Satish-Savera combine top in Spice Cup

Kochi, Sep 9 - Satish Gopalkrishnan and his wife Savera D’Souza from Bangalore staged a remarkable recovery to move from third position overnight to first and win the Mahindra Spice Cup TSD rally that concluded here Sunday.

In second place were Ganesh Murthy and his navigator Nagarajan, just six seconds behind the leaders while Sanjay Takale and Mohd Mustafa were third a further 11 seconds adrift.

Provisional classification (after Leg-3):

Overall / SUV Open: Satish Gopalkrishnan / Savera D’Souza 1 (1min, 16secs); Ganesh Murthy / Nagarajan 2 (0:01:22); Sanjay Takale / Mohd Mustafa 3 (0:01:33).

SUV OE: B Suresh Kumar / Bhaskar Gupta 1 (0:27:29); Saju George / Shymon George 2 (0:33:31); Kiran JN / Balaji BT 3 (1:10:09).

Car Open: T Shashi Kumar / Prakash 1 (0:02:32); AK Ramesh / Natarajan 2 (0:05:05); Gopalkrishnan / V Sekhar 3 (0:17:32).

Car OE: Venu Ramesh / Shaktivel 1 (0:02:32); Wilson / Kuriakose Elias 2 (0:05:53); Vijaykumar / Murugan 3 (0:20:41).

Corporate: Phlip Balklin / David Sharon 1 (0:05:10); Sudharshan / Gunashekar 2 (0:15:39); Harsha Vardhan / Parthiban 3 (0:43:01).

Couple: Mudra Dodhiwala / Sandeep Dodhiwala 1 (0:04:34); Zahir Shah Manipady / Nazima Manipady 2 (0:27:03); Benny Verghese / Maria Verghese 3 (01:11:26).

All Ladies: Prathima Naidu / Lina Shetty 1 (01:15:01).