A Fun Sideshow: One Make Race By Honda & TVS

All major races are accompanied by support races, and for the T1 Prima Truck Racing Championship, the Honda One Make Race as well as the TVS One make Race proved to be very exciting support races for the debut event. This was the first round of the calendar year for both races and the shining star was a young rider from Trichy named Mathana Kumar who captured two wins and two podium finishes throughout the weekend. For the Honda One Make Race there was the CBR 250cc category and the CBR 150cc Novice category, which has been started this year to promote motor sports amongst the youth of India. In the 250cc category there were 10 expert riders from across the country including former Moto 3 rider Sarath Kumar. TVS had its Apache 180cc category.

HONDA

In Race One of the CBR250cc category Sarath Kumar started on pole, and he comfortably converted that into a first place finish 4 seconds ahead of Mathana Kumar. Coming in 5 seconds later in third place was Kamlesh Kumar. The next race saw the CBR 150cc bikes take to the track. This race had a more exciting finish as S Kannan managed to cross the finish line just 0.673 seconds ahead of Malsawm Dawngliana to claim first place.  Shreyas Sannake finished 7 seconds behind Dawngliana to complete the podium. Race Two of the 150cc category was also a nail biter finish as the front three riders battled it out. E Saravanan and Dangliana almost finished side-by-side as they crossed the line, but Saravanan won the race by 0.341 seconds, while third place went to Vivek Kumar, who was also close to the top two and finished 1 second behind. Young rider Sumit Lucas Toppo won Race Two of the CBR Honda-250 category with a convincing display, while the battle for second saw Mathana Kumar just holding off race 1 winner Sarath Kumar in a thrilling battle.

TVS

Although Mathana failed to grab a first place victory in the Honda races he was very successful in the TVS Apache RTR 180 category as he won both races comfortably. In the first race Mathana took a comfortable lead and finished ahead of B Lalruatshanga and Arvind Ganesh. The final race of the weekend was the TVS Apache RTR 180 and again it was Mathana Kumar who raced brilliantly to snatch another win. While Mathana won comfortably and stayed well ahead of the pack, the battle for second place was very intense and there were 5 riders fighting for the last two podium spots. It was Shyam Shankar who managed to stay ahead of the fight and finished in second place, while B Lalruatshanga followed very close behind finishing in 3rd place. Arun Muthukrishnan and Arvind Ganesh also followed closely behind to finish fourth and fifth respectively.