Daijiworld Media Network – Kolkata (SB)

Kolkata, Sep 24: Team MRF’s Gaurav Gill and co-driver Musa Sherif from Kumble, Kasargod clocked the best time in the Spectator Special Stage to win the Rally de Kolkata, the third round of the Speed-Indian National Rally Championship, sponsored by Bharat Petroleum, at the Santoshpur Stadium, recently. Gill, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Cedia, was two seconds quicker than arch-rival city driver Amittrajit Ghosh over two laps of the 1.2 km long circuit to bag the overall honour along with the 2000cc N+ category. Amittrajit, was driving with co-driver Ashwin Naik.

Gaurav Gill and Musa Sherif were the quickest on all the three days to pick up 16 points to mark his presence in the National Championship stakes after two non-finishes in the previous rounds in Coimbatore and Bangalore. Unless the pending protests change the point positions, Amittrajit will trail Gill by a narrow margin in the INRC with three rounds to go. Now Gaurav Gill and Musa Sherif are leading the championship with 29 points.