Prasad tops among seniors in JK Tyre Rotax national karting

COIMBATORE - Vishnu Prasad, Parth Ghorpade and Tarun Reddy topped their respective categories in the second round of the JK Tyre Rotax National Karting championship here Sunday.

After a disappointing Round 1, Chennais Prasad (seniors), of Team Meco Racing was in his elements with an excellent start for an early lead that he retrained till the finish. Kolhapurs Chittesh Mandody from Mohite Racing finished second while veteran Mumbais Ameya Walavalkar, also from Mohite Racing, came third.

In the junior category, Team Amaron Pro Racing with Meco made a podium sweep. Kolhapurs Ghorpade (juniors) won the race after having built up a decent lead. Placed in second position was Bangalore’s Nikhil P. Kashyap, who managed to hold off the threat from Chennai’s Shashank Ravishankar.

Chennai schoolboy, 11-year old Reddy (Micro) from Team Meco Racing continued his domination to post his second successive win of the season. Staving off a spirited effort from Kolhapurs Dhruv Mohite of Team Mohite Racing Academy, Tarun snatched the victory by a whisker to win the 12-lap race in the Micro Max category.

Results:

Seniors (20 laps): 1. Vishnu Prasad 13:24:160; 2. Chittesh Mandody 13:28:608;

3. Ameya Walavalkar 13:31:430.

Juniors (18 laps): 1. Parth Ghorpade 11:54:466; 2. Nikhil P. Kashyap 12:00:761;

3. Shashank Ravishankar 12:01:590.

Micro Max (12 laps): Tarun Reddy 10:01:827; 2. Dhruv Mohite 10:01:968; 3. Surya Raghuraman 10:20:968.