Coimbatore, 14 November: Augustine Boby beat Shatveer Shetty by 0.032 seconds in the F1300 Novice Cup on the opening day of Round 2 of the CTR-JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2026 at the Kari Motor Speedway on Saturday. Mehul Agarwal and Deepak Ravikumar also won after late overtakes, in LGB Formula 4 and the Indian Junior Touring Cars respectively.
The Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup Amateur race had several restarts and a last-lap collision.
LGB Formula 4
Dark Don Racing’s Mehul Agarwal won the 15-lap race by 0.237 seconds from team-mate Arya Singh. Singh took the lead from pole-sitter Agarwal on the opening lap, and Meco Racing’s Dhruvh Goswami moved up to second soon after. A collision between two Ahura Racing cars brought out the safety car and wiped out Singh’s early advantage.
After the restart Singh held off Goswami and rebuilt his lead, while Agarwal fought back into second. Dark Don rookie Aditya Patnaik passed Goswami and kept him behind for several laps, which helped Singh and Agarwal pull clear. Agarwal went past Singh with two laps left. Goswami recovered to third, ahead of Raghul Rangasamy. Patnaik was fifth overall and first among the Rookies, ahead of Ashok Lal and Vikram Moodigere. Agarwal set the fastest lap of 1:16.944.
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup
Vadodara’s Kabir Sahoch kept his winning run going in the Amateur class, finishing 0.979 seconds ahead of Saurav Sanjay Dey after two red-flag interruptions and a six-lap restart. Dey briefly took the lead before Sahoch won it back with an inside overtake. A last-lap collision between Paramjeet Singh and Pushpendra Kumar Markandey let Brandon Dsouza move from ninth on the grid to third. Dey had the fastest lap of 1:19.396.
In the Pro class, Bengaluru’s Anish Shetty led from pole to flag and won by 3.089 seconds over Senthil Kumar, with Navaneeth Kumar third. Allwin Xavier climbed from ninth to fourth. Shetty set the fastest lap of 1:16.372.
JK Tire Levitas Cup
Mumbai’s Pratik Sonawane won both races in the Gentleman class from pole. In the first, Rookie rivals Kaveen Rajapaksa and Aadam Junaid fought for second overall until Junaid hit the barriers on lap seven and the safety car came out. Sonawane finished ahead of Chetan Korada and Ashwin Pugalagiri, and Rajapaksa won the Rookie class ahead of Shreyans Mittal and Ajay Sankar. Sonawane’s fastest lap was 1:24.059.
He won the second race by 1.418 seconds over Rajapaksa, who also completed a Rookie double. Pugalagiri and Korada were second and third in Gentleman. Junaid recovered from his crash to take second in Rookie, ahead of Mittal. Sonawane’s fastest lap was 1:24.529.
Touring cars and Super Stock
Arka Motorsports’ Arjun Narendran won the Indian Super Touring Cars race by 7.288 seconds after holding off an early challenge from Arjun Balu. Team N1 Intervalve’s Biren Pithawalla passed Balu for second late on. Narendran also set the fastest lap, 1:13.485. In the Indian Touring Cars, Team Performance Racing’s Balaprasath A won ahead of Ramcharan Chandran and Vidyaprakash Damodaran.
In the Indian Junior Touring Cars, Team Performance Racing’s Srinivas Teja won the first race by 2.727 seconds after regaining the lead from team-mate Anirudha Arvind following an early mistake. Ravikumar recovered from 15th after a stall at the start to finish third. The second race was a close one between the same drivers. Ravikumar led for much of it before Teja passed him on lap nine, but Ravikumar hit back on the final lap after slight contact and won by 0.308 seconds, with Arvind third.
In Super Stock, DTS Racing’s Diljith T S won both races. He finished ahead of Deepa S John and Krishanu Dutta Bhuyan in the first, and ahead of Lal Kattikulam Bharathan and John in the second.
F1300 Novice Cup
A late safety-car restart set up the closest finish of the day. Pranav Ramasamy took the early lead, but DTS Racing’s Boby moved to the front from fifth on the grid. Meco Racing’s Shetty had slipped down the order from pole, then recovered and passed Ramasamy on the inside late on to take second. Ramasamy was third. Boby set the fastest lap of 1:16.953.
Racing resumes on Sunday for the final day of Round 2. The races will be webcast live from 9.30 am on 15 November on JK Tyre Motorsport’s Facebook and YouTube channels.
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