New Delhi, 22 June 2015 : The newly formed Team Yokohama has started its campaign for the Calendar Year 2015 for the FMSCI Indian Rally championship with a winning note.
Team Yokohama’s Rahul Kanthraj and his co-driver Vivek Bhatt, driving a Mitsubishi Cedia for Team Yokohama, has won the IRC 2000cc category (01:38:06) at the Mahindra Adventure Rally of Maharashtra.
Mr. Sanjay Chatterjee, General Manager Sales & Marketing, Yokohama India said “We recently announced TEAM YOKOHAMA for the year 2015. A win at this early a stage is very encouraging for us. Last year we had a podium finish in almost all the races and this year too, the start has been on a winning note”
While speaking at the occasion Team Yokohama’s lead driver Rahul Kanthraj, said “We have started the year with a win, and that too with a lead of 3 minutes 46 seconds. We hope to continue in this form for the entire season in similar fashion”.
Participating in the 2000 CC Category, the duo of Rahul Kanthraj & Vivek Bhatt started rallying in the year 2000 and has participated in over 75 rallies. Together they have won 4 Group and National championships and finished runners up on 4 other occasions.
Team Yokohama also has Driver – Karna Kadur + Co-Driver M Chandrashekar competing in 1600 CC on a Volkswagen Polo. Yokohma also supports Mr Prithvi Domnic + Co-Driver Pruthvi Ithal in 2000 CC Mr. Domnic is a Yokohama YCN dealer in Bangalore as well as a Motorsports enthusiast.
For Yokohama, Motorsports is today part of its philosophy. The Tyre major has been part of Motorsports events the world over and has completed 10 years as a sole Tyre supplier to WTCC, an FIA World Championship.
From 2008 -2010, Yokohama had been the official tyre partner to Red Rooster racing for INRC events. The results during that partnership were encouraging. Since 2008 year after year Yokohama tyre supported cars have always found place on the Podium at Raid De Himalaya, one of the toughest Rallies
Globally other than replacement tyres business, Yokohama tyres are original equipment suppliers to many top of the line car manufacturers like Audi, Honda, Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, Suzuki and Toyota.
