Prasad clean-sweep headlines second round of JK Tyre Championship, Maini impresses

Nineteen-year-old Vishnu Prasad took a clean sweep of victories in the three races of the JK Racing India Series (JKRIS) at the second round of the JK Tyre Racing Championship at Coimbatore's Kari Motor Speedway today.

The second round saw drastic swings in form as winner of all three races at the previous round, Akhil Khushlani, failed to make it to the podium for any of the races featuring the Formula BMW Pacific cars that make up the grid.

Fifteen-year-old Arjun Maini and nineteen-year-old Chittesh Mandody took the second and third spots on the podium in all three races behind Prasad, with Maini almost stealing a win in the final race of the weekend.

In the Volkswagen Polo R Cup class, Prashanth Tharani and South Africa's Jeffrey Kruger swapped the top two spots of the podium amongst themselves in the two races of the weekend.

Last round's race winner Rahil Noorani failed to make it to the podium after he was handed a post-race penalty of 20 seconds for making a jump start in the second race of the one-make series.

The Formula LGB4 races saw Sarosh Hataria and Prasad share the honours on the first day of the weekend on Saturday before the third race on Sunday was red flagged in the closing stages after M D Tushar had a fiery crash when he lost control of his car and hit a concrete wall on the exit of the first right-left series of corners after the first corner.

The crash occured in the closing stages and Tushar was unhurt. Hataria took the chequered flag to take his second win of the weekend after Prasad, Saran Vikram and Ameya Bafna all were forced to retire from the race due to incidents unrelated to Tushar's.