Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship: Sarthak Chavan, the 18-year-old from Pune and Petronas TVS Racing team’s spearhead, shrugged off a crash in the free practice session this morning, to snatch the pole position a few hours later by topping the qualifying session in the premier Pro-Stock 301-400cc Open category as the fourth round of the MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship 2025 commenced at the Madras International Circuit, here on Friday.
Sarthak, who crashed during the morning’s practice session when he was 1.1 seconds off the pace, put in a near-flawless hot lap in the qualifying, clocking 01 minute, 48.047 secs around the 3.712 Kms circuit to warm up for the battle ahead with the championship leader from Hyderabad, 27-year-old Rahil Pillarisetty (RACR Castrol Power1), who took P2 (01:48.084). Rahil leads Sarthak by nine points on the leaderboard.
Completing the front row of the grid for Saturday’s Race-1 was 17-year-old from Chennai, Rakshith Dave (01:49.575), also from Petronas TVS Racing, who showed impressive pace to outqualify fancied and experienced riders.
