The 2025 edition of the JK Tyre National Racing Championship (JKNRC) resumed action with Round 2 held at Coimbatore’s Kari Motor Speedway. The Levitas Cup, featuring identically prepared Maruti Ignis race cars, finally made its race debut at this round.
The new one-make series aims to bridge the gap between entry-level karting and top-level professional racing at a more affordable price. Mira Erda and Jai Prashanth Venkat emerged as the star racers in the opening round, winning two races each in the Gentlemen’s category.
After a strong Round 1 earlier this year, both Anish D Shetty and Bhuvan Bonu continued their victory streak in the Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup and JK Tyre Novice Cup, respectively.
- Erda, Venkat win in Levitas Cup
- Shetty, Kumar win in Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup
- Bonu, Vadavalli win in Novice Cup
Levitas Cup
The Levitas Cup grid is divided into two classes. The Rookie class is reserved for those who haven’t secured a podium finish in a national car championship. The Gentlemen’s class, meanwhile, is for the more experienced racers.
Round 1 of the championship saw the race-spec Ignis cars complete their first official shakedown before racing action kicked off in Round 2. Competing as a guest racer during the weekend, Erda finished on the podium in all four races in the Gentlemen’s class, winning two of those. Venkat won the other two races in the class.
The Rookie class had four different winners, with Nihal Singh, Ashwin Pugalagiri, Dipayan Dutta and Balaji Raju taking top honours.
Levitas Cup Race 1 results (Rookie)
1. Nihal Singh – 15mins 28.013sec
2. Balaji Raju – 15mins 32.923sec
3. Ashwin Pugalagiri – 15mins 34.065sec
Levitas Cup Race 1 results (Gentlemen’s)
1. Mira Erda – 15mins 28.691sec
2. Ram Charan – 15mins 33.399sec
3. Jai Prashanth Venkat – 15mins 47.145sec
Levitas Cup Race 2 results (Rookie)
1. Ashwin Pugalagiri – 15mins 14.501sec
2. Balaji Raju – 15mins 25.007sec
3. Akshay Muralidharan – 15mins 26.302sec
Levitas Cup Race 2 results (Gentlemen’s)
1. Mira Erda – 15mins 04.056sec
2. Jai Prashanth Venkat – 15mins 25.312sec
3. Nitin AR – 15mins 25.839sec
Levitas Cup Race 3 results (Rookie)
1. Dipayan Dutta – 15mins 11.024sec
2. Ashwin Pugalagiri – 15mins 12.661sec
3. Nihal Singh – 15mins 28.194sec
Levitas Cup Race 3 results (Gentlemen’s)
1. Jai Prashanth Venkat – 15mins 12.388sec
2. Mira Erda – 15mins 13.192sec
3. Ram Charan – 15mins 19.548sec
Levitas Cup Race 4 results (Rookie)
1. Balaji Raju – 14mins 48.249sec
2. Dipayan Dutta – 14mins 49.551sec
3. Vasudevan SS – 14mins 54.880sec
Levitas Cup Race 4 results (Gentlemen’s)
1. Jai Prashanth Venkat – 14mins 38.490sec
2. Mira Erda – 14mins 38.750sec
3. Nitin AR – 14mins 39.881sec
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup
At the opening round in August, Anish D Shetty took a clean sweep in the Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup’s Professionals class. He followed that up with two back-to-back wins in Round 2 as well. But Navaneeth Kumar denied him another clean sweep, beating Shetty to the chequered flag by just 0.02 sec.
Bryan Nicholas scored two wins in the Amateurs class, while Johring Warisa won the third race.
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup Race 1 results (Professionals)
1. Anish D Shetty – 13mins 21.374sec
2. Navaneeth Kumar – 13mins 22.233sec
3. Kayan Zubin Patel – 13mins 22.769sec
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup Race 1 results (Amateurs)
1. Bryan Nicholas – 13mins 42.154sec
2. Johring Warisa – 13mins 42.406sec
3. Kabir Sahoch – 13mins 53.815sec
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup Race 2 results (Professionals)
1. Anish D Shetty – 13mins 10.550sec
2. Navaneeth Kumar – 13mins 10.726sec
3. Kayan Zubin Patel – 13mins 12.424sec
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup Race 2 results (Amateurs)
1. Bryan Nicholas – 13mins 25.259sec
2. Johring Warisa – 13mins 25.818sec
3. Kabir Sahoch – 13mins 43.878sec
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup Race 3 results (Professionals)
1. Navaneeth Kumar – 13mins 21.934sec
2. Anish D Shetty – 13mins 21.936sec
3. Kayan Zubin Patel – 13mins 29.204sec
Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup Race 3 results (Amateurs)
1. Johring Warisa – 13mins 30.058sec
2. Bryan Nicholas – 13mins 31.447sec
3. Kabir Sahoch – 13mins 52.334sec
JK Tyre Novice Cup
Bhuvan Bonu once again impressed in the Novice Cup, finishing on the podium in all three races. He won two of those (Races 1 and 3), but was defeated by Abhijit Vadavalli in Race 2.
JK Tyre Novice Cup Race 1 results
1. Bhuvan Bonu (MSport) – 16mins 06.951sec
2. Vinith Kumar M (DTS Racing) – 16mins 07.646sec
3. Avi Malavalli – (MSport) – 16mins 12.169sec
JK Tyre Novice Cup Race 2 results
1. Abhijit Vadavalli (Momentum Motorsports) – 14mins 23.860sec
2. Bhuvan Bonu (MSport) – 14mins 25.946sec
3. Lokithlingeash Ravi (DTS Racing) – 14mins 27.820sec
JK Tyre Novice Cup Race 3 results
1. Bhuvan Bonu (MSport) – 16mins 26.624sec
2. Abhijit Vadavalli (Momentum Motorsports) – 16mins 26.692sec
3. Lokithlingeash Ravi (DTS Racing) – 16mins 27.943sec
Also see:
JK Tyre National Racing Championship: Shetty, Bonu take clean sweep in Round 1
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