Coimbatore 8 Aug 2010:

The second round of INRC Rally De Coimbatore ended on a high note for Red Rooster Racing with the top two podium finishes taken up by Naren Kumar (co-driver Ram Kumar) and Vikram Mathias (PVS Murthy). The third place went to Arjun Balu (Sujith Kumar) from MRF Racing in the 2000 cc N+ category.

It was the local lad Naren Kumar (co-driver Ram Kumar) of Red Rooster Racing who set the scorching pace in the very first stage on the rough and dusty terrain and never looked back. Last round (Nashik) winner - Gaurav Gill of Team MRF - drove well to catch up but could not match the timings of the Red Rooster driver. At the end of the third stage, team MRF's champion driver was behind by a huge 25 seconds, closely followed by Vikram Mathias (PVS Murthy) and Amittrajit Ghosh (Ashwin Naik), both of Team Red Rooster. The fourth stage saw the first casualty with Gaurav Gill (Musa Sherif) suffering a ball joint break which knocked him out of this race.

At the end of stage six, Naren kept his lead of 2 minutes+ over Mathais, however, last year's winner of the INRC Rally De Coimbatore - Red Rooster's Amittrajit Ghosh (Aswin Naik) who were in a strong third place suffered a technical failure in the transport stage putting them in a compromising situation for the remainder of the rally. What could have been a 1-2-3 sweep for team Red Rooster was now out of reach with team MRF Arjun Balu (Sujith Kumar) taking the third position.