Published>Sun, Jun 20 10 06:37 PM
Chennai, June 20 (IANS) Sailesh Bolisetti, the 21-year old from Visakhapatnam, gave further evidence of his talent in saloon car racing with a splendid double in the first round of the 13th JK Tyre National Racing Championship here Sunday.
Unlike most in his age group, Sailesh prefers touring cars to formula racing and having won the opening round of the Volkswagen Polo Cup championship in Pune last month, the youngster delivered yet another top result this afternoon.
Sporting the livery of RAD Racing, managed by former national champion Radha Selvaraj, Sailesh was in a league of his own as he powered his way through the corners with the ease of a veteran, though he has only completed two full racing seasons.
'I took to racing only after completing my studies and I decided on touring car racing to formula cars because I feel more comfortable in the vehicle. My aim is to win the Polo Cup championship and race abroad. My ultimate goal is to participate in the Le Mans series,' the modest youngster told IANS.
As well as Sailesh drove, veteran M. Sivaramakrishnan, struggling with an ill-handling Esteem that was patched together overnight following a major flip in qualifying session yesterday, came up with a fine performance to finish fifth in the first race and fourth in the second.
Another notable drive came from Siddharth Kishore of Performance Racing who had a fourth and second in the two races despite gear-box issues.
Meanwhile, action in the Formula LGB Swift was along predictable lines though the two races had different winners in Ameya Walavalkar of TVS Girling and team-mate Akhil Devaraj.
Ameya, an experienced karter, won the first race quite comfortably, but spun in the very second lap of the second race to lose track position, while Devaraj forged ahead to take the honours.
In the first race, S. Narendran of TVS Girling, who had finished third, was docked 30 seconds penalty and slid to seventh spot following a successful protest by Goutham Parekh for 'pushing' at Turn 3 of the sixth lap. Ajay Kini (Wallace Sports), who had finished fourth, was thus elevated to third spot.
Results:
Saloon Cars (Race 1 - 10 laps): Sailesh Bolisetti (RAD Racing) 1 (20mins, 52.0secs); B Vijaykumar (Prime Racing) 2 (21:12.8); Vidya Prakash (Prime Racing) 3 (21:14.8). Race 2 -- Sailesh Bolisetti (RAD Racing) 1 (20:52.339); Siddharth Kishore (Performance Racing) 2 (21:25.814); Raj Virdhan (Prime Racing) 3 (21:29.922).
Formula LGB Swift (Race 1 - 10 laps): Ameya Walavalkar (TVS Girling) 1 (20:04.621); Gokul Krishna (Mars Racing) 2 (20:13,329); Ajay Kini 3 (20:14.459). Race 2 - Akhil Devarag (TVS Girling) 1 (20:02.910); Ajay Kini (Wallace Sports) 2 (20:18.153); Goutham Parekh (Wallace Sports) 3 (20:18.232).
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