VW Polo R Cup 2011 – Round 3 – Chennai MMRT

Race 1
Vishnu Prasad takes a clean victory over Ajay and Raahil
Vishnu Prasad who recently celebrated his birthday gave himself a good present by taking a neat win from start to finish taking with a commanding lead before the safety car came out on lap 8. On restart Vishnu managed to get some cushion again from Ajay Kini and won the race. Ajay Kini managed to get ahead of the rest of the pack in early laps and finished 2nd. There was a challenge for third from Oshan but Rahil managed to hang on to the final podium position. Alisha Abdullah resisted the challenge from Vidit Jain till the line for 7th.

Race 2
Goan boy Hede wins first ever race while Championship leader Vishnu is black flagged
Vidit Jain started on pole for the reverse grid format (based on race 1 results) but got challenged by Prateek on the first corner but Prateek managed to get the better of Vidit and get a cushion over others. Behind these actions Avdumber Hede who started from fourth was poised to take it to the top by overtaking the top order and managing to close on the lead Prateek. On lap 5 Avdumber took the lead from Prateek and managed to pull out a comfortable lead.

Meanwhile championship leader and race 1 winner Vishnu Prasad who started from 8th was running 6th had a collision causing a hanging back bumper. Vishnu was flagged to come into the pit with a yellow and black penalty flag which he ignored for 3laps and he was finally shown a black flag. Mihir Dharkar had a run off moment and was on the dirt and managed to rejoin at the back and finish the race. Donovan Vaz too had spin in C1 and managed to rejoin.