Chennai:Rajendra RE of Petronas TVS Racing team celebrated his 3rd win of the season to emerge overall winner at the MRF Mogrip National Rally Championship 2022, Round 5 that was held at Pune.
Defending National champion Rajendra started the first super special stage in style to take a lead of 11 seconds over his nearest compatriot Abdul Wahid Tanveer in the Super Bike Pro Expert Class-1, reports received here today said.
Abdul contested the second super special stage hard and gained the upper hand but could not beat Rajendra in the overall lead.
All eyes were on the third and final SS3. Unfortunately, the stage had to be cancelled due to force majeure as the stage would not have been completed in stipulated time.
Riding on her RTR200 Aishwarya >P.M won the Group ‘B’ Ladies Class in 00:35:29.335, she took overall lead of 00:01:34.105 over Privateer Fazeelaun who emerged runner up.
Another privateer from Pune, Deeksha Srivastava took the third position with a timing of 00:45:21.246.
Naresh V.S won the Class-6 Super Sport 550 Group-B on his Himalayan in 00:34:43.187. Yogesh V Mir from Miraj took second position in 00:41:48.530 Shamim Khan from Petronas TVS Racing took first position in Class-8Group-B Scooters upto 210 cc. He recorded a timing of 00:32:36.351.
Karthik.N took the second position and privateer Vankatesh Shetty from Mumbai took the third position.
