Mumbai lad Fahad Kutty won the first race of the Indian Junior Touring Cars category ahead of S Feroze Khan and defending champion Diljith TS
The starting line-up for the first Polo R Cup race tomorrow will see Avdumber Hede taking pole position followed by A Sandeep Kumar, Anthony George, and JK Tyre driver Diego Duez.
Race 1 of the Indian Touring Cars Class was full of surprises after all four top qualifiers failed to make it to the podium in Round One of the 2012 championship.
Veteran racer Radha Selvarajan, who qualified in position one, had a great chance to open his account in style but for a technical failure that forced him to retire in the opening laps.
Defending champion and Coimbatore lad (Prime Racing) V Rajvirdhan did well to qualify for the race in position 2, and lead the race brilliantly for the next ten laps before retiring due to a technical failure. Qualifying for position 3, veteran racer B Vijaykumar received a five-grid penalty because of an engine change and was moved to position 8 on the grid.
Closely following Rajvirdhan for the major part of the race, it was Sivaramakrishnan's day when Rajvirdhan retired from the leading position thus giving him the lead. The Chennai driver finished the race with a total timing of 19:30:245 followed by C Rajaram (Prime Racing) in second place and Siddharth Kishore (Performance Racing) in third.
"I made a good start and have a reliable car that did well. We can now work hard for the forthcoming races," said Sivaramakrishnan.
