Date:03/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/03/stories/2007120360132200.htm

Sport - Racing : Motor

First victory for Lohit Urs

PUNE: Team MRF’s Lohit Urs and co-driver Jaidas Menon, riding on a one minute, 52 seconds overnight lead, notched up the first overall win in MAI’s Indian National Rally Championship 2007. The winner extended the lead to two minutes and 15 seconds over Amitrajit Ghosh (co-driver Sourabh Choudhary) in the WISA Rally of Maharashtra on Sunday.

Provisional results: Overall: Lohit Urs/ Jaidas Menon (Fiesta, Team MRF) 1 hour: 11 mins.39 secs; Amitrajit Ghosh/ Sourabh Choudhary (Esteem) 1:13.54; Arjun Rao Aroor/ Satish Kumar (Baleno, Team MRF) 1:15.53; Prithvi Dominic/ Jeevarathinam (Esteem) 1:17.02; Sanket Shanbhag/ Ramesh Shanbhag (Baleno) 1:17.13. 1600 cc: Arjun Rao Aroor/ Satish Kumar (Baleno, Team MRF) 1:15.53; Sanket Shanbhag/ Ramesh Shanbhag (Baleno) 1: 17.13; Rahul Kanthraj/ Vivek Bhatt (Baleno) 1:23.09. 1400cc: Amitrajit Ghosh/ Sourabh Choudhary (Esteem) 1:13.54; Prithvi Dominic/ Jeevarathinam (Esteem) 1:17.02; S. Sujay/ M. Chandrasekhar (Esteem) 1:19.43. Rally Star Cup: Mazdayar Vatcha/ Madhu K.C (Esteem) 1:20.25; Byram Godrej/ Anjay Kapadia (Esteem) 1:20.49; Abhijeet Pai/ Prajal Pai (Esteem) 1:20.52.Gypsy Cup: Suresh Rana/ H.S. Bawa 1:23.37; Surendra Babu/ Vinay Shaker 1:23.30; Kamaljit Virdi/ Manoj Kumar 1:31.47. — Special Correspondent