Archives July 2017

Go Karting Champion Yash to Join Momentum Team

 

Yash Aradhya GO KARTING CHAMPION TO JOIN TEAM Momentum MotorsportsDRIVER LINE-UP

Team Momentum has today announced that Yash Aradhya will join the team Momentum Motorsports, a team promoted by Rasheed Khan. Yash Aradhya, the 14-year-old child prodigy from Bangalore, studying in class 9 at Bishop Cotton Boys’ School and a multiple National Go Karting Champion. Yash started his motorsports career in 2012 at the age of 9 (in Go-Karting) under the able tutelage of Akbar Ebrahim current president of FMSCI and made a big impression in the last 5 years by winning 9 National Championship, 30 Race Wins and 5 Awards and being crowned as the ‘Best Karter of the Year 2014’

In the year 2017, Yash graduated from Go-Karting to Formula LGB 1300 and made an impressive start in debut MECO Formula Junior Racing Series 2017 by being crowned as the Vice-Champion. In the current year, Yash will also be racing in the MECO Motorsports FMSCI Rotax Max National Karting Championship 2017, JK Tyre Racing Championship 2017 with team MECO Racing and the MMSC FMSCI Indian National Racing Championship 2017 with Momentum Motorsports.

Team Momentum principal Rasheed Khan commented: “We are very pleased to welcome Yash to team Momentum motorsports. I have been following his career for many years and we have always stayed in close contact ever since. Yash is rightly considered to be one of the top talents in Indian motorsports, and I have always been convinced of his potential”.

On this occasion, the excited Yash Aradhya said “I am very happy to be part of team Momentum and liked their professional approach and discipline towards the sport, I am confident that team Momentum will bring in the best of me in the MRF MMSC INRC Championship 2017. The team is extremely charged, motivated and focused to get the best out of the man and the machine. I am optimistic that we will achieve good results together”

Yash Aradhya will complete his first race with Team Momentum at Chennai on 19th to 23rd of July 2017.

Mahaveer wins maiden BOSS GP race

Mahaveer Raghunathan clinched his maiden victory in the formula class of the Boss GP as he produced a flawless display of racing in the fourth round of the championship at Zolder, Belgium, on Saturday. The victory has helped the Chennai youngster, who represents PS Racing by Coloni Motorsport, take the championship lead with 149 points. He is now two points ahead of Austria’s Johann Ledermair.

Mahaveer who started from the third spot on the grid emerged on top in the 16 lap race followed by Italy’s Salvatore De Plano. In qualifying, Mahaveer, driving a Lola Gibson Tech 3.4 V8, had produced the fastest lap in Formula class (third overall) with an effort of 1:20.541 min in his last lap (11 in total).

Delighted with his maiden win, Mahaveer said his performance in the qualifying session boosted his confidence. “After a rainy practice day on Friday, I was worried about the weather for the weekend. Luckily, sunny weather today made the best conditions for the qualifying. I have to thank my team for providing a wonderful race car to compete in,” he said.