~JK Tyre Hornbill Motor Rally doubles up for the fourth round of the JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National TSD Rally Championship on Dec 5-6, 2012~
~Rally promises adventure and excitement like never before in the backdrop of the world famous Hornbill Festival~
Kohima, December 4, 2012: The two-day fifth JK Tyre Hornbill Rally, boasting of a pan-National entry list and which doubles up as the fourth round of the FMSCI Indian National TSD Rally Championship, will commence here on Wednesday with a ceremonial flag-off at the Indira Gandhi Stadium presided by Dr. Chumben Murry, Minister for Agriculture, Government of Nagaland.
More than 20 top drivers and navigators of the country, including a six-car Tata Motors Full Throttle team, will be competing in the Indian National TSD Rally Championship organized by the Nagaland Adventure and Motor Sports Association (NAMSA) in association with Berunda Adventure Sports Club, Mysore with support from the Government of Nagaland.
In addition to this, more than 50 participants, in both four and two-wheeler categories, will be competing for the local championship.
Crews from the neighbouring states like Assam and Meghalaya as well as from Delhi, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka Chandigarh, Goa and West Bengal will be seen in action.
The participants will traverse 140 Kms through parts of National highway 29, Touphema tourist village and culminate at the Naga Heritage Village, Kisama.
The TSD INRC should again witness a close battle considering that the previous three rounds have thrown up different overall winners.
Karthick Maruti and his navigator Sankar Anand, with a win in the third round at Jaipur and two second place finishes, head the championship standings in the Overall and Pro-Expert categories with 65 points.
They are followed by two Full Throttle crews of Sachin Singh and Chandrasekar M in a Tata Grande with 43 points, and the husband-wife combination of Satish Gopalkrishnan and Savera D’Souza driving a Tata Vista with 35.
Sachin Singh and Anand won the second round in Ranchi while Satish Gopalkrishnan and Savera D’Souza took the top honours in the first round at Bangalore.
In the Pro-Stock class, Full Throttle’s experienced pair of Chidananda Murthy and BS Sujith Kumar, also in a Tata Vista, head the leaderboard with two wins and 65 points, and they will be looking to consolidate their position at the top.
While GS.Joshy.and Chandramouli (Tata Vista) and Kuriakose Elias Paarel and Srikanth GM (Vista) are the other two Full Throttle crews, local hero Along Aiyer with V Sekar as his navigator will complete the Tata team driving a Sumo Gold.
The Tata Full Throttle team also leads in the Constructors’ championship with 111 points ahead of Volkswagen (52) and Mahindra (25).
About JK Tyre Motorsport
JK Tyre has always been closely associated with the world of sports. Almost three decades back the company laid down a long term and sustained approach to promote Motorsport. Participating in this form of the sport has helped the company in continuously updating its products to meet the challenges of gruelling Indian conditions. The sport at that time in India was perceived for elite but JK Tyre took upon itself to package and redesign the sport to suit the masses. The company not only made the sport affordable but also equivalent to International operating standards. JK Tyre’s foray into Motorsport was a well thought out strategic decision to not only use and develop this virgin branding platform but also to realize the dreams of making India a force in the field of motor sport.
In 2011, the company acquired the Formula BMW Series and rechristened it as the JK Racing Asia Series (JKRAS). With this acquisition, JK Tyre created history in Indian Motorsport by becoming the first Indian company to acquire an FIA accredited series. The series has to its credit of producing as many as six of the current Formula One drivers, including reigning two- time champion Sebastian Vettel. By taking over the series, JK Tyre promises to utilize it as a platform to encourage and support the world’s best racing drivers and promote India as one of Asia’s motorsport capitals. Thus, JK Tyre has conquered two steps in the motorsport program where the new racing aspirants first establish themselves in India, then graduate to Asian level i.e. to Formula BMW, which is now JKRAS and then they move to higher levels of racing. JK Tyre now stands closer to achieving its mission of bringing world-class motorsport to the Indian masses.
The Racing and Karting programme by JK Tyre has been the breeding ground for the country’s motorsport talents like Narain Karthikeyan, Armaan Ebrahim, Karun Chandhok, Aditya Patel and other emerging talents.
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