Day of doubles at JK Tyre national racing

In extremely hot and humid conditions Ashwin Sundar of Team SpeedNK Racing yet again underlined his superior pace and skills by achieving a double in the Formula RolonChevrolet class in the fifth round of the JK Tyre National Racing Championship on SundayAshwin the 20year old from Chennai who had cut his racing teeth as a 13year old driving a Maruti Esteem car in the Saloon car races at the MMRT track here was in a league of his own from start to finish to replicate his commanding win in the first race Saturday night That Ashwin was class apart from the rest was very apparent as he attacked the corners with confidence and his car had the straight line speed to run away from the field His experience in the German championship has obviously made him a far better racing driver and the rest struggled to keep pace with him Much of the action came further down the field where Sarosh Hataria and Saran Vikram were involved in wheeltowheel battle for the third spot behind Ashwin and Gaurav Dalal After exchanging positions over the first couple of laps Hataria settled in front of Vikram and defended well to come in third Elsewhere Ajay Kini of Wallace Sports also completed a double in the Formula LGB Swift class with yet another fine run However as in the first race Sundays outing had its share of complaints following an incident at the start involving Gautam Parekh Wallace Sports and TVS Girlings Sudarshana Rao the championship leader Rao complained against Parekh for impeding him at the start but the Stewards dismissed it as a racing incident and allowed the positions to stand The decision understandably raised some hackles in the TVS Girling team whose driver Narendran was docked a 30second penalty following a similar incident and lost his third place finish to Prithveen Rajan of Wallace Sports You cannot have different interpretations of similar incidents and our team lost a second place finish at a time when we are looking at winning the drivers championship said TVS Girling team official Vivekanandan The tale of double continued in the other two classes the Super Bikes where Rohit Giri from Bangalore swept the honours Experts category as did veteran B Vijay Kumar of Prime Racing in the Super Saloons both dominating from start to finish