Daruvala to make debut at Fortec
New Delhi: Young Indian driver Jehan Daruvala will embark on his single-seater racing career with the reputed Fortec Motorsport squad in the Formula Renault Renault 2.0 championship after three successful seasons in karting. The Vijay Mallya-backed driver on Monday confirmed that he will be doing seven rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup (NEC), three rounds of the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and a couple in the Formula Renault 2.0 AlPS. The NEC series is expected to get underway in April and that alone costs around 300,000 pounds a season, clearly suggesting that one can’t just survive on skills in the expensive world of motorsport. The 16-year-old from Mumbai is aware that the required transition from karts to junior single seaters could pave the way for bigger things including his ‘dream’ Formula 1 drive with Force India.
Hero title sponsor of Fed Cup
New Delhi: Two-wheeler manufacturing giant Hero MotoCorp ltd has signed a three-year deal with The All India Football Federation (AIFF) to be the title sponsors for the Federation Cup and the I-league. Pawan Munjal, the company’s CEO, said, “Having been the title sponsor of the Hero Indian Super league, we are now taking the next logical step of becoming the title sponsor of the much-followed Federation Cup and the I-league.”
Wadoo is Bharat FC’s latest recruit
Pune: New I-league entrant Bharat FC fortified their backline further by adding experienced Jammu and Kashmir defender Mehrajuddin Wadoo to their squad on Monday. Wadoo, who has already joined the club’s pre-season training camp, is on loan from Indian Super league side FC Pune City for the 2014-15 season, a media release from the Kalyani Group-owned Bharat FC said. Bharat FC will be playing their inaugural I-league season, which kicks off on January 17.
ice skating C’Ship on Jan 3-4
Gurgaon: More than 100 skaters will participate in the 2015 National Ice Skating Championship to be held at the ice skating rink iSKATE, located on the sixth floor of Ambience Mall here on January 3-4, the Ice Skating Association of India (ISAI) announced on Monday. “The event will witness more than 100 Indian skaters in the age group of below 10 years to 19 years and above from the international and national circuits, namely United States, Russia, New Zealand, Telengana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, competing for glory in figure skating,” ISAI said in a statement. “The international participants are Indian citizens who wish to bring the culture and popularity of this sport prevalent in their current home countries to India. This exposure to international talent will help lift the performance standards of all the participants.” Some well known athletes participating in the event are former champions Anup Kumar Yama, Avani Tekriwal, Nikhil Pingle, Pratham Tated, Aanya Singh and Ishita Kapoor.
Bharath Raj elected fmsci chief
Chennai: R. Bharath Raj, chairman of the Karnataka Motor Sports Club, was unanimously elected president of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) here Monday. Bharath succeeds J. Prithviraj of Coimbatore Auto Sports Club, who completed his one-year term. Vijay Mallya was unanimously elected the chairman of honour, while Madras Motor Sports Club’s K.D. Madan was unanimous choice for vice-president of the FMSCI.
Thakur wins cycling event
Mohali: Hero Action Team, India’s first professionally managed mountain biking team, dominated proceedings at the second edition of Decathlon Sports Carnival here with Devendra Thakur finishing top in the keenly contested cycling event. Devendra won the gruelling race by finishing the 36km race in just under 50 minutes while his teammate Shiven Sharma finished a close second in the event. Sanchit Sharma finished fourth to complete the team’s domination. All the five members of the Action Team - Ankush Arya, Devendra, Gurman Reen, Sanchit Sood and Shiven participated in the individual cyclothon event organised as part of this three-day mega sports event.