National Drag Racing: Triple win for Bengaluru boy Hemanth Mudappa from Mantra Racing.

Chennai, July 8: Bengaluru’s Hemanth Mudappa scored a hat-trick of wins in three different categories to dominate the first round of the MMSC fmsci Indian National Drag Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Sunday.

Mudappa was the quickest in the premier Super Sport Unrestricted class while also topping in the 1051cc and Above, and the 851-1050cc categories.

The results (Provisional):

Super Sport Unrestricted: Hemanth Mudappa (Bengaluru) (08.589secs); 2. Hafizullah Khan (Bengaluru) (08.598); 3. Manohar BN (Bengaluru) (9.285).

4-Stroke – 1051cc and Above: 1. Hemanth Mudappa (Bengaluru) (08.762); 2. Hafizullah Khan (Bengaluru) (09.063).

851-1050cc: 1. Hemanth Mudappa (Bengaluru) (08.538); 2. Anosh Khumbatta (Mumbai) (08.987); 3. Manohar BN (Bengaluru) (09.252).

361-550cc: 1. Aswin Kumar R (Chennai) (12.903); 2. Kevin Seetharaman (Hyderabad) (13.238); 3. Antony Peter (Coimbatore) (13.350).

Up to 165cc: 1. Jagan Kumar (Chennai) (14.210); 2. Aravind Ganesh (Chennai) (14.482); 3. Gowtham R (Bengaluru) (15.096). 166-225cc: 1. Harshil Thakur (Mumbai) (14.536); 2. Vaibhav Mathre (Mumbai) (14.657); 3. Sameer Ali (Mumbai) (15.103).

2-Stroke – Up to 130cc: 1. Hussain Khan (Mumbai) (14.409); 2. Aravind Ganesh (Chennai) (14.595); 3. Syed Nadeem (Bengaluru) (14.598). 131-165cc: Hussain Khan (Mumbai) (12.706); 2. Md Touheed (Bengaluru) (13.310); 3. Aiyaz (Bengaluru) (13.337).