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Aaroh Ravindra wins the 2015 JK Tyre Kart Open Championship

In the Rookie Cup category, Aanjan Patodia won the title of the JK Tyre Rookie Cup Champion

Overdrive|May 27, 2015, 08:00:24 IST

Team Rayo Racing put up a dominant performance at the second round of the JK Kart Open series, capturing all the three positions on the podium.

The star performer for the team was Aaroh Ravindra. He qualified on pole for each of the four races and managed to finish the first three races in P1. The fourth race, however, was when he ran out of luck. With three laps to go he was comfortably in the lead when all of a sudden, the rear bumper on Aaroh’s kart broke and he had to pit. He rejoined the race but could only managed to finish in P14.

Mrinal Chatterjee, who also races for team Rayo Racing had the most progressive weekend as he kept rising up the leaderboard with each race. The youngster finished fourth in Race One, moved up to third in Race Two, stood second in Race Three and went on to win Race Four.

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