Triple win for Vinay Madaiah in inaugural fmsci Hill Climb Nationals

Vinay S Madaiah of Trackmeisters team won three classes in the Race to the Clouds event, the first round of the MSAK fmsci Indian National Hill Climb Championship 2025 (INHCC) in Kuppam, near KGF.

Promoted and organised by Motor Sport Club of Karnataka, the Hill Climb discipline got the National status only this year, and it saw only 31 entries across all classes but the competition was fierce. Vinay’s precision run got him two more victories in the Indian Open and INRC Rally cars classes to make it a historic triple on debut.

Driving a Honda City Vtec built by Joel Joseph of Race Concepts, the Bengaluru-born Vinay, topped the premier 1151–1650cc Pro-stock petrol class clocking 2minutes, 03.804seonds to emerge as the “Fastest Driver of the Meet” on the 2.5km track on Mallappa Konda, 13km from Kuppam in Andhra Pradesh. He also won the Indian Open and INRC Rally cars classes.

Karthik Arumugam won the ‘1651cc and above’ class in 2:13.220 and came second to Vinay in two other classes. In the Up to 1150cc category, Mohammed Sahil of Ideal Racing took a commanding victory with a 2:10.264 run.

Kohima’s Geetalata Rai won the Ladies Open class in 2:42.217 beating Chennai’s Soundari Ananthraj, the 2w National Hill Climb round winner, who stayed back, to try her hand in the 4w class on a borrowed car. Kavya Kumari secured third despite mechanical setbacks.

“I grew up watching Hill Climbs and I am extremely passionate about these events since childhood and it was dream come true moment,” said Vinay of Trackmeisters, the racing club that runs affordable motorsports events.