Karminder Pal Singh wins Race 1 of Round 3 of Vento Cup 2016

The 2016 season of the Volkswagen Vento Cup is turning out to be interesting with Karminder Pal Singh winning another race ahead of championship favourite Ishaan Dodhiwala. On a freshly laid MMSC track, the drivers pushed the race-prepped Vento cars to their limits.

Earlier in the day, Ishaan proved to be the fastest guy around with a pole-setting lap of 1:55:821 showing why he is the championship favourite. It was a closely fought pole position with the top four starters within three tenths of a second.

Karminder Singh Pal, starting second on the grid, pulled out one of the best starts to take the lead from Ishaan at the first corner itself. From there, Karminder drove a clean race in the front, not giving a single chance to Ishaan to fight back. Keith who had started third, suffered a bad launch and plunged to sixth and then fought back to fourth with Aditya Pawar too far ahead to catch up. Junior Cup driver Jeet Jabakh finished a respectable fifth.

Race 2 on Sunday will see a reversed grid with last year’s junior champ Pradeep Rao starting from pole and Jeet Jabakh from fourth.