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Bhopal’s Mujaffar Ali and Bangalore’s Pramod Joshua came up with a brilliant display in the Gulf Cup ‘Clash of the Titans’ in Bhopal on Sunday to emerge the undisputed kings of dirt track motorcycle racing in India. Joshua, H K Pradeep, Mujaffar Ali from Bangalore and Bhopal, who showed the class champions are made of in the previous legs in Jaipur, Hyderabad and Nashik. again proved a distinct class above the field featuring only the top riders from the previous rounds in this final leg, organized by Sportscraft, Mumbai, in association with Bhopal Automobile Sports Club at the BHEL Dushera ground, Govindpura. Besides winning the Indian Expert Class Group A Foreign Motorcycles... [more]

Mumbai, 31st January 2010: Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd., a Hinduja Group company, has today concluded the eighth year of their social initiative ‘Gulf Foster a Child Car Drive’. Mumbai Police Commissioner, Mr. Shivanandan flagged off the drive from Police Ground, Worli and ‘Teen Patti’ stars – Dhruv Ganesh, Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhartha Kher & Vaibhav Talwar spent some memorable time with the kids at the finishing point in Acres club, Chembur. The winners were announced by the movie debutants and the lucky winners of the ‘Gulf Foster a Child Car Drive’ gets a chance to meet the stars of the movie ‘Teen Patti’. The winners of ‘Gulf Foster Child Car Drive 2010’... [more]

The Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) has announced that all 2 wheelers which homologation were to expire in 2009 has been revalidated till 31st Dec 2010. There has been many a request from various competitors and organizers to extend the validity of homologation of 2 stroke bikes and many old model bikes whose homologation were to expire in 2009. Finally, the FMSCI had announced that the homologation has been extended till 31st Dec 2010. With no manufacturer showing interest in homologating their new bikes, the FMSCI also had no option except to extend the homologation of these bikes. List of two wheelers allowed to participate in Motorsport  Read More →

What better event to kick off the motor racing program in Mumbai city than the Gulf Foster A Child Car Drive event – the event with a difference, which aims to make a difference to all the participants, and more significantly the orphan and underprivileged kids who will be an integral part of the event. From past six years Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd., has been sponsoring this event and every year the event is being organized differently with some changes which makes the Participants as well as the underprivileged children feel different. The event is under the Corporate & Social Responsibilities of the company towards the society. This year some participants from the corporate world... [more]

The Asian Motorcycle Union (UAM) is the continental union of the FIM in charge of development and promotion of two wheeler motor sport in the Asian region In the recent annual congress held at Manila last weekend the President and 3 vice presidents were elected for a four year term For the post of president Stephan Carapiet (Macky) President of Namssa Phillipines won the election and for the post of Vice President the successful candidates were from Saudi Arabia,India and China Mr Shrikant Karani who is the FMSCI nominee is a well known figure in UAM having served as a Vice president from 2001-2005. His nomination to post of Vice president will no doubt act a boost for promotion of two wheeler... [more]

Pramod Joshua dished out yet another flawless display to win the glamour events in the third round of the Gulf Cup Dirt Track Racking in Nashik on Sunday 13th December. The 28-year-old Bangalore rider, like in the previous rounds in Jaipur and Hyderabad, once again did TVS Racing proud by sweeping the Indian Expert Class Group A Foreign Motorcycles upto 260 cc and Indian Expert Class Group B upto 260cc 2 & 4 stroke classes. The goodly crowd that turned up on a chilly morning was left in awe as riders went through the motions in the event, organized by Sportscraft in association with Nashik Automotive Sports Association ( N.A.S.A). If Joshua stole the limelight in the Indian Expert class,... [more]

Maninder Singh and Fabio Chindy in the Private Expert Classes Group A and H K Pradeep and Pramod Joshua in Expert Class stole the show in the second round of the Gulf Dirt Track Cup for two-wheelers, sponsored by Gulf Oil Corporation and organized by Sportscraft in association with APMSC (Andhra Pradesh Motor Sports Club) and Kart Kave Hyderabad, in Hyderabad on Sunday 8th November. The two TVS Racing riders won the glamour categories – the Indian Expert Class Group A and B respectively for foreign motorcycles upto 260cc to stay on course for berths in the Clash of the Titans, which pits the best of the three legs of the Gulf Dirt Track cup. While Pradeep won one race in the Indian Expert... [more]

The third round of the FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship for 2 wheelers will be held at Chickmaglur between 24-25 October 2009. The first and second rounds were held in Coimbatore and Mysore respectively. This round will be organized by the Motor Sports Club of Chickmaglur. TheMAK COFFEE 500 Rally will have three special stages viz. VSL Estate Stage (9.30 kms) run three times, Kesvinamane Stage (9.20 kms) run two times and Vasanthcool stage (6.50 kms) run one time, bringing the total of the special stage distance to 52.80 kms. The total distance of the rally will be 139.45 kms. There shall be a regroup of 50 minutes and 30 minutes and three services of 20 minutes each in between. The first... [more]

Three more rounds to go in the British Motorcycle Racing Club (BMCRC) 600cc Championship, Emmanuel Gnanaraj is fighting his way to get on the Top 10 list of the Championship table. He finished all 4 races in Top 10 slot and the best was 7th out of 27 riders last week at Cadwell Park circuit in United Kingdom. “The bike has been good so was the weather, We had a great weekend and the race was tough all through among the front runners. Our important race of the season is coming up soon in September at Brandshatch circuit which is meant to be the home track for most of the British riders and I can’t wait to race” said Emmanuel on reflecting on the race week end. When asked about... [more]

Jaipur 13th September 2009 : Pramod Joshua was the star performer in the first round of the Gulf Cup Dirt Track racing in Jaipur on Sunday. The 28-year-old TVS Racing rider from Bangalore won the four glamour events of a long programme to steal the honours in the event, sponsored by Gulf Oil Corporation and organized by Sportscraft Mumbai in association with Action Sports, Jaipur. Motorsport fans who turned up at the JDA grounds, Vidhyadhar Nagar, were simply awe-struck as the watched some of the country’s leading riders go through the motions in high speed dirt track racing. Joshua, riding a TVS RTR 125 FX, extracted the maximum from his well-prepared machine to emerge triumphant in two races... [more]