Starting from the pole position, Abkhil Rabindra took the chequered flag in the Race 1 of Round 3 of the JK Tyre Racing Championship at the Buddh International Circuit here today.
The Bangalore driver Rabindra drove confidently to beat Mumbai driver Rahil Noorani by 1.507seconds.
Noorani was home in 23:48.582, while Ananth Shanmugam finished third in 23:49.981.
The win helped Rabindra to close in the gap on Vishnu Prasad in the overall drivers' standings in the FB02 class for their Team Euro International cars.
"It was a good race. Got a good lap in qualifying which put me in P1 which was half a second less than Vishnu's. In the first two laps it was difficult and Vishnu was next to me and I went in with a defensive set of mind but in the end I pulled through and eventually got a difference of around 20-30 meters till the end," said Rabindra.
Guest drivers, Aarman Ebrahim and Aditya Patel drove along with the young drivers to motivate them but they failed to finish due to technical hitch.
Kolhapur driver Chittesh Mandody of Meco Racing won the Race 1 of Formula LGB 4 beating Dark Don's TS Diljith to open his account earlier in the day.
Diljith, however, got his due when he won the Race 2 leaving Mandody to settle for the Runner-up position, but this made the drivers' championship in Formula LGB interesting.
