Rally of Coimbatore 2026: Route, Entry List and Final Result

Rally of Coimbatore returned the Indian National Rally Championship to fast, prepared gravel after the long pause following Round 1. The approved route scheduled nine stages and 109.05 competitive kilometres around Kari Motor Speedway and Jenney’s Club. The official timing service recorded the completed order with Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah first, Karna Kadur and Musa Sherif second, Jason Saldanha and Srinivas Murthy P V third, and Naveen Puligilla and Santhosh Thomas fourth.

The route that shaped the weekend

Black Thunder, S.M. Agro and Sharadha Terry formed the repeated stage pattern. Recce described smooth, well prepared roads with fast sections, though the competitive surface still moved under the cars and demanded accurate braking, clean notes and careful tyre management.

The published SR scheduled six stages on Day 1 and three on Day 2. The official final service records eight stage times in the overall result, so the timing table is the reference for the completed rally while the SR remains the reference for the issued route and event programme.

The cars and crews that changed the conversation

The field brought a new Peugeot 208 into the overall podium, a Citroen C3 into an impressive INRC 3T debut, Naveen’s Ford Fiesta into fourth and several strong Polo builds into the leading order. Aditya Thakur’s naturally aspirated 1.6 Polo finished fifth overall against turbocharged cars. Dean’s winning Polo was prepared by Arka Motorsports.

The rally also carried hard mechanical lessons. Fabid Ahmer’s mechanical failure ended a strong run on SS8. Arvind Dheerendra rolled. Phoebe Dale and Shahid Salman worked through gearbox trouble. Daraius Shroff and Arjun Dheerendra suffered gearbox failure, while Jeet Jhabakh restarted after a driveshaft issue in the i20.

Open the completed classification

The full result, classwise order and retirement trail now sit in the dedicated final report. The route documents remain here because they explain the shape of the rally. The result report explains what the field did with it.

Open the complete result from the fact links at the top of this page. It carries the official overall table, class context and retirement trail together.

The document behind a safe rally

Supplementary Regulations can look dry until a crew needs one exact answer. The document decides where a car must go, when a team must report, which papers have to be carried and how the event will respond when the timetable changes. For Rally of Coimbatore, it is the working agreement between the organisers, competitors, officials and the people protecting the stages.

The route has been arranged around three special stages repeated across two days, giving crews 109.05 kilometres of competition within a 170.68 kilometre rally total. That structure makes preparation important. A driver needs to learn how the stages evolve, while the service crew must be ready for a car that returns with the same road inside its tyres and suspension several times.

Reconnaissance is controlled through two passes, a 45 kilometre per hour maximum and clear requirements for direction, headlights and pass card endorsements. Those rules protect the roads and the public while giving crews the information they need to compete fairly. The event becomes better when every team understands the same boundaries.

For spectators, the essential rule is simple. Stay in marked areas, obey marshals and keep escape routes clear. A rally can only remain exciting when every competitor, official, volunteer and spectator goes home safely. This guide is built to help that happen.