Karminder Pal Singh is determined to give championship favourite Ishaan Dodhiwala a tough time and has managed to register his second win of the season in five races. Claiming the top podium for Race 1 in the third round of the 2016 Volkswagen Vento Cup, Karminder Pal Singh led Ishaan Dodhiwala and Aditya Pawar throughout the race.
Karminder Pal Singh, starting second on the grid, pulled out one of the best starts to take the lead from Ishaan in the first corner itself. From there, Karminder drove a clean race in front, not giving a single chance to Ishaan to fight back. Keith who had started third, suffered a bad launch and plunged to sixth and then fought back to fourth with Aditya Pawar too far ahead to catch up. Junior Cup driver Jeet Jabakh finished a respectable fifth.
Earlier in the day, Ishaan proved to be the fastest guy around with a pole-setting lap of 1:55:821 showing why he is the championship favourite. It was a closely fought pole position with the top four starters within three tenths of a second. Race 2 on Sunday will see a reversed grid with last year’s junior champ Pradeep Rao starting from pole and Jeet Jabakh from fourth.
