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Eshanth Vengatesan wins third place in ROK Cup Round 1 finals at Singapore
Singapore, 18 March 2025: The 13-year-old Eshanth Vengatesan from Chennai notched up a brilliant podium in the ROK Cup Junior Karting Championship held in Singapore on March 15 and 16.
Eshanth took the final spot on the podium, finishing third in the final race of Round 1 in the ROK Cup Junior section at the KF1 Circuit in Singapore. The ROK Cup Singapore kicked off last weekend with 47 drivers on the grid across 4 categories namely Mini, Junior, Senior, and Rookie. Satt Kotak, Conrad Garrow, Dillan Tan, took dominant wins in the first 3 categories respectively.
Eshanth, who finished runners-up in the fmsci Rotax Max National Karting Championship Junior category last year is a student of SBOA Global School, Anna Nagar, Chennai. The MSport karter won the first runner-up place in the OK-Junior Championship last year and was nominated by the Indian Federation (fmsci) to represent India in the FIA Karting Academy Junior Championship to be held later this year in Europe with rounds in Spain, Germany and Italy.
Born on 17th September 2011, Eshanth made his debut in the Indian National Championship in 2022 and won his debut race in the Micro Max class. He finished runner-up in the Nationals that year to take a deserving ‘Best Newcomer Award’. Later, he represented India in the Asia Pacific Championship held in Malaysia in 2023 and Singapore in 2024. Before returning to India, he started as a cadet in Singapore at the age of 9 and displayed good speed and skills to match the pace of seniors. In 2023, he also finished second in the Meritus Cup.
The Sebastian Vettel fan will be looking forward to a fruitful season in India, apart from his international OKJ races.
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Ruhaan Alva clinches LGB Formula 4 title for 2023
Coimbatore, 19 Nov. 2003: Championship leader Ruhaan Alva of MSport signed off on a merry note winning the LGB Formula 4 title much to the joy of his team on an action-packed final round of the 26th JK Tyre National Racing Championship at the Kari Motor Speedway in
Chettipalayam here on Sunday.
Ruhaan enjoyed a good 20-point lead over Kolkata’s Arya Singh of Dark Don Racing the other day. With just a race to go, it was enough for the Bengaluru boy to seal the title. But it turned out to be a different story as Arya got some relief and his points back after they appealed to the Indian Motor Sports Appeal Court (IMSAC). So did a couple of Momentum Motorsport drivers in the JK Tyre Novice Cup.
A post event scrutiny saw their points docked in the penultimate round at the same venue for technical infringement and they slipped down the table. So that put the pressure back on Ruhaan gunning for his maiden national championship title in the premier category. However, Ruhaan put that at the back of his head and fought hard from P8 to take the second spot on the podium in the final race and emerge the champion with a final tally of 82 points.
The youngster was obviously elated after the race. “I feel great to have got the title. It was a crazy final race. Diljith [Dark Don] and I were involved in a great battle went neck to neck. He tried to hold me up for some time but I managed to cut a corner to come in second,” said Ruhaan.
“It was a bit tense at the beginning but I am a lot relieved now,” he added. Arya and his teammate Tijil Rao, who finished on top of the podium, were tied for the second spot with 71 points each.
Arjun S. Nair (82pts) brought great delight to his team Momentum Motorsports by clinching the JK Tyre Novice Cup without much ado. His teammate Neythan McPherson (53pts) and DTS Racing’s Joel Joseph (44pts) had to content with the next two places respectively.
It was a clean sweep by the Bengaluru boys in the JK Tyre presents Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup with Abhishek Vasudev (54pts), Jagadeesh Nagara (45pts) and Ullas S. Nanda (39pts) finishing in that order.
Sarvesh Balappa (Hubballi), who dominated the entire season, finished with 30 points, to seal the title in the JK Tyre Presents 250 Cup followed by Sachin Jothees (Hosur) and S. Govidharaj (Tirupur).
The results (provisional): Day 2:
LGB Formula 4: 1. Tijil Rao (Dark Don Racing) 28:19.852, 2. Ruhaan Alva (MSport) 28:22.808, 3. Mira Erda (MSport) 28:25.478.
JK Tyre Novice Cup: 1. Arjun S. Nair (Momentum Motorsport) 10:07.713, 2. Neythan McPherson (Momentum Motorsport) 10:07.754, 3. Jigar Muni 10:10.095.
RE Continental GT Cup: 1. Anish Shetty (Bengaluru) 13:17.302, 2. Abhishek Vasudev 13:18.817, 3. MD Samrul Zubair 13:19.706.
250 Cup (10 laps): 1. Sarvesh Balappa (Hubballi) 15:49.274, 2. Sachin Jothees (Hosur) 15:53.109, 3. S. Govindharaj (Tirupur) 15:53.250.
