Nayan takes lead in championship table with win in round 3

Nayan Chatterjee of Rayo Racing took a narrow one-point lead over Vishnu Prasad of Meco Racing after triumphing in the Senior Max category in Round 3 of the JK Tyre-FMSCI National Karting Championship, here today.
Kush Maini of Dark Don Racing won the Junior Max while Pradyumna Vipul Danigund of Mohite's Racing captured the tile in Micro Max category at Kari Motor Speedway.
In the Senior Max category, Nayan won the toughest race of the Round after beating top racers such as teammate and defending champion Ameya Bafna and Vishnu.
With this victory, Nayan toppled Vishnu in the championship table as he moved to 255 points, just one ahead of Vishnu (254). Ameya is at third position with 244 points.

"Today's race was very tough and there were lots of ups and downs. It was very difficult to maintain the position as I was getting constant threat from other racers. I just maintained my racing line and patiently waiting others to make mistakes. I am very much happy with my first place podium finish," Nayan, who also won Round one, said after the race.
Birthday boy Vishnu, who started third position, took early lead by overtaking pole position holder Chittesh S Mandody (Mohite's Racing) and Ameya in first few seconds.

In the next lap, Chittesh took an attempt to overtake Vishnu but he lost control of his kart, which cost him the podium finish. In the battle for 3rd position, Dhruv S Mohite (Mohite's Racing), who started at 4th, was overtaken by Nayan Chatterjee (Rayo Racing) after few initial laps.

In the 6th lap, Ameya was trying to overtake Vishnu and Vishnu was fighting to save his leading position. But he failed to restrict Ameya, who became the new race leader.
Moreover, in this short period of time, Dhruv emerged from behind and pushed Vishnu further down at 3rd position. In 22nd lap, Dhruv collided with race leader Ameya and both went out of the track. Seeing this opportunity, Nayan overtook Vishnu and claimed the first position. Dhruv recovered quickly and re-joined the race at 2nd position ahead of Vishnu, while Ameya managed to continue his race at 4th position.