Joey Mawson extends lead over Newey
Australian Joey Mawson shrugged off a wretched qualifying session to pull off a brilliant win and extend his championship lead over Britain’s Harrison Newey by 27 points in the final round of the MRF Challenge which headlined the second round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Racing Championship at the MMRT track in Sriperumbudur, near here on Saturday.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-02-18 16:56 GMT
Chennai
While Mawson and Newey stole the day’s limelight, there were other impressive performances in the National championship that saw Karthik Tharani (MRF F1600), Prashanth K (Formula LGB 1300) and Narendran (Saloon cars) winning their respective races in contrasting styles.
Newey, starting from pole position, clinched the top spot in the MRF Challenge’s first race after an initial struggle. Mawson, who had qualified seventh, won the second outing quite comfortably after overhauling reverse grid pole-sitter Daniel Ticktum (Britain).
The results saw Mawson taking his championship tally to 250 points while Newey, who was fourth in the second race, has 223 and the other title contender Mick Schumacher (195) was in third position ahead of Sunday’s double-header.
Tharani, who was placed second in the championship last season, put in a fine performance for a lights-to-flag victory after surviving some close attention from Anindith Reddy of Hyderabad who finished a second ahead of Raghul Rangasamy, who hails from the nearby temple town of Mahabalipuram.
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