The list of the 25 Indian teams that will compete in Season 3 of Force Gurkha RFC India has been announced. Some of these competitors had participated in the first two editions of RFC India as well. According to the company, the line-up for Force Gurkha RFC India 2016 sees a lot of prominent off-roaders making a debut in the toughest and the first international off-road motorsport event of India.
Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh, Bangalore Off-roaders Development Association (BODA) and KTM Jeepers from Kerala lead the pack with 4 entries from each of these off-roading clubs. Mumbai’s Team Fairmont and Hyderabad’s Charminar Off Road Adventure Club (CORAC) will each be represented by 2 teams. V5 Off-roaders from Coorg, Mudhogs from Sakleshpur, Northern India Off-road Club (NIOC) and Incredible Off-roaders Goa will be represented by one team per club. The event will take place in Goa from 22nd July, 2016 to 29th July, 2016.
Two of the competitors, Jagat Nanjappa from V5 Off-roaders and Tejinder Singh from Gerrari Off-roaders Chandigarh, are the winners of Force Gurkha RFC South and North India Chapters respectively, which were held earlier this year. As a result, they have earned free automatic entry to Force Gurkha RFC India 2016. Two factory-backed Force Motors teams, led by Malaysian drivers Tan Eng Joo and Mervyn Lim, will be back in the fray trying to retain their top two slots of the previous two editions. Additionally, there are two individual entries from Pune and Hyderabad.
Force Gurkha RFC India is an extreme off-road motorsport event which is a part of the RFC Global Series, which has 25 editions worldwide. The RFC Mother Event, held in Malaysia, is counted among the top ten toughest motor races in the world. Though it is only two editions old, RFC Founder & Creator Luis J.A. Wee counts RFC India among the top 3 in the RFC Global Series. The week-long event tests the driving and vehicle recovery skills of the competitors under extreme off-road conditions through a series of challenges or Special Stages (SS). The team with the maximum points at the end of all the SS will be announced as the winner of the competition and the best Indian driver of the event will get an automatic free entry to RFC Malaysia, where he or she will compete with the best off-roaders from across the world.
India doesn’t have a lot of full-on off-roading events that allow the manufacturers and drivers alike to push their boundaries and provide an opportunity to take their talent to the global stage. At a time like this, events like RFC Gurkha certainly provides an opportunity, that motorsport enthusiast in the country have been waiting for.
Here’s the list of 25 Indian teams that will be competing in Force Gurkha RFC India 2016.
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