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The Blueband Sports FMSCI Indian National Rally Championship is due in Kodagu from 20 to 22 November for Round 3, the Robusta Rally. The calendar gives the season a fresh setting after the gravel roads of Coimbatore, with teams now waiting on the event bulletin for the detail that turns a date into a route.
Chethan Chengappa and Sujith Chengappa headed the published FMSCI Gypsy Challenge podium, ahead of Sanjay Agarwal and Dinky Varghese and Kariappa Mekerira and Abhinav Ganapathy.
Venunath V and Sanath G won INRC 3, ahead of Jenu Johnson and Lenin Joseph in second and Abishek Gowda T C and Mahesh Nandi in third.
Anushriya Gulati and Karan Aukta won INRC 3T in the Citroen C3, while Arjun Rajeev and Chandra Mouli finished second and Adith KC and Avinash C A took third in Baleno RS cars.
Pradeep Ravi and Thimmanna Uppapanda headed the published Masters Cup podium, with Dinesh Kumar T and Lohith J M second and Balakrishna J and Bopanna Nelammakkada third.
After their WRC Chile programme with TSI Racing, Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah returned to India and won Rally of Coimbatore in the Arka Motorsports Polo.
Aditya Thakur and Virender Kashyap won INRC 2 in the naturally aspirated Polo. Philippos Matthai and Harish K N finished second, while Ritesh M. Guttedar and Suraj M finished third.
Three final stages turned Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah’s Saturday advantage into a Rally of Coimbatore victory, with Karna Kadur second, Jason Saldanha third and Naveen Puligilla fourth.
Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah won Round 2 in Coimbatore, ahead of Karna Kadur, Jason Saldanha and Naveen Puligilla, in a rally shaped by speed, new cars and determined recovery drives.
Ritesh M. Guttedar and Suraj M finished third in INRC 2 and tenth overall at Coimbatore, delivering a measured run through a fast national rally.
From Chennai to Coimbatore, Kodagu, Bengaluru, Indore and Bastar, the official Blueband Sports calendar gives India’s national rally championship six rounds and a reserve weekend.
Fabid Ahmer and Milen George took the inaugural ARCH Rally overall victory and won the ARCH Rally 2 category in the JA Motorsport and TSI Racing Hyundai i20 N Line.
They missed the opening round, changed cars, won in Coimbatore, dominated Coorg and K1000, then sealed the 2025 INRC title at Indore.
Tarushi Vikram and Athreya Kousgi finished seventeenth overall, with the official stage timing marking their crew fastest in INRC 3 on SS08.
Venunath V and Sanath G carried the #21 Chettinad Sporting Polo through every recorded stage run to win INRC 3 at the Rally of Coimbatore in 01:40:36.798.
Six Saturday stages put Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah at the head of a fast, carefully prepared Coimbatore rally, with new cars and hard mechanical lessons already reshaping the weekend.
A full day of gravel testing in Coimbatore brought together Sonakshi, Dheeraj Salimath, Arvind Dheerendra, Aditya Thakur, Daraius Shroff and Arjun Dheerendra, alongside a newly imported Peugeot 208, for a close look at the work behind the rally.
The official route and entry documents remain useful after Round 2, now joined by the completed classification led by Dean Mascarenhas and Gagan Karumbaiah.
Four voices from the INRC paddock on Coimbatore, preparation, pressure and the fight that begins when the first pace note comes through.
A passenger TSD rally in Jaipur, an endurance race at MECO Kartopia and a national two-wheel stage rally in Chennai are the next verified entries on the FMSCI calendar.
Bengaluru's Arvind Dheerendra and co-driver Shahid Salman won INRC 3 on the team's first competitive outing, and finished third overall.
Tarushi Vikram and co-driver Athreya Kousgi won both the Ladies class and Junior INRC at the South India Rally, and finished inside the overall top ten.
Karna Kadur and Kumar Ramaswamy took Arka Motorsports to victory at the Madras International Circuit, holding on after the boost went.
