Deccan Rally -- Hyderabad

haryan · 8th December 2005, 21:45

SUJANA MRF DECCAN RALLY 2005 .. LAST ROUND OF MAI INRC CHAMPIONSHIP. 9 10 11 DEC . Hyderabad

The last rally of the INRC 2005 season got underway today with Recce being completed today ..
26 entries have been received till date making this Rally the Second highest in number of entries in INRC rounds of 2005
The Championship Battle in all the THREE classes 1600's, 1400's and RSC are to be decided here in Hyderabad .. and exciting battles are expected between title protoganists Naren Kumar and Arjun Balu (Overall 1600) , Pritveen Rajan and Sanjay Aggarwal (1400) Chetan and Joshi (RSC)
Rally will be flagged off at 12 15 from Fortune Katriya Hotel and Super Special Stage will be held at NTR Stadium .. SSS is of 4.5 Kms and Rally is over for the day ( Friday 9th dec ) ..and on Saturday ( 10th Dec ) all the cars will be heading towards picturesque stages on
Karimnagar Road 45 Kms away from Hyd. There are 3 stages in total repeated thrice in forward and once in Reverse totalling 12 Stages on day I and the same will be repeated on Sunday ( 11th Dec ) ... Stages are all smooth Gravel with tight and twisty sections ..
I was there at all stages today for the recce ... helping out my good friends Jiby Malliakkal , Pritveen , Phillipose Mathai , Joshi and Ravi Agarwal .. saw our TBHP guy Sanket Shanbhag .. He came to recce in Skoda RS along with his wife and Kid ... couldnt speak to him today ..
thats it for now ...
Tommorrow will try to post the results of SSS and some photographs

Mpower · 8th December 2005, 22:24

Guys, what is the current standing in the championship? Is it Naren or Arjun leading? What happened to Vikram Mathais? Is Leela tuning both JK and MRF cars this year ??

Badcheetah · 9th December 2005, 13:00

Hey there Mpower ,
Dont know about the Championship points but Leela is not tunning MRF cars now . They are being done by J.Anand ..

Vikram was involved in a serious accident (Spectacular one i may say

) during the Rally of the North and ended up with a broke hand and wrist . Sujit was badly shaken up but was discharged the same day.

Gaurav Gill would be driving in his place for this rally. The car which Vikram had the crash was a Complete wreck and when i was towing the car back , leela said that all that they can salvage from the car was the suspention(That to they would have to check once it was taken off ), and the stearing wheel .The seats also they said cant be used .

Lets hope this rally is a safe one ....

Rtech · 9th December 2005, 13:13

You can find the detailed Championship Points on www.mai.co.in

However only 1 point separates Naren Kumar (42) from Arjun Balu (41), so its going to be a nailbiting finish to the Championship.

Similarly, 2 points seperate Sanjay Agarwal from second place Prithveen Rajan for 1400cc honours.

haryan · 9th December 2005, 20:34

okay guys ... I am back ..
what a start to Deccan Rally .. Flagoff happened at 12 15 from Katriya Hotel and all the cars proceeded to Parc Ferme at NTR Stadium for the start of SSS. SSS started off in reverse order of the entry list .. and the Battle Royale between title protaganists started off with right earnest .. First off were about 4 RSC esteems and then Came our TBHP guy Sanket Shanbhag in his Gypsy .. what a Phenomenol drive he did .. he impressed everyone with some solid driving even beating some of the RSC cars .. Joshi did brilliant driving and was the Fastest of the RSC cars .. Pritveen did calculated and fantastic driving to lead the 1400s pack ..he was timed at 4:19..Sanjay was 4 seconds behind him after he clocked in at 4:23.. Pritveen was infact the best of the rest after the JK and MRF Baleno 1600s . he even beat Gaurav Gill in Baleno ..
then came the Balenos and Arjun Aroor Rao threw the Gauntlet to Naren Kumar with timing of 4:12 .. Everyone was waiting for Naren to start and he didnt disappoint anyone .. true to his reputation of his being the BEST , he demolishe the whole field with his absolutely on the limit Driving and Clocked 4:07 .. thus leading the rally by 5 seconds ..
Jiby Malliakkal clocked in 4:21
Official Timings and photographs will follow soon

haryan · 9th December 2005, 20:38

This is Sanket Shanbhag with his Daughter .. i couldnt take his Picture in action because i was shooting the Video ..

haryan · 9th December 2005, 21:04

Jiby and Nikhil Pai

Pritveen Rajan and PVS Murthy

thats me in Red Cap with Pritveen and Jiby

haryan · 9th December 2005, 21:22

Deccan Rally 2005
SSS timings :
OVERALL RESULTS
1) Naren Kumar 4m 07s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
2) Arjun Balu 4m 12s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
3) Arjun Aroor 4m 12s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
4) Karandip 4m 12s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
5) Lohit Urs 4m 15s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
6) Pritveen 4m 19s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 )
7) Gaurav Gill 4m 20s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
8) Jiby 4m 21s ( Team GULF Honda city Vtec )
9) Sanjay 4m 23s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 )
10) Phillipose 4m 24s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 )
11) Ranjith 4m 24s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
12) Rahul 4m 25s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
13) Joshi 4m 26s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
14) Shresta 4m 28s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 )
15) Sandeep 4m 31s ( Maruti Suzuki Gypsy )
16) Sanket 4m 31s ( Maruti Suzuki Gypsy )
17) Ravi 4m 32s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
18) Anil Wadia 4m 34s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 )
19) Chetan 4m 35s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
20) TT Patil 4m 40s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 )
21) Prithvi 4m 41s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
22) Kiran 4m 45s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
23) Zubin 4m 45s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
24) Anita 5m 04s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
25) Ramaraju 5m 10s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )
26) RainaAnanya 5m 49s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC )

One entry from Hyderabad didnt pass Scrutiny ...

Mpower · 9th December 2005, 21:26

Good report Haryan, and nice pics too. Glad to know that some bhpians are still interested in rallying. I guess Naren gets the c'ship this year. The man is a Schumacher of Indian rallying.
Nice to see the OHC still in action. Indian rallying otherwise always looked like a one make series. Who is the tuner for Team Gulf/Chettinad Hondas.

haryan · 9th December 2005, 22:04

thats Joshi and Srikanth ... RSC

this is me ( RED CAP ) next to Jiby with Pritveen , Murthy , Jiby and Nikhil with Prithveens Car ...

haryan · 9th December 2005, 22:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mpower

Who is the tuner for Team Gulf/Chettinad Hondas.

Swaminathan is the tuner / Chief Mechanic for Chettinad Sporting ..
He trained under Late Karivardhan

papps · 12th December 2005, 01:46

well naren won the rally, gaurav came in second and third lohit..
1400 cc sanjay first and ravi second
and RSC joshy wins and wadia second.. i dunno about the complete results.. maybe someone who has them can post them up... i heard there were quite a lot of retirements..

haryan · 12th December 2005, 10:04

this picture sums up the ENDING of the DECCAN RALLY 2005 ... and the INRC season 2005 ...

haryan · 12th December 2005, 10:11

DECCAN RALLY 2005
OVERALL RESULTS
Naren Kumar
Gaurav Gill
Lohith Urs
Sanjay Agarwal
Ranjith Ballal
1400's
Sanjay Agarwal
Ravi Agarwal
RamaRaju

RSC
G S Joshi
Anil Wadia
TT Patil

GYPSY CLASS
Sandeep Sharma
Sanket Shanbhag

LADIES CLASS
Rayna Aranhya

BEST LOCAL ENTRY
RamaRaju

LIST OF RETIREMENTS :
DAY ONE :
Phillipose Mathai
Arjun Aroor Rao
Prithveen Rajan
Arjun Balu
Karandip Singh
Anita Kholay
Prithvi
Shresta Patil
Rahul Kanthraj
Chetan
kiran
DAY TWO :
None ( only Arjun Aroor Rao came in SupeRally format )

Mpower · 12th December 2005, 10:12

I can envision full page ads in all newspapers announcing that they beat MRF fair and square. Well done JK.

Welcome back to indian rallying.

Did'nt they also win APRC this year with Karamjit Singh in a Proton.

8th December 2005, 21:45	#1
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	Deccan Rally -- Hyderabad SUJANA MRF DECCAN RALLY 2005 .. LAST ROUND OF MAI INRC CHAMPIONSHIP. 9 10 11 DEC . Hyderabad The last rally of the INRC 2005 season got underway today with Recce being completed today .. 26 entries have been received till date making this Rally the Second highest in number of entries in INRC rounds of 2005 The Championship Battle in all the THREE classes 1600's, 1400's and RSC are to be decided here in Hyderabad .. and exciting battles are expected between title protoganists Naren Kumar and Arjun Balu (Overall 1600) , Pritveen Rajan and Sanjay Aggarwal (1400) Chetan and Joshi (RSC) Rally will be flagged off at 12 15 from Fortune Katriya Hotel and Super Special Stage will be held at NTR Stadium .. SSS is of 4.5 Kms and Rally is over for the day ( Friday 9th dec ) ..and on Saturday ( 10th Dec ) all the cars will be heading towards picturesque stages on Karimnagar Road 45 Kms away from Hyd. There are 3 stages in total repeated thrice in forward and once in Reverse totalling 12 Stages on day I and the same will be repeated on Sunday ( 11th Dec ) ... Stages are all smooth Gravel with tight and twisty sections .. I was there at all stages today for the recce ... helping out my good friends Jiby Malliakkal , Pritveen , Phillipose Mathai , Joshi and Ravi Agarwal .. saw our TBHP guy Sanket Shanbhag .. He came to recce in Skoda RS along with his wife and Kid ... couldnt speak to him today .. thats it for now ... Tommorrow will try to post the results of SSS and some photographs
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8th December 2005, 22:24	#2
Mpower Senior - BHPian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bangalore Posts: 10,409 Thanked: 1,730 Times View My Garage	Guys, what is the current standing in the championship? Is it Naren or Arjun leading? What happened to Vikram Mathais? Is Leela tuning both JK and MRF cars this year ??
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9th December 2005, 13:00	#3
Badcheetah BHPian Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: New Delhi Posts: 123 Thanked: 3 Times	Hey there Mpower , Dont know about the Championship points but Leela is not tunning MRF cars now . They are being done by J.Anand .. Vikram was involved in a serious accident (Spectacular one i may say ) during the Rally of the North and ended up with a broke hand and wrist . Sujit was badly shaken up but was discharged the same day. Gaurav Gill would be driving in his place for this rally. The car which Vikram had the crash was a Complete wreck and when i was towing the car back , leela said that all that they can salvage from the car was the suspention(That to they would have to check once it was taken off ), and the stearing wheel .The seats also they said cant be used . Lets hope this rally is a safe one ....
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9th December 2005, 13:13	#4
Rtech Team-BHP Support Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Bombay Posts: 5,770 Thanked: 359 Times View My Garage	You can find the detailed Championship Points on www.mai.co.in However only 1 point separates Naren Kumar (42) from Arjun Balu (41), so its going to be a nailbiting finish to the Championship. Similarly, 2 points seperate Sanjay Agarwal from second place Prithveen Rajan for 1400cc honours.
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9th December 2005, 20:34	#5
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	okay guys ... I am back .. what a start to Deccan Rally .. Flagoff happened at 12 15 from Katriya Hotel and all the cars proceeded to Parc Ferme at NTR Stadium for the start of SSS. SSS started off in reverse order of the entry list .. and the Battle Royale between title protaganists started off with right earnest .. First off were about 4 RSC esteems and then Came our TBHP guy Sanket Shanbhag in his Gypsy .. what a Phenomenol drive he did .. he impressed everyone with some solid driving even beating some of the RSC cars .. Joshi did brilliant driving and was the Fastest of the RSC cars .. Pritveen did calculated and fantastic driving to lead the 1400s pack ..he was timed at 4:19..Sanjay was 4 seconds behind him after he clocked in at 4:23.. Pritveen was infact the best of the rest after the JK and MRF Baleno 1600s . he even beat Gaurav Gill in Baleno .. then came the Balenos and Arjun Aroor Rao threw the Gauntlet to Naren Kumar with timing of 4:12 .. Everyone was waiting for Naren to start and he didnt disappoint anyone .. true to his reputation of his being the BEST , he demolishe the whole field with his absolutely on the limit Driving and Clocked 4:07 .. thus leading the rally by 5 seconds .. Jiby Malliakkal clocked in 4:21 Official Timings and photographs will follow soon
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9th December 2005, 20:38	#6
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	This is Sanket Shanbhag with his Daughter .. i couldnt take his Picture in action because i was shooting the Video ..
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9th December 2005, 21:04	#7
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	Jiby and Nikhil Pai Pritveen Rajan and PVS Murthy thats me in Red Cap with Pritveen and Jiby
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9th December 2005, 21:22	#8
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	Deccan Rally 2005 SSS timings : OVERALL RESULTS 1) Naren Kumar 4m 07s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 2) Arjun Balu 4m 12s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 3) Arjun Aroor 4m 12s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 4) Karandip 4m 12s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 5) Lohit Urs 4m 15s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 6) Pritveen 4m 19s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 ) 7) Gaurav Gill 4m 20s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 8) Jiby 4m 21s ( Team GULF Honda city Vtec ) 9) Sanjay 4m 23s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 ) 10) Phillipose 4m 24s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 ) 11) Ranjith 4m 24s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 12) Rahul 4m 25s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 13) Joshi 4m 26s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 14) Shresta 4m 28s ( Maruti Suzuki Baleno 1600 ) 15) Sandeep 4m 31s ( Maruti Suzuki Gypsy ) 16) Sanket 4m 31s ( Maruti Suzuki Gypsy ) 17) Ravi 4m 32s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 18) Anil Wadia 4m 34s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 ) 19) Chetan 4m 35s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 20) TT Patil 4m 40s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1400 ) 21) Prithvi 4m 41s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 22) Kiran 4m 45s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 23) Zubin 4m 45s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 24) Anita 5m 04s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 25) Ramaraju 5m 10s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) 26) RainaAnanya 5m 49s ( Maruti Suzuki Esteem 1300 RSC ) One entry from Hyderabad didnt pass Scrutiny ...
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9th December 2005, 21:26	#9
Mpower Senior - BHPian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bangalore Posts: 10,409 Thanked: 1,730 Times View My Garage	Good report Haryan, and nice pics too. Glad to know that some bhpians are still interested in rallying. I guess Naren gets the c'ship this year. The man is a Schumacher of Indian rallying. Nice to see the OHC still in action. Indian rallying otherwise always looked like a one make series. Who is the tuner for Team Gulf/Chettinad Hondas. Last edited by Mpower : 9th December 2005 at 21:28.
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9th December 2005, 22:04	#10
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	thats Joshi and Srikanth ... RSC this is me ( RED CAP ) next to Jiby with Pritveen , Murthy , Jiby and Nikhil with Prithveens Car ...
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12th December 2005, 01:46	#12
papps BHPian Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Newcastle, UK Posts: 271 Thanked: 0 Times	well naren won the rally, gaurav came in second and third lohit.. 1400 cc sanjay first and ravi second and RSC joshy wins and wadia second.. i dunno about the complete results.. maybe someone who has them can post them up... i heard there were quite a lot of retirements..
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12th December 2005, 10:04	#13
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	this picture sums up the ENDING of the DECCAN RALLY 2005 ... and the INRC season 2005 ...
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12th December 2005, 10:11	#14
haryan BHPian Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: HYDERABAD INDIA Posts: 345 Thanked: 5 Times	DECCAN RALLY 2005 OVERALL RESULTS Naren Kumar Gaurav Gill Lohith Urs Sanjay Agarwal Ranjith Ballal 1400's Sanjay Agarwal Ravi Agarwal RamaRaju RSC G S Joshi Anil Wadia TT Patil GYPSY CLASS Sandeep Sharma Sanket Shanbhag LADIES CLASS Rayna Aranhya BEST LOCAL ENTRY RamaRaju LIST OF RETIREMENTS : DAY ONE : Phillipose Mathai Arjun Aroor Rao Prithveen Rajan Arjun Balu Karandip Singh Anita Kholay Prithvi Shresta Patil Rahul Kanthraj Chetan kiran DAY TWO : None ( only Arjun Aroor Rao came in SupeRally format ) Last edited by haryan : 12th December 2005 at 10:22.
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12th December 2005, 10:12	#15
Mpower Senior - BHPian Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Bangalore Posts: 10,409 Thanked: 1,730 Times View My Garage	I can envision full page ads in all newspapers announcing that they beat MRF fair and square. Well done JK. Welcome back to indian rallying. Did'nt they also win APRC this year with Karamjit Singh in a Proton.
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