The list of the 25 Indian teams that will compete in Season 3 of Force Gurkha RFC India has been announced. While some of the competitors who have participated in the first two editions of RFC India are back for another adrenalin-filled week of extreme offroading, the line-up for Force Gurkha RFC India 2016 sees a lot of prominent offroaders of the country making a debut.
Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh, Bangalore Offroaders Development Association (BODA) and KTM Jeepers from Kerala lead the pack with 4 entries from each of these off-roading clubs. Mumbai’s Team Fairmont and Hyderabad’s Charminar Off Road Adventure Club (CORAC) will each be represented by two teams. V5 Offroaders from Coorg, Mudhogs from Sakleshpur, Northern India Offroad Club (NIOC) and Incredible Offroaders Goa will be represented by one team per club at ‘THE’ off-road motorsport event of the year. Force Gurkha RFC India 2016 will take place in Goa from 22nd July to 29th July.
Two of the competitors, Jagat Nanjappa from V5 Offroaders and Tejinder Singh from Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh, are the winners of Force Gurkha RFC South and North India Chapters respectively which were held earlier this year. As a result, they have earned free automatic entry to Force Gurkha RFC India 2016. Two factory-backed Force Motors teams, led by Malaysian drivers Tan Eng Joo and Mervyn Lim, will be back in the fray trying to retain their top two slots of the previous two editions. Additionally, there are two individual entries from Pune and Hyderabad.
Ashish Gupta, Founder & Director, Cougar Motorsport Pvt. Ltd., the company that organizes RFC India, “It is heartening to see the overwhelming response that we have received this year. With almost two months to go for the event, we have already closed entries. This year’s list of Indian competitors is the best I could have asked for with a balanced mix of new talent, RFC India veterans and seasoned offroaders. I think this is a culmination of all the hard work that we have done and the goodwill we have earned since we launched the event in 2014.”
Following is the list of 25 Indian teams that will be competing in Force Gurkha RFC India 2016:
S.No
Driver
Co Driver
Place
Team
1
Kabir Waraich
Gagan Sachdeva
Chandigarh
Gerrari Offroaders
2
Gurmeet Virdi
Kirpal Singh Tung
3
Gurpratap Singh
Sanbir Singh Dhaliwal
4
Tejinder Singh
Harpreet Singh
5
Bijender Singh
Gajender Singh
New Delhi
NIOC
6
Sameer Chunawala
Amrut Kadam
Mumbai
Team Fairmont
7
Sajid Fakih
Imran Kazi
8
Daulat Chaudhary
Jay Kumar
Pune
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9
Prashanth GV
Pradeep Gowda
Bangalore
BODA
10
Lokesh Shivaraj
Rohith KR
11
Vivek Kuriakose
Ashok Kuriakose
12
Pradeep Kumar
Prithviraj AC
13
Narthan Byramudi
Satish Kumar
Sakleshpur
Mudhogs
14
Jagat Nanjappa
Chethan Chengappa
Coorg
V5 Offroaders
15
Sam Kurian Karaickal
Guhan Shetty
Kerala
KTM Jeepers
16
Kurian Kurian
Prem Kumar
17
Anand Manjooran
George Verghese
18
Raju Paul
Kevin
19
Chaitanya Challa
Shabarish Jagarapu
Hyderabad
Team Hyderabad
20
Rajsekhara Prabhu
Arun Parikshat
Team Mars
21
Abinav Nukala
T Laxmikanth
CORAC
22
Jitender Raju
Sukesh Reddy
23
Tejas Prakash Shindolkar
Pushkar Audi
Goa
Incredible Offroaders Goa
24
Tan Eng Joo
Tan Choon Hong
Force Motors Ltd
25
Merwyn Lim
Hamizan Bin Abdul Hamid
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