Chennai II Super Sport: TVS' Ahamed, Jagan share wins

TVS’ Ahamed claimed win in Race 1 of the Super Sport category after taking the lead on Lap 2 from an ailing Racr’s Rajini Krishnan.

The veteran Krishnan retired on Lap 3 with Ahamed winning by a comfortable margin over Honda’s Sarath Kumar.

The Asia Road Racing Championship rider had Racr’s Deepak Ravikumar on his tail all through the race, but the Honda rider managing to hold on second.

Kannan Subramanian led TVS teammate Harry Sylvester in the five finishers in the category.

Championship leader Jagan Kumar’s weekend got from bad to worse after he crashed out on Lap 1. Earlier, the Chennai rider was disqualified from qualifying after he put his TVS RTR on pole.

In the Pro Stock category, Kannan K came from third to win the race beating Racr duo of Dinesh Kumar and Prabhu in Race 1.

The Hondas of Rajiv Sethu and Hari Krishnan who started the race 1-2, only managed seventh and eighth in the six-lap race.

Jagan Kumar wins Race 2

Jagan Kumar

Photo by: MMSC

After having a crash in Race 1 of the weekend, Jagan came back nicely in the second race taking victory on his TVS RTR machinery.

The Chennai rider was comfortably ahead of Honda's Sarath Kumar with Ravikumar in the Racr's Yamaha bike completing the top three.

Things reversed on Sunday as Sylvester led TVS teammate Subramaniam in fourth and fifth respectively.

Mathana Kumar in the Honda rounded off the six finishers after Race 1 winner Ahamed crashed out along with Rajini Krishnan on the first lap itself.

Meanwhile in the Pro Stock category, Honda's Ten10 Racing team fought back with Sethu claiming win as teammate Krishnan finishing third.

Sandwiched in between the Honda duo was Racr's Prabhu, who managed to keep Krishnan behind by just 0.108s.