Results from Goa, MRF national supercross

[fredericknoronha]

TVS RACES ITS WAY TO A CLEAR WIN IN NATIONAL SUPERCROSS AT GOA

From Frederick Noronha

PANAJI (Goa), May 8 -- To the vroom-vroom of engines in full throttle, TVS Racing
claimed its dominance on two-wheels, by winning five of the six championship classes
at the MRF National Supercross 2005's firstround which was held at the Campal parade
grounds in the Goan state-capital on Sunday morning.

TVS Racing's ace rider and the reigning champion C Vijaykumar demoed his
prowess before a huge Sunday morning crowd, by dominating both the motos of
the prestigious 'foreign open class'. He came first in both the motos,
taking his point tally to 40 and also earned 'The Best Rider of the Day'
title.

Goa's was the inaugural round of this year's national supercross. Some 90
riders in different categories competed wheel to wheel for top honours. Five
other rounds are scheduled for other cities, including Pune, Baroda and
Chandigarh.

"Absolutely, we're thrilled. TVS managed to dominate. Our team has done a
wonderful job. It's a ombination of machines and skills. C Vijaykumar
competed and won the toughest class, and has made a good start by getting 40
points, the maximum any competitor could get," Peter Jacob, spokesperson of
the TVS Motor Company told Indo-Asian News Service here.

This event was classified into eight classes, including the foreign class
and a special class for local riders from Goa. The foreign motorcycle class
had an impressive lineup, consisisting of Hondas, Yamahas, Suzukis,
Kawasakis, KTMs and the indigenous TVSs.

Pre-event analysis here had rated the two major competitors in the event to
be Yamaha and TVS Racing, apart from individual participants and
enthusiasts, who came in from across the country to take part.

Sunday's supercross began with the first moto of the Indian Experts Foreign
Motorcycle. C Vijaykumar of TVS Racing managed an early lead, which he
maintained and consolidated till the end.

Yogesh Barguje of Yamaha Racing and C. S Santosh of TVS Racing who came
second and third respectively battled it out as the latter almost edged out
the former in the final bend.

The second moto of the race saw a repeat performance with C Vijaykumar
emerging clear winner followed by Barguje and Santosh who took the second
and third spot.

In the stock class of vehicles -- deploying only motorcycles without any
modification -- C. D Jinan of TVS Racing proved his class by taking honours
in the Indian Experts Group D 80 CC to 110 CC in his TVS Victor. Jinan also
took the honours in the Indian Experts Group D 125 CC to 160 CC in his TVS
Fiero F2.

The group B Indian Experts upto 150 CC 2-Stroke saw a four-way battle
between Syed Eathasham, Yogesh Barguje, C. Vijaykumar and C. Santosh.
Following a tangle between riders, Syed Eathasham managed to emerge first.
Yogesh and Vijaykumar took the second and third spot respectively, with
Yamaha managing the top spot there.

In the Novice class upto 150 cc Syed Zubbair of TVS Racing in his Shogun
fought it out to win the first spot. He was closely followed by Yamaha's
Joshua Pramod and S. Arun of TVS Racing.

The local class saw some interesting fight between Gordon Furtado and Mohmad
Kadar with the latter taking lead till the penultimate lap. Kadar's bike hit
a technical snag and gave way for Gordon. Imtiaz Kadar came a distant second
followed by Fidle Furtado who took the third spot.

Incidentally, the two-wheeler manufacturer TVS used to race Suzuki bikes
earlier but following their break-up, TVS had to develop its own. Indian
brands have earlier not participated in motorcycle races. TVS says its own
vehicles are "hand-crafted, not mass-produced machines".

Earlier this decade, TVS Motor had announced the launch of racing bikes
developed jointly by the research and development wing of TVS Motor and its
offshore consulting institution, Engines Engineering of Italy.

Final results tally of the MRF National Supercross Championships at Goa
(with the name of rider, team, and motorcycle used):

Indian Experts Foreign Open - Group A upto 250 CC: (Moto 1) C Vijaykumar of
TVS Racing on a TVS 250 X motorcycle, Yogesh Barguje of Yamaha Racing YZ
250, CS Santosh TVS Racing TVS 125 X. (Moto 2) C Vijaykumar of TVS Racing on
TVS 250 X, Yogesh Barguje of Yamaha Racing on a YZ 250, C S Santosh of TVS
Racing on a TVS 125 X.

Overall winner: C Vijaykumar of TVS Racing with 40 points.

Indian Experts Group B Above 80 CC upto 150 CC: Syed Eathasham of Yamaha
Racing on RX 135, Yogesh Barguje of Yamaha Racing RX 135, C Vijaykumar of
TVS Racing on a Shaolin.

Indian Experts Group B 110 CC upto 250 CC: Pradeep HK of TVS Racing on a TVS
Fiero, B V Suresh of TVS Racing on a TVS Fiero and Rustom Patel of TVS
Racing on a TVS Fiero.

Indian Experts Group D 125 CC upto 160 CC: C D Jinan of TVS Racing on a TVS
Fiero F2, Pradeep HK of TVS RAcing on a TVS Fiero F2 and Pinkesh Thakkar
(private) on a YBX.

Indian Experts Group D 80CC upto 110 CC: C D Jinan of TVS Racing on a TVS
Victor, Pradeep HK of TVS RAcing on a TVS Victor, and Syed Zubbair of TVS
Racing on a TVS Victor.

Indian Novice Group D Above 80 CC upto 150 CC: Syed Zubbair of TVS Racing on
a TVS Shogun, Joshua Pramod of Yamaha Racing on a Yamaha RX 135, and S Arun
of TVS Racing on a TVS Shogun.

In the non-championship events, the local class (Goa) race was won by Gordon
Furtado, Imtiaz Kada and Fidle Furtado respectively. The intermediate class
A stroke 2/4 upto 250 CC / 400 CC was won by Abhijit Jadav of Pune.

ENDS

[Dhruv]

Thanks for that Frederick.

[MXSENIOR]

Fredrick,

A little reality needs to let out into the open. TVS's indigenous motocross machines are made by a small company in Italy call TM. TVS, in order to save face, (because they have no competitive bikes for the foreign bike class) has misled the Indian public by stating they developed (with outside assistance) these machines. They were bought in Dubai and shipped to India from there. They ground off the TM logos on the engine cases and replaced them with TVS. That's pretty much the extent of their development. Below are links to two websites that show the "TVS" models sold all over the world.

Just thought I little reality should be tossed out there.
http://www.motowest.com/pages/sales_pag ... odels.html
http://www.motorbikes.be/en/TM%20Racing/

[Dhruv]

Wow they seemed to have gone through some serious work to make the public believe that the TVS bikes are "indigenous". I imagine you have seen those bikes before or were you racing in Goa in the privateer class and that was the story floating around.

[Low_Key]

Anyone have any pictures from the event??
MX_SENIOR did you ride???

[yezdirider]

Hi guys..
anyone comin to c the race in Pune,, the track is awesome,, it seems to be a very fast track and guys can get some really big air if they want,, after a huge table top nice big triple jump and then turns to another pair of double jumps,, Tomorrows race is gonna be one hell of a race to watch,, I hope

[yezdirider]

October 23, 2005, Vadodara - TVS Racing team dominated the 3rd round of the MRF National Supercross Championship by taking top honours in all of the Six Championship classes of the races held in Vadodra’s Akota Stadium, today. For once the reigning champion C Vijaykumar of TVS Racing fell behind his fellow rider C. S. Santosh who proved supreme by taking top honours in both motos of the prestigious ‘Foreign Open class’. He collected the maximum 40 points and earned ‘The Best Rider of the Day’ title.

The day began with the First moto of the Indian Experts Foreign Motorcycle where C Vijaykumar of TVS Racing managed to take an early lead till C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing with great dexterity overtook the former to emerge top in a thrilling finish. The 15 year old Karan Kadam who is riding for the first time this season for TVS Racing came a close 3rd. The second moto too saw a similar fight till Vijaykumar taking a fall, which put him in 3rd behind Santosh and Karan Kadam.

The group B Indian Experts upto 150 CC 2-Stroke was no battle for C. Vijaykumar of TVS Racing except for the strong performance by C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing who closely came behind the former. Veteran motocross expert, Rustom Patel came a distant 3rd.

In the stock class of vehicles or in other words motorcycles without any modification; Syed Zubair of TVS Racing proved his class by taking honours in the Indian Experts Group D 80 CC to 110 CC in his TVS Victor. TVS Racing dominated this class with all the three podium positions going to the team. Deepak John of TVS Racing took top honours in the Indian Experts Group D 125 CC to 160 CC in his TVS Fiero F2.


Indian Experts Foreign Open - Group A upto 250 CC. (MOTO 1)
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C. S. Santosh First TVS 250 X TVS Racing
Mr. C. Vijaykumar Second TVS 125 X TVS Racing
Mr. Karan Kadam Third TVS 125 X TVS Racing

Indian Experts Foreign Open - Group A upto 250 CC. (MOTO 2)
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C. S. Santosh First TVS 125 X TVS Racing
Mr. Karan Kadam Second TVS 125 X TVS Racing
Mr. C. Vijaykumar Third TVS 250 X TVS Racing

OVERALL WINNER – C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing with 40 points
Overall Championship leader at the end of Round 3 - C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing with 107 points

Indian Experts Group B Above 80 CC upto 150 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C. Vijayakumar First TVS Shaolin TVS Racing
Mr. C. S. Santosh Second TVS Shaolin TVS Racing
Mr. Rustom Patel Third TVS Shaolin Privateer

Indian Experts Group B 110 CC upto 250 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. Syed Zubair First TVS Fiero TVS Racing
Mr. Pradeep H.K Second TVS Fiero TVS Racing
Mr. C.D. Jinan Third TVS Fiero TVS Racing

Indian Experts Group D 125 CC upto 160 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. Deepak John First TVS Fiero F2 TVS Racing
Mr. Pradeep H.K Second TVS Fiero F2 TVS Racing
Mr. Syed Zubair Third TVS Fiero F2 TVS Racing

Indian Experts Group D 80CC upto 110 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. Syed Zubair First TVS Victor TVS Racing
Mr. Pradeep HK Second TVS Victor TVS Racing
Mr. Dilip Talekar Third TVS Victor TVS Racing

Indian Novice Group D Above 80 CC upto 160 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. Syed Zubbair First TVS Shogun TVS Racing
Mr. Dilip Talekar Second TVS Shogun TVS Racing
Mr. Pinkesh Thakker Third TVS Shogun Privateer

Non-Championship events : The local class (VADODARA)
Name Result
Mr. Nayan Gavli First
Mr. Nasir Badshah Second
Mr. Dilip Rajput Third
The intermediate class A stroke 2/4 upto 250 CC / 400 CC was won by Yogesh Barguje of Pune

[Dhruv]

Wow. Thanks for all that yez rider.

[yezdirider]

No problem Dhruv,,, the last three races of the championship -- 4th round Jaipur on 13th November,,,, 5th Round Chandigarh on 20th November... and last round Bangalore on 11th December... get some pictures some one

[India1989]

So this rally in Goa is a bike race or a car race.

[yezdirider]

C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing excels at MRF National Supercross Rnd 4, Chandigarh
Santosh named ‘Best Rider of The Day’

November 20, 2005, Chandigarh: TVS Racing team once again dominated the proceedings at MRF National Supercross Championship by taking top honours at the fourth round held in Chandigarh, today. The reigning champion C Vijaykumar of TVS Racing once again fell behind his fellow rider C. S. Santosh who edged the former by taking top honours in the second moto of the prestigious ‘Foreign Open class’ which made him earn ‘The Best Rider of the Day’ title. Vijaykumar, having taken top honors in the first moto shared the tally with Santosh with 37 points however, latter’s supremacy in the second moto ensured him the winner title by virtue of being number one in the second moto.

The day began with the First moto of the Indian Experts Foreign Motorcycle where C Vijaykumar of TVS Racing shot into lead and managing to keep up the momentum in spite of C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing’s aggressive attempts to overtake the former. The Second Moto was where Santosh went all guns blazing with his daredevil skills as he managed to overcome Vijaykumar in the 3rd lap. Both the motos were well-fought encounters between the two with Santosh eventually taking the limelight of the day. Pradeep H. K of TVS Racing took the third spot in this class

The group B Indian Experts upto 150 CC 2-Stroke title seems destined for C. Vijaykumar of TVS Racing as he emerged at the top repeating the previous round performance held at Vadodara. His teammate C. S. Santosh was the only one who posed to be a threat during the race. A privateer from Jaipur, Abhishek Mishra came 3rd.

In the stock class of vehicles or in other words motorcycles without any modification; the experienced C. D . Jinan of TVS Racing proved his class by taking honours in the Indian Experts Group D 80 CC to 110 CC in his TVS Victor. Jinan’s dominance continued even in the Indian Experts Group D 125 CC to 160 CC where he sealed top honours on his TVS Fiero F2.
In the Novice class upto 150 cc; Dilip Talekar of TVS Racing with a huge lead took the first spot. Abishek Mishra and Abhijit Zavade took the second and third spot respectively.


Indian Experts Foreign Open - Group A upto 250 CC. (MOTO 1)
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C. Vijaykumar First TVS 125 X TVS Racing
Mr. C. S. Santosh Second TVS 250 X TVS Racing
Mr. Pradeep H.K Third TVS 125 X TVS Racing

Indian Experts Foreign Open - Group A upto 250 CC. (MOTO 2)
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C. S. Santosh First TVS 125 X TVS Racing
Mr. C. Vijaykumar Second TVS 125 X TVS Racing

OVERALL WINNER – C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing with 37points
Overall Championship leader at the end of Round 4 - C. S. Santosh of TVS Racing with 144 points

Indian Experts Group B Above 80 CC upto 150 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C. Vijayakumar First TVS Shaolin TVS Racing
Mr. C. S. Santosh Second TVS Shaolin TVS Racing
Mr. Abishek Mishra Third Yamaha YZ Privateer

Indian Experts Group B 110 CC upto 250 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. Pradeep H.K First TVS Fiero TVS Racing
Mr. Deepak John Second TVS Fiero TVS Racing
Mr. C.D. Jinan Third TVS Fiero TVS Racing

Indian Experts Group D 125 CC upto 160 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C.D. Jinan First TVS Fiero F2 TVS Racing
Mr. Pradeep H.K Second TVS Fiero F2 TVS Racing
Mr. Deepak John Third TVS Fiero F2 TVS Racing

Indian Experts Group D 80CC upto 110 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. C.D. Jinan First TVS Victor TVS Racing
Mr. Pradeep HK Second TVS Victor TVS Racing
Mr. Deepak John Third TVS Victor TVS Racing

Indian Novice Group D Above 80 CC upto 150 CC
Name Result Vehicle Team
Mr. Dilip Talekar First TVS Shogun TVS Racing
Mr. Abhishek Mishra Second Yamaha YBX Privateer
Mr. Abhijit V Zagade Third Yamaha RX 100 Privateer

Non-Championship events : The local class (Chandigarh)
Name Result
Mr. Nayan Gavli First
Mr. Nasir Badshah Second
Mr. Dilip Rajput Third

[India1989]

Can I have some pictures of the track. Do they race on mud or on road. I would like to see those pics.

[yezdirider]

they race on mud,,, man mande track actually which comprises of jumps and sharp turns... Bikes are foreign as well as indian modified for such racing called MOTOCROSS... there are a few pics in the gallery of this site,, please have alook at them.

[India1989]

Ok, thanks. I will take a look at them. So the guy who's jumping from kind of hilly mud is motocross right. Wow have they played in international competition or there's no international competition for this.