Polo Cup back with more changes

May 17, 2012 |

chennai

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Motor racing

The third season of the Volkswagen Polo Cup will witness a sea change in the machinery as well as format when it kicks off at the Kari Motor Speedway in Coimbatore on July 6.

The organisers have announced that the most significant change will be the shift from diesel to petrol engine.

The changes are expected to make the season stronger, faster and more exciting. The new petrol car will help young drivers enhance their skills with a more powerful car.

Participants are split into three categories — junior, pro and master. Drivers aged between 16 to 26 years and with experience limited to eight races or less in the last five years (in a national championship) will be part of junior category.

Drivers aged between 16 to 26 years with experience of more than eight races will be part of the pro category. Master category will comprise drivers who are 26 years or above at the time of registration.

Prize money for the race winners are Rs 50,000, Rs 40,000 and Rs 30,000 for the first, second and third positions respectively.

Fee for junior and pro categories is Rs 7 lakh while master category participants have to pay Rs 14 lakhs for the entire season.

There are three Chennai drivers — Sandeep Kumar, Prashanth Tharani Singh, Alisha Abdulla — in the line-up.

Each driver has an option to refinance the fee by using their Polo bonnet to display their respective sponsorship branding.

“After two successful seasons of Polo R Cup, we are looking forward to this year’s championship with a brand new car.

It is a strategic decision for us to shift from diesel to petrol as we want to offer our drivers a more powerful racing machine.

Polo R Cup programme has set benchmarks in Indian motorsports by being focussed on professionalism, technology and safety.

It has grown stronger every year and has cemented its place,” said Prithviraj Siddappa, head of Motorsport, Volkswagen India.

Drivers line-up Sourav Bandyopadhyay (Mumbai), Arpit Dev (Pune), Mihir Dharkar (Mumbai), Deigo Duez (Mexico), Anthony George (Kerala), Avdumber Hede (Goa), Tabish Khan (Delhi), Ajay Kini (Bangalore), A. Sandeep Kumar (Chennai), Yatin Magu (Delhi), Angad Singh Matharoo (Chandigarh), Rahil Noorani (Mumbai), Hanoosh S (Hyderabad), Munjal Savla (Mumbai), Siddharth Sharma (Delhi), Prashanth Tharani Singh (Chennai), Niranjan Todkari (Aurangabad), Donovan Vaz (Goa), Ameya Walwalkar (Mumbai), Abdullah Alisha (Chennai).

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