The third round of RMC India took us to Coimbatore, at the brand new CoASTT circuit, built by India’s first F1 driver, Narain Karthikeyan. Bengaluru’s Rishon Rajeev and Nikhilesh Raju, and Rivaan Dev Preetham, the 11-year-old from Chennai, took the honours in their respective categories in the third round of the MECO FMSCI National Karting Championship 2024.
Read the Report from Round 2 here.
Former National Champion and Indian F4 Vice-Champion from 2024, Rishon Rajeev (Birel Art India), topped the Pre-Final and the Final in the Senior Max class. Rishon won the 20-lap Final by 7.4 seconds showing absolute dominance on track. Further Rayo Racing’s Krish Gupta from Mumbai finished second and Ruhaan Alva (MSPORT) from Bengaluru came in third.
Nikhilesh Raju (Peregrine Racing) extended his win streak by winning both the Pre-Final and Final races in the Junior Max category. In fact, Nikhilesh Raju has now won all 3 finals in the Junior Max Class of the championship. He edged out Gurugram’s Aarav Dewan (Leapfrog Racing) in the Final with Eshanth Vengatesan (Chennai, MSPORT) taking P3 spot. In the Pre-Final too Nikhilesh was a comfortable winner while Eshanth finished second, ahead of Aarav.
In the Micro Max finals, Rivaan Dev Preetham led a 1-2 finish for MSPORT. The MSPORT driver finished comfortably ahead of Rehan Khan R and Rayo Racing’s Danish Dalmiya from Mumbai in P3. Earlier, in the Pre-Final, the trio had finished in the same order. Rivaan started from pole and won both the Pre-Finals and Finals, ultimately putting up a dominant display.
Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore City, V. Balakrishnan and District Collector Kranthi Kumar Pati were the chief guests at the prize distribution ceremony.
