Sweet double for Shyam Shankar

Shyam Shankar of Moto-Rev India scored a double victory in the opening round of the FMSCI-MMSC-Sidvin Motorcyle championship at the Kari Motor Speedway on Sunday. The 28-year-old professional bike racer from Chennai, who won the opening race on Saturday, enjoyed an early lead and capitalised on it to score a sweet double in the Group C 165cc open class. Shyam also came on top in the one-make championship winning both the races in the Yamaha YZF R15 class. The results: Group A: Superbikes (600cc, Open, 12 laps): 1. Krishnan Rajini (Moto-Rev India) 13mins, 06.981secs; 2. Deepak Ravikumar 13:33.866; 3. M. Gautam (Moto-Rev) 13:52.051. Group B (165cc Open: Race 1: 1. Harry Sylvester (TVS Racing) 12:21.433; 2. Shyam Shankar (Moto-Rev) 12:39.928; 3. P Karthick (TVS Racing) 12:53.424. Race 2: 1. K Jagan (TVS Racing) 12:14.578; 2. Deepak Ravikumar 12:21.513; 3. Harry Sylvester (TVS Racing) 12:21.895. Group C (165cc Open): 1. Shyam Shankar (Moto-Rev) 13:33.834; 2. Sumit Lucas Toppo (Performance Racing) 13:40.299; 3. N. Abhishek (Moto-Rev) 13:45.212. Group D (165cc Novice): Race 1: 1. R. Ramesh Kumar (Moto-Rev) 11:08.400; 2. P. Sandesh (Performance Racing) 11:14.448; 3. Arun Muthukrishnan 11:24.931. Race 2 (8 laps): 1. R. Ramesh Kumar (Moto-Rev) 11:09.555; 2. P. Sandesh (Performance Racing) 11:21.135; 3. Kamlesh Thakkur (Sparks Racing) 11:27.493. Group D (130cc Novice): 1. Kamlesh Thakkur (Sparks Racing) 12:04.863; Shmailsen (Moto-Rev) 12:11.389; 3. Abdul Wahab (TVS Racing) 12:16.496. One-Make Championship Honda – CBF Sunner Open: 1. Thamarai Kannan 12:08.799; 2. R. Ramesh Kumar 12:08.832; 3. G.R. Santhosh 12:09.434. CBR 150R Open: 1. Arvind Ganesh 14:17.490; 2. Sumit Lucas Toppo 14:24.890; 3. N. Abhishek 14:27.204. CBR 250R Open: M. Gautam (Moto-Rev) 12:26.192; 2. A. Prabhu (Moto-Rev) 12:30.424; 3. Sudhakar Kesavan 12:32.889. Yamaha – YZF R15 Open: Race 1: Shyam Shankar 14:06.903; 2. S.K. Prakash 14:13.906; 3. S. Padmanabhan 14:17.192. Race 2: 1. Shyam Shankar 16:06.935; D Dinesh Kumar 14:15.117; 3. M. Sudhakar 14:15.150. YZF R15 Novice: 1. R. Ramesh Kumar 11:24.795; 2. P. Sandesh 11:29.476; 3, Meka Vidhuraj 11:51.124. TVS – Apache RTR 180 Open: 1. S.K. Prakash 14:27.380; 2. P. Ananth Raj 14:28.493; 3. S. Padmanabhan 14:29.516. Novice (8 laps): 1. Rahul G. Rathod 12:06.726; 2. S. Prem Hari 12:13.375; 3. Jonathan Clifford 12:14.835.