Asian Road Racing Championship round in Chennai

Finally there’s something for Indian bike racing aficionados to cheer about. The fourth round of the Petronas Asian Road Racing Championship will be held in the country. The earlier three races of the season took place at Malaysia, Japan and Indonesia in the month of April, May and June respectively. In each round, two races are held in the 600cc and 115cc engine (underbone) category. The fourth round is scheduled to take place from 3rd to 6th September at the Madras Motor Sports Club race track in Irungattukottai, Chennai.

Dilip Roggers, Preetham Dev Moses, and K.Rajni have reportedly confirmed participation in the 600cc class. India is set to host an international race event after more than a decade’s gap. The Petronas Asian Road Racing Championship is one of the important biking events in the Asian continent.

For passes contact:
Madras Motor Sports Club,
123/1, Guru Mansion,
TTK Road, Alwarpet,
Chennai 600 018
You can also drop in a mail at mmsc_chennai@yahoo.co.in or info@madrasmotorsports.in

Yamaha's sledge-hammer on Indian Motorsport

The  Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI), the National Sports Federation recognized by the Government of India and the International Federation viz. Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), has today announced that the Yamaha YZF-R15 has been homologated for motorsport purposes in India. The Technical Data Form has been approved and this gives racers to the permission to use the R15 the National Championship Motorsport events. With the R15 already proving its mettle has a potent track tool, this motorsport homologation comes in as a great threat for competitiors of the 150cc segment category.

It finally looks like Indian Motorsport is now heading in a positive direction - all we need are more race tracks... 

Indian Motorsport: Rohit Giri

Rohit Giri is a rising star for hte Indian Motorsport. With remarkable performance within a few races of the 600cc Novice Category of the Malaysian Super Series, he is definitely the racer to watch out for in the future. Here's a small promotional presentation on the racer (popularly known as Valentino Rohit).

Related Links:

Rohit Giri's Orkut link

Rohit Giri's Community on Orkut

The 5yr old racing wonder

Most of the good riders today started of pretty early. John Hopkins (Team Kawasaki, MotoGP) for instance started testing motor cycles at the age of 5. Following his footsteps to MotoGP is Karoon Moorthy from India. Karoon is the son of x-racer Kaushik Moorthy who raced with TVS Centigo Racing in the Indian racing scene.

Karoon is doing his first grade at Chennai in “GRT Vidhyalaya”. He is five years old and is easily the youngest competitor in our country. The lad’s closest competitor at present is twice his size and thrice his age. He owns two or more 30cc Pocket bikes (Two strokes) and rides them around the MMSC race track every alternate weekend. He is already a part of Gutzy Roadies Racing team which is based in Chennai. He is being trained by his father and other fellow racers. He has more than a 100 laps at the Chennai track and a few laps around the Kari-Speedway Coimbatore, tugged in as his experience. He holds the record for the Youngest Fastest Indian, and the youngest karting kid (covered by CNN-IBN and TIMES NOW). Karoon is also nominated for the Amazing kids award of 2008 by POGO. Witnessing him in action at the Kari Speedway, he was christened “The Indian Valentino Rossi” by UCAL & ROLON.

Now Karoon never shuts the throttle of the 30cc pocket bike at the tracks. This made Karoon long for more power on the straights and corner exits. Well everyone could notice the smile vanishing in his face when he saw the straights, and his dad made a note of it too. He was immediately presented with another pocket bike which runs on a 100cc mill. With his new bike, Karoon now evidently poses a threat to all the fellow racers in the Indian Racing scene.

- Varun Kumar.V