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Narain's Formula Rolons will hog limelight in third leg

Chennai, Sep 22 (UNI) India's first F1 driver Narain Karthikayan's Team NK, driving the Formula Rolon cars with Chevrolet powered engine, will be hogging the limelight being seen in action for the first time on the Irungattukottai track in the third leg of the J K Tyre National Racing Championship here tomorrow and Sep 22.

According to a press release, the races, finals of which will be held on September 22 will see over 40 racers from all over the country. The highlight of the races would be the Formula Rolon, driven by Ameya Walavalkar, Aditya Akkineni, Aditya Patel and Akhil Kushlani of Narain Karthikeyan's new academy team.

Team Meco Racing led by the seasoned Akbar Ebrahim, last year's champion Rayomand Banajee, Gautam Maini and Ashwin Sundar, Formula LGB Hyundai and Formlula LGB Swift are the others in fray.

Gaurav Gill, the new talent in the country and the ony driver in India who is rallying and racing professionally leads the table with 19 points after the first two rounds. Gaurav Dalal of Team Prime Racing is in the second place with 13 points and Ambar Ebrahim, testing the youngsters, giving them a hard time on the track, is in the third place with 11 points.

Team Wallace Sports is the lead in the Formula LGB Swift class, comprising Saran, Vikram, Ajay Kini and Saahil Shelar, notching up 42,30 and 23 points, respectively.

Team Meco and Formula Wallace Sports are in the second and third places, in that order.

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Vengsarkar, Raju to come into national selection committee

Mumbai, Sep 22 (UNI) Former India captain Dilip Vengsarkar is set to take over as chief national selector from ex-teammate Kiran More. Vengsarkar's name has been put forward from the influential West Zone, one of India's five regions represented on the panel. ''The Mumbai Cricket Association's (MCA) management committee has proposed Vengsarkar as West Zone's representative and we expect his name to be cleared by other state associations of this zone,'' MCA treasurer Ratnakar Shetty.....

Olga-Iroda set up semi-final date

Kolkata, Sep 22 (UNI) Olga Poutchkova and Iroda Tulyaganova will meet each other in the semi-finals of the Sunfeast Open after running over their adversaries in contrasting manner here today. Olga put aside Italian Alberta Brianti 7-5, 6-3 to become the first player to reach the semi-finals and Iroda followed 20 minutes later beating Alla Kudryavtseva 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the next match. The blonde Russian, who made it to the quarter finals of the.....

Gangjee makes cut, Johl falls by the wayside

Seoul, Sep 22 (UNI) Rahil Gangjee returned his second successive one under 70 card to make the cut whereas compatriot Amandeep Johl had a nightmarish outing and his four-over 75 card saw him falling by the wayside at the 700,000 dollar Kolon-Hana Bank Korea Open here today. At the halfway mark, Gangjee aggregates two-under 140 and is 10 shots off the leader, Korea's Kang Ji-man. The Korean intends to topple former US Open champion --.....
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