On day two of round three, there was tremendous fight in the the JK Racing India Series as championship leader Vishnu Prasad took a hard-earned victory over the winner of the first race, Arjun by a mere 1.3 seconds.
Mahaveer Rangunathan, who was penalised 30 seconds in the first race for making a jump start, claimed third position a further 6.8 seconds adrift of the race winner.
Now the championship winner will be decided in the concluding fourth round, which will also be decided at the Buddh International circuit in November.
Arjun made a great start going into the first corner, but by the time pack of cars came around to complete the first lap, Prasad, jumped the leader and opened up lead of few car lengths.
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Behind the race leader, Arjun and Chittesh, who started from sixth position on the grid, managed to slot into third place by the end of the first lap, kept the pressure up on the race leader.
Arjun grabbed the opportunity to dive on the inside of the hairpin leading to the 1.2km back straight managed to squeeze Vishnu off the racing line.
The pair made light contact but it was enough for Arjun to take the lead. Even before Visgnu could recover from the shock move, Mandody too pounced upon the chance to go past the Chennai driver.