MRF National Motorcycle Championship – Round 4 – Chennai MMRT
Indian Superbikes – Group A 600cc

Race 1
It was again the experienced Rajini on pole alongside Deepak and the injured Gautham Mayilvagan who is still recovering from a broken collarbone. The second row had ex champion Rohit Giri in 4th and the 125cc GP boy Sarath in 5th, who returned to the National racing fray for the first time since his GP debut.

At the lights, Rajini took off clean and started to pull away from Deepak and Gautham.Gautham was closely tailed by Rohit and by lap 2 Rohit got ahead of his team mate and developed a slight cushion. Meanwhile Gautham who is still braving his recent collarbone fracture and racing with pain killers, managed to close on Rohit with 2 laps to go and ultimately got ahead on the last lap for a superb third place finish. Sarath finished a lonely 5th.

Race 2
The second race started again with same grid positions of qualifying and once again Rajini made a good start to lead into the first corner followed by Deepak and Gautham. Deepak managed to cling to Rajini with a fastest lap of the race but Rajini slowly increased the gap lap by lap. Meanwhile Rohit Giri over took Gautham to third. Suddenly on lap 4 Gautham drops down to 6th and Sarath too drops off due to some problem. Rajini comfortably won the race 9secs ahead of Deepak and Rohit grabbed the final podium.Prithvi came in 4th followed by Shabaz in 5th as Gautham and Sarath did not finish.