VW Polo Cup ready for Grand Finale

National VW Polo Cup ready for Grand Finale

Polo R Cup 2013

Grand Finale of Polo R Cup 2013 – A battle among the South, West and North for the title

· Championship goes down to wire with only 47 points separating the top five
· Prashanth Tharani (256 points, Chennai) leading the Polo R Cup Championship followed by Rahil Noorani (232 points, Mumbai) and Angad Singh Matharoo (222 points, Chandigarh)

Pune/Greater Noida, November 28, 2013 – The battle for championship is yet again down to wire. Prashanth (Chennai) leads the charts with 256 points followed closely by Rahil (Mumbai) and Angad Singh Matharoo (Chandigarh) with 232 points and 222 points respectively. Prashanth’s brother, Karthik Tharani (Chennai) with 218 points and Junior Cup driver Yatin Magu (Delhi) with 209 points who could also surprise with top performances to get ahead of others. It is a fight between the South, West and North with 5 drivers having a clear shot at the title. The Grand Finale, Round 4, will continue at the BIC, Greater Noida between November 30 and December 01.

The top five drivers of Polo R Cup 2013 are closely placed on the championship standings and it could be anyone’s title with three races to compete. With the drivers having the flexibility of choosing their nine best results out of the 10 races of the year, it could be anyone of the top five coming through as the champion. Besides the usual races, there will be a special support race comprising all women. These international women race drivers are from Scandinavia and East Europe and will be racing in India for the first time. They will be racing in Volkswagen Race Polo TDIs in the Ultima Queens’ Cup. With Buddh International Circuit playing the perfect host for races, the action in this season–ender is one to watch out for. Other attractions would include stunt performances in Polo race cars between the sessions.

Overall Championship Points after 7 Races:

Sr No	Name Of The Driver	Origin	Total Points Of Rounds 1 & 2	Round 3			Total Points of Round 3	Total Points
Sr No	Name Of The Driver	Origin	Total Points Of Rounds 1 & 2	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Total Points of Round 3	Total Points
1	Prashanth Tharani	Chennai	164	DNS	32	60	92	256
2	Rahil Noorani	Mumbai	132	60	8	32	100	232
3	Angad Matharoo	Chandigarh	100	48	40	34	122	222
4	Karthik Tharani	Chennai	78	40	60	40	140	218
5	Yatin Magu	New Delhi	103	34	24	48	106	209
6	Samarth Jaiswal	Allahbad	89	28	34	14	76	165
7	Hanoosh Surapaneni	Hyderabad	60	32	30	28	90	150
8	Maninder Singh	New Delhi	67	22	26	30	78	145
9	Niranjan Todkari	Aurangabad	73	26	14	26	66	139
10	Lee Keshav Gupta	New Delhi	41	30	48	18	96	137
11	Anshul Shah	Nagpur	46	24	28	22	74	120
12	Gowdham Raj Raju M	Coimbatore	62	16	22	10	48	110
13	Gaurav Mehta	Pune	79	20	4	DNS	24	103
14	Divijraj Thakran	Haryana	48	18	20	12	50	98
15	Rakesh Ram Kumar	Chennai	45	6	18	20	44	89
16	Tanmay Ugale	Ahmednagar	60	8	12	8	28	88
17	Shivjeet Malik	Gurgaon	39	14	6	24	44	83
18	Venkatesh Shreyas N C	Coimbatore	30	10	10	6	26	56
19	Adnan Lehry	Chennai	6	12	16	16	44	50
20	Trivikram Singh Toor	Mohali	12	DNS	DNS	DNS	0	12
21	Jeffrey Kruger	S Africa	Guest Driver

DNS: Did Not Start

Junior Championship Standings after 7 races:

Sr No	Name Of The Driver	Origin	C/F Total Points Of Rd–1 & 2	3rd Round			Total Points Of Rd–3	Total Points
Sr No	Name Of The Driver	Origin	C/F Total Points Of Rd–1 & 2	Race 1	Race 2	Race 3	Total Points Of Rd–3	Total Points
1	Yatin Magu	New Delhi	40	12	9	12	33	73
2	Maninder Singh	New Delhi	36	9	10	11	30	66
3	Lee Keshav Gupta	New Delhi	28	11	12	7	30	58
4	Anshul Shah	Nagpur	26	10	11	9	30	56
5	Gaurav Mehta	Pune	39	8	2	DNS	10	49
6	Tanmay Ugale	Ahmednagar	28	3	5	4	12	40
7	Rakesh Ram Kumar	Chennai	22	2	7	8	17	39
8	Shivjeet Malik	Gurgaon	20	6	3	10	19	39
9	Divijraj Thakran	Haryana	18	7	8	5	20	38
10	Venkatesh Shreyas N C	Coimbatore	12	4	4	3	11	23
11	Trivikram Singh Toor	Mohali	11	DNS	DNS	DNS	0	11
12	Adnan Lehry	Chennai	5	5	6	6	17	22