetti

19m44.538s

2

Anindith Reddy

6.679s

3

Karminder Singh

9.219s

4

Advait Deodhar

12.440s

5

Ishaan Dodhiwala

24.511s

6

Dhruv Behl

24.962s

7

Raghav Sharma

27.131s

8

Prabhanj Paruchuri

29.501s

9

Zhang Quan Shang

32.233s

10

Yang Shuo

34.397s

11

Pradeep Rao Vaidyam

35.577s

12

Rithvik Thomas

40.496s

13

Sahil Gahuri

40.966s

14

Amit A Mete

50.414s

15

Harkrishan Wadia

41.421s

16

Pratik Sonawane

52.163s

17

Neha Dabas

1m06.331s

18

Parth Wadia

1m18.232s

19

Ria Dabas

1m20.758s

20

Amit Patil

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