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Aravinda and Gayan reign supreme
By M. Shamil Amit
A scintillating piece of driving and riding by Aravinda Premadasa and Gayan Sandaruwan kept the massive crowds on their toes to see them emerge the kings of speed handling at the Foxhill Supercross concluded at Diyatalawa last Sunday.

Aravinda in his Mitsubishi Evo VII who was winning the championship title for the sixth year and Gayan in his Honda CRF250 for the third year gave the motor racing fans their money’s worth. The former dominated the first of the SL-GT Cars upto 3500cc event to win the race and then secured a second place in the second race of the same category to clinch the top drivers award while the latter who took part in four events secured the first position in three and was unfortunate to lose out the other due to a nasty fall.

Aravinda’s arch rival Dinesh Deheragoda in his powerful Mitsubishi Evo IX who could not secure a place in the first race of the SL-GT event as he had to give up the race at the latter stages made a comeback to win the second race. In the other events that were worked off Dinesh Jayawardena in his DHL Special with his cool headed driving won both the SL-H Cars upto 1600cc likewise Shantha Suraweera in his Subaru Legacy and Sajaad Zuhair driving a Ford Laser clinched both the SL-N Cars upto 8-10 and 10-12 Kg/Hp and SL-N Ford Laser/Mazda upto 1500cc events respectively.

The kids too had an opportunity to show their skills and one rider who made an impression was young Ishan Dasanayake riding a Yamaha YZ80 who won both the events of the Group MX Motorcycles upto 85cc. In the other motor car events Rizvi Farook and Dilan Seneviratne shared a race each of the SL-A Cars upto 1600cc.

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