Mumbai’s Aditya Patnaik led a 1-2-3 finish for Rayo Racing while Bengaluru’s Ishaan Madesh and Darsh Nawargaria topped their respective categories in the fourth round of the Meco-Fmsci Rotax Max National Karting Championship 2023 which concluded at the Meco Kartopia circuit here on Sunday.
Aditya Patnaik and fellow-Mumbai racers, Raiden Samervel and Krish Gupta completed the podium in the Senior Max category that witnessed close racing. Earlier, Akshat Mishra (Peregrine Racing) took the honours in the pre-final ahead of Abhay M (Birel Art India) and Adithya Arvind (Peregrine Racing).
In the Junior Max final, Ishaan Madesh continued his dominating run with a fluent victory albeit in a close finish where he held off fellow-Bengalurean Nikhilesh Raju (Peregrine Racing) and Pune’s Arafath Sheikh (Crest Motorsport). Ishaan had won the pre-final earlier and was unstoppable through the weekend.
Bengaluru’s Darsh Nawargaria (MSPORT) topped the Micro Max final with a comfortable win, sparing 4.5 seconds to second-placed Hamza Balasinorwala (Rayo Racing) from Mumbai while Chennai’s Rivaan Dev Preetam finished third. Darsh had earlier won the pre-final ahead of Rivaan and Mumbai’s Danish Dalmiya (Rayo Racing).
The final round of the championship will be held at the same venue on Oct 26-28.
The results:
Senior Max – Final (16 laps): 1. Aditya Patnaik (Mumbai, Rayo Racing) (16:12.122); 2. Raiden Samervel (Mumbai, Rayo Racing) (16:12.703); 3. Krish Gupta (Mumbai, Rayo Racing) (16:13.864). Pre-final (14 laps): 1. Akshat Mishra (Bengaluru, Peregrine Racing) (13:17.430); 2. Abhay M (Bengaluru, Birel Art India) (13:17.758); 3. Adithya Arvind (Chennai, Peregrine Racing).
Junior Max – Final (14 laps): 1. Ishaan Madesh (Bengaluru, Peregrine Racing) (13:01.609); 2. Nikhilesh Raju (Bengaluru, Peregrine Racing) (13:02.569); 3. Arafath Sheikh (Pune, Crest Motorsport) (13:05.829). Pre-final (12 laps): 1. Ishaan Madesh (11:06.427); 2. Hunner Singh (Gurugram, Birel Art India) (11:07.399); 3. Arafath Sheikh (11:08.532).Micro Max – Final (12 laps): 1. Darsh Nawargaria (Bengaluru, MSPORT) (12:05.633); Hamza Balasinorwala (Mumbai, Rayo Racing) (12:10.169); 3. Rivaan Dev Preetam (Chennai, MSPORT) (12:11.167). Pre-final (10 laps): 1. Darsh Nawargaria (10:11.653); 2. Rivaan Dev Preetam (10:14.215); 3. Danish Dalmiya (Mumbai, Rayo Racing).