Rishad Dadachanji drove the fastest car in his section to top proceedings along with Stephen Panchigalla in the four wheeler section of the sixth edition of The Valley Run, held at the picturesque Aamby Valley air strip situated on the outskirts of Lonavala.
The Mumbai driver pushed his Lamborghini Huracan to clock 10.849s in the J Class — Unrestricted Class, which also turned out to be the fastest time of the event and thus earned him the ‘Fastest Foreign Car’ title.
Among Indian cars, Vizag-based Panchigalla clocked 13.366s in his Skoda Octavia in the same J Class, which was run jointly for both Foreign and Indian cars, to end up as the ‘Fastest Indian Car' of the day. Both Rishad and Stephen’s final time (FT) was logged in the Open round.
In a twenty-five race-order day at the Valley Run, Mumbai drivers stamped their authority in 18. The others to ascend the podium were — Stephen (Vizag) who also topped in the G2 Class; Shrikant Khandare (Raigad; K4 Class); Junior Braganza (Goa; K5 Class); Vivek Ramchander (Bangalore; K6 Class); Tanmay Ugale (Pune). Among the female participants Mumbai’s Jhanvi Bhavsar in her BMW 525D clocked 14.892s in the K7 Class to earn the distinction of being ‘Fastest Driver – Female.’
The event, promoted by Elite Octane Inc., received a whopping 475 entries from Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Gujarat, Surat, Indore, Mumbai and Pune and was supported by Sportscraft, the Race Management Partner with sanctions from the FMSCI, the governing body of motorsport in India.
