Teenager Chiranth Vishwanath roars to a double victoryDouble delight for Savion Sabu, Senthil Kumar, Anandhu

In what turned out to be the race of the weekend, Chiranth Vishwanath, the 19-year-old from Bengaluru, held off his arch-rival and Petronas TVS Racing team-mate, Pune’s Sarthak Chavan, for the second time in two days to complete a superb double in the premier Super Sport 301-400cc Open class as the third round of the MRF Indian National Racing Challenge 2W 2026 concluded at the Madras International Circuit.

Super Sport 301-400cc Open:

The 19-year-old Chiranth, starting the race from P8 due to a penalty, moved into second spot by Turn-4 in the very first lap of race1 before slipping past leader Sarthak, who turned 20 yesterday, half-way through the six-lap race. Thereafter, he stepped up the pace even more, setting a lap record of 01 minute 47.198 seconds in the process for a commanding win. Sarthak, realising he couldn’t keep up with Chiranth, decided to maintain his P2 position for points while 18-year-old Rakshith Dave completed a podium sweep for Petronas TVS Racing team.

The six-lap race2, delayed by about 30 minutes following sharp showers in the afternoon, provided high thrills as the country’s top riders battled it out. Chiranth, winner of Race-1 on Saturday with a record lap time, Sarthak and their younger team-mate Rakshith Dave, took turns to lead the pack. In fact, Rakshith looked set for a win when he led comfortably before almost slipping when negotiating a puddle of water which cost him three spots and he eventually finished fourth behind Thiruvallur’s Mohamed Mikail (MadRabbit Racing).

Up ahead, leader Sarthak and Chiranth were locked in a titanic fight. The decisive moment in the closing stages when Chiranth roared past Sarthak who had a “moment” and lost position. The Bengalurean went on to register his second win of the weekend while Sarthak again had to be content with a P2 finish.

Pro-Stock 200cc Open:

In race1, Bengaluru's 19 year old Savion Sabu was the winner followed by Senthil Kumar from Coimbatore in second and Amamath Menon K from Kozhikode  finished third. 

Savion Sabu delivered another strong performance as he led a maiden podium sweep for MadRabbit Racing team besides achieving a double. Savion managed to stave off close attention from team-mates Mohamed Mikail (Thiruvallur) and AS James (Bengaluru).

Super Stock 301-400cc Open:

In race1, Young Kabilesh Rajini Krishnan’s (RACR Castrol Power1) sequence of three wins ended as he finished third behind the experienced Rockers Racing pair of Senthil Kumar and Mathana Kumar.

In race2, Santhil was the winner followed by Abdul Basim RS from Chennai  in second and P Sri Harsha from Hyderabad finished third.

Stock 301-400 Novice:

In race1, Anandhu KK was the winner followed by Venugopalan S also from Chennai in second, Divy Parmar from  Mumbai finished third.

Local challenger Venugopalan S (Motul Sparks Racing) scored his first win in the extremely competitive race. The podium spots were up for grabs until the last lap when Venugopalan surged ahead, with Trichy’s Kavicholaiarasan (Speed Up Racing) and Shyam Sundar (M3 Torque Motorsports) finishing behind him in that order.

Stock 165cc Novice

Yashwant was the winner of Race1, followed by Saranjith in second and Dev Agastya from Bengaluru finished third.

Hariharan R from Coimbatore was the winner followed by Akarsh Jangam from Vijaywada in second, while Faruk finished third in race2.

Surya Reddy (RACR Castrol Power1) from Siddipet survived a strong challenge from Yashwant Varma (Motul Sparks Racing) from Visakhapatnam to win the Race that also witnessed a couple of incidents leading to the reduction of laps from scheduled six to four. Thrissur's Saranjith KM from Veedol C2 Racing finished third in race1.

Super Stock 165cc Intermediate

Earlier, KK Anandhu from Chennai delivered two wins for Veedol C2 Racing for a grand double.

In the morning, he won the Stock 301-400cc race starting from P7 on the grid and then topped this class, later in the day after pole-sitter Ann Jennifer retired in the very first lap which ended her unbeaten run across two rounds. Bengalurian D Annish Samson from Motul Sparks Racing finished second and his teammate Faruk Ali Sohtun from East Kashi completed the podium.

It was the second top finish for Anandhu as loalite Jennifer from Motul Sparks Racing finished second with less than a second difference, Anand Kumar S also a localite from Ipone Yakuza Racing finished third in race2.

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Expert (Apache RR 310):

Hari Haran R from Coimbatore snatched a narrow victory in the Expert class over points leader Rajender Beedani (Hyderabad) for his maiden success this season. Kamal Navas from Chennai finished third in race1,

Rajender won the race2, followed by Hari Haran and Bengalurian AS James finished third.

Women (Apache RTR 200):

Poojitha Anil Kumar from Bengaluru continued her remarkable run by notching her third straight win to consolidate her position on the leader board. Pune's Drishya Nair with over 12sec difference settled for second and Hyderabad's Hannah Akkineni Joshitha with further 4sec difference was third.

Rookie (Apache RTR 200):

In a thrilling race, Vijayawada’s Jangam Akarsh held off Dev Agastya Reddy (Bengaluru) and Godwin Clarence C (Coimbatore) for a good win in the Rookie class. Less than a second separated the three podium finishers.

Pothu Vignesh from Mancherial, Telangana, notched his third win in six starts to finish second and maintained his top position in the points tally in the Experts category. Bengaluru’s Dev Agastya Reddy finished second, ahead of Godwin Clarence from Coimbatore.

Media (Apache RR 310): 

Noida's Ansh Srivastava from Auto Today was the winner followed by Pune's  Pranav Singh Rawat from ZigWheels in second, while  Delhi's Mohammed Inamul Hasan from GoldenEyeSig finished third.