Fellow Malaysian Mervyn Lim (Hamizan Bin Abdul Hamid), with 1,824 points gained from Special Stage (SS), is in second spot, helping Force Motors hold on to the top two positions of the international off-road motorsport event.
Kabir Waraich (Yuvraj Tiwana) of Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh, currently the top Indian in the competition, is in third position with 1,680 points.
However, the day's star performer turned out to be Goan driver Cedrick Jordan DaSilva (Floyd Preston), who jumped from sixth to fourth spot with a total score of 1,648 points.
While Tan maintained a good average of above 50 points in each of the six SS of the Terminator leg, Mervyn showed some brilliant performance with 90 points in two of the SS and a perfect 100 in two other SS.
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Waraich had a bad start of the day with the tyre of his Maruti Gypsy coming off in SS19, but made up for it later with 90 points in two of the SS and 95 in two other tasks.
The Terminator leg of India's only international off- road motorsport event took place in Costi village of Goa and tested the competitors on various parameters, including the articulation of vehicle, their understanding of how to use the recovery equipment to cross hurdles and how to make use of the natural surroundings to progress in the competition.
The Terminator leg also witnessed the inaugural RFC India Media Challenge in which representatives of 11 media houses from across the country participated. They were made to complete two Special Stages, which were essentially speed tasks, in a Polaris RZR800.
The last leg of RFC India, the Twilight Zone, will take place in Morlem before the winner is announced. The best Indian driver of the meet will get an automatic free entry to RFC Mother Event to be in Malaysia later this year.