The first round of the Indian Rally Championship, the Mahindra Adventure Rally of Maharashtra, got underway amidst the picturesque hills of Nashik.
At the end of the first day of rallying Gaurav Gill (co-driven by Musa Sherif) of Team Mahindra Adventure leads the event, the only tarmac rally of the season, with a commanding lead over his team-mates Amittrajit Ghosh (co-driven by Ashwin Naik) and Sunny Sidhu (co-driven by PVS Murthy).
Gill finished the six Special Stages with a total time of 57 minutes and 28 seconds. It wasn’t all too easy for the defending champion, though, with Samir Thapar of JCT Rallying posing a serious challenge to the Mahindra. In fact, even before the rally began, Gill had remarked that the power deficit of his Mahindra SuperXUV when compared to Thapar’s …
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