Chennai, Feb 9 (Agency) Competitors will be aiming for glory with titles in almost all categories in the fourth and final round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI National Car Racing Championship 2021 to be held at the MMRT here from February 11 to 13. The only category where the title is sealed is the Super Stock as Deepak Ravikumar (Performance Racing) from Chennai enjoys an unsurmountable lead after five wins from six starts. The championship in two other saloon cars classes – the Indian Touring Cars and Indian Junior Touring Cars – is still wide open. As for youngsters, several of them have already made a mark in the premier MRF Formula 1600 category. Two teenagers, Bengaluru’s Chirag Ghorpade (153 points, 2 wins) and Shahan Ali Mohsin from Agra (140, 4 wins) are best placed to win the championship. However, the chances of Rishon Rajeev (110), also from Bengaluru, and Coimbatore’s K Suriyavarathan (105, one win) cannot be discounted since a maximum of 75 points are available from three races.
Coimbatore veteran Arjun Balu (Race Concepts) heads the table in the ITC class and leads Rayo Racing’s Jeet Jhabakh by 18.5 points with a maximum of 25 points to be had from the double-header. Another Coimbatore racer, Charen Chandran is ahead of Hatim Shabbir Jamnagarwala (Performance Racing, Chennai) by 13.5 points in the IJTC class going into the final round. In the Formula LGB 1300 category, the race for the title is poised on a knifeedge. Two Momentum Motorsport team-mates, Tijil Rao (85) from Bengaluru, Deepak Ravikumar (72), head the championship table, ahead of Nellore’s Viswas Vijayaraj (DTS Racing, 64), Ruhaan Alva (MSport, 59) from Bengaluru, and Kolkata racer Arya Singh (DTS Racing, 58), all having a realistic shot at the title with a maximum of 50 points to be won. Chennai’s Sandeep Kumar and Fahad Kutty from Mumbai currently head the points table in the Volkswagen Polo and MRF Saloon Cars (Toyota Etios) categories, both of which are triple-headers. There will be live streaming of the races on Facebook and the MMSC website.