Samuel wins season opener

Natrax facility at Pritampur in Indore  played host for the MRF Rally of Indore, a round of MRF Mogrip FMSCI National Rally Championship 2025 for 2 wheelers the season opener. The 17.1 kms track was run thrice in forward direction totalling to 51.3kms. The event was promoted by Godspeed  and organised by AW Events.

With a total time of 48min 34 sec Samuel Jacob from Kerala won the Super Bike-Pro-Expert upto 500cc GroupA  class while Abdul Wahid Tanveer  from Mysuru  with less than four seconds difference finished in second position, Rajendra RE from Shivamogga thoughwas the fastest with 10sec lead over the leader, but had to slide down to third position due to 1min Liaison penalties for early checkin. Defending champion Rajendra dominated the first and final stage and Samuel managed it in stage two, as the top three positions were in Petronas TVS Racing's Kitty.  

Defending champion Nataraj R from Mysuru representing VM Motorsports with a total time of 52.20 was the winner of the Super Bike-Expert upto 500cc GroupA class, while his teammate Naresh VS from Bengaluru had to settle for second with a difference of 58sec, Aman Pawde a privateer from Nagpur with further 39sec difference completed the podium. Erankulam's Sinan Francis from Team Ace Mobikes was 1min 17sec slower and missed the podium, GS Amogh Nag a privateer from Bengaluru finished fifth with a difference of  34sec.

Super Sport upto 165cc GroupB was bagged by Abdul Raheman from Shivamogga, while the podium was dominated by VM Motorsports, Bengalurians Bharath L with 1min 21sec difference finished second and Varun Kumar A with just over a second difference  was third. Two privateers Nithyan L from Coimbatore with 11sec difference was fourth and Dheeraj H from Shivamogga finished fifth.

Banteilang Jyrwa from Petronas TVS Racing was the winner of the Super Sport 165 to 260cc GroupB with a total time of 50min 15sec, Arun T from Hassan representing Hero Motorsports Team Rally with 19sec deficit finished second. Imran Pasha from Mysuru representing Petronas TVS Racing finished third with 18sec difference.  Karan Kumar from Coimbatore and Yuva Kumar from Bengaluru both representing Hero Motorsports Team Rally finished a distinct fourth and fifth.

In the Super Sport 260 to 460cc GroupB class Rajesh Swami from Raigad representing VM Motorsports was the winner followed by Syed Aqib a privateer from Mudigere in second with 1min 55sec difference, finished third was Bengalurian Hemanth M from VM Motorsports with a difference of  1min 9sec. Privateers Suhas SS from Piriyapatna was fourth while Darshan Chaure from Nashik finished fifth.

In the Scooter upto 210cc GroupB class Syed Asif Ali from Petronas TVS Racing with a total time of 59min 37sec was the winner followed by his teammates Karthik N with 38sec difference in second and   Shamim Khan with further 20sec difference finished third. Privateer Dilip Kumar M from Bengaluru was fourth while Goutham N from VM Motorsports finished fifth.

Aishwarya Pissay from Petronas TVS Racing returns back to National Rally with a winning margin of 2min 14sec in Womens class upto 450cc GroupC over Somyya Chaudhary a privateer from Jaipur, Ernakulam's Misriya KS representing Team Ace Mobikes completed the podium. Sneha CC from Thrissur representing VM Motorsports finished fourth, while her teammate Ryhana Bee from Chennai was DNF.

Super Stock 165 to 260cc GroupD, Jagadeesh G from Coimbatore with a total time of 59min 24sec was the winner of the class followed by Navaneeth Kumar from Pondicherry in second with 19sec difference, Nitish Chaudhari from Mumbai with 5sec difference finished in third. Jes David from Jaipur with 12sec difference was fourth and Joseph Jinu AA from Ernakulam with further 19sec further difference was fifth.

Devaraj Venkatesh from Bengaluru with a total time of 1hr 02min 14sec was the winner of Super Stock 260 to 450cc GroupD class, with a difference of 59sec Chetan B Hosatti from Hubli finished in second position while Durgesh J from Mysuru representing Team Ace Mobikes was third, while his two team mates from Ernakulam Arun Joy M and Sreekanth Komana finished in fourth and fifth respectively. Nilesh Thakare from Nashik finished sixth.

Shadab Karim Chishti from Indore was the winner of Star of Madhya Pradesh class followed by Harshit Chourasiya from Gurgaon in second.