Action packed day for Honda racers

It proved to be an exciting start to the Round 2 of National Racing Championship which got underway at the Madras Motor Race Track here today.
Soundari from Prolap Racing Team, Chennai produced a clinical display to emerge victorious at the second round of the Honda All Ladies Race at the Round 2 of Honda All Ladies race.
Soundari clocked an overall timing of 00:09.47.668 minutes over the 4 lap race, to take the top-honours. Pooja Ajit Dabhi from Pune clocked 00:09.48.009 minutes to finish second. Aishwarya P from Bangalore followed closely to finish third by clocking 00:09:48:316 minutes.
The super women in the Ladies Race garnered a lot of interest as eight racers across India competed for top honours in the second round of the first ever full-fledged season for women riders at the Honda One make Race.

Congratulating the winners, Prabhu Nagaraj, vice president, Customer Service, HMSI said, "Our women racers have come of age and it was really heartening to see them fight it out with such intensity. This augurs very well for women in motorsports and makes motorcycle racing a truly diverse and equal opportunity sport. My hearties congratulations to Soundari, Pooja, Aishwarya who took to the grid today. I am confident that we will witness some stellar performance by these ladies as the season proceeds."
The grid for Honda's flagship CBR 250R Team Championship saw India's top notch 12 racers. Team Ten10 Racing were the early pace setters in the CBR 250R Open category as its riders Mathana Kumar and Rajiv Sethu clinched the first 2 podiums in the Race 1.