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Sanam Sekhon, hailed because the Drift champ of India, dominated proceedings on the inaugural JK Tyre Drift Problem as he swept unopposed to victory in two out of three classes on the nation’s first-ever official drifting competitors. Seasoned drifter Mudit Grover additionally completed on the podium in all three classes of the JK Tyre Drift Problem. Sekhon seemed poised and in management as he slithered his specially-prepped Lexus GS 300 sideways across the corners and Mudit in his BMW E46 showcased his spectacular expertise on the twisting drift observe on the Buddh Worldwide Circuit in a masterful show of tyre-smoking automotive management.
The Chandigarh-based driver gained the D1 class with a whopping haul of 744 factors, together with his closest rival Jugraj Singh Bhurjee, driving a BMW M3, solely choosing up a rating of 476. Mudit Grover, with 286 factors, sealed third in his BMW E46.
Sekhon scored 460 factors to additionally win the D2 class with Mudit Grover (262 factors) and Mugdha Grover, driving the Mercedes C200 Ok, (156 factors) finishing the rostrum. His hopes of finishing an unbeaten run, nevertheless, had been dashed with Mudit beating him to victory with 700 factors to Sekhon’s 636, with Samyak Kapoor on 281 factors a distant third.
Factors had been awarded by a three-member skilled panel of worldwide judges comprising Mr. Taniguchi Atsushi from Japan, Mr. Tanakorn Lertyaovarit from Thailand and India’s personal drift skilled Mr. Alistair Woodham.
Drivers had been judged on a number of parameters together with line, angle, fashion and pace. The three classes – D1, D2 and Open – had been differentiated by tyre width. Vehicles competing within the D1 class had been operating on tyres that had been 215-255mm vast. The utmost permitted tyre width within the D2 class was 205mm, whereas all opponents, whatever the width of their tyres had been eligible for the Open class.
Drifting is a motorsport self-discipline that rewards talent, precision and automotive management over outright pace. It includes drivers throwing their automobiles right into a slide and utilizing oversteer to go sideways via a nook at pace.
The sight of the automobiles, balancing on a knife-edge, sliding round a nook, wheels smoking, is a spectacle to behold which has made Drifting standard with followers, particularly the youthful technology.
Backed by the Indian motorsports physique the FMSCI, the JK Tyre Drift Problem was the primary officially-backed drifting occasion to be held within the nation. Organised by motorsport pioneers JK Tyre, it launched followers to one more motorsport self-discipline, with a whole bunch turning as much as watch the occasion in individual and lots of extra tuning in to the dwell stream.
