Aravinda and Gayan the stars at Tissa

Bernard Perera in Tissamaharama

The third annual Carlton Super Sports came to an end with the Super Cross at the Ceylon Autodrome organised by Tharunyata Hetak Foundation. A large crowd of over 40,000 Motor Racing fans gathered to witness the days proceeding here yesterday.

The high light of the day was the three victories achieved by Upulwan Serasinghe. The most eye catching event on the day was the SL-GT Super Cars event competed by all leading drivers in the country Aravinda Premadasa, Dinesh Deheragoda, Reya Farook, Nihal Premaratne and young Pasindu Peiris.

Infact it was Pasindu Pieris who won the hearts of all spectators when he overcame the challenges from Aravinda Premadasa and Dinesh Deheragoda to win the race one. It was the most thrilling race as Pasindu and Aravinda were involved in a very close battle specially during the 3rd, 4th and 5th Caps.

But the second race in the same class saw Aravinda take sweet revenge and beat race one winner Pasindu after going past him in the third lap and kept on moving swiftly to win the event. Deheragoda was the runner up and Pasindu had to be satisfied with the second runner up position.

Susantha Gunewardene had a comfortable victory in the Mini Seven class. He also managed to secure two runner up positions behind Upulwan Serasinghe Ford Lase 1500 cc category.

The only lady driver to be on the podium was Shehara Jayawardene driving her Nissan March in the Nissan March class. She was beaten to second place the experience driver in this class Harsha Panduwawala.

In the motor cycle event it was reigning champion Gayan Sandaruwan who thrilled all his fans to their maximum with his dare devil riding.

He had to face stiff opposition from the sole foreign competitor Russel Jarmen the Englishman.

In the 125 cc Racing Class it was Jarmen who got off to a flying start and was ahead of the other riders. Gayan in fourth place planned his riding pattern and got his act in to perfection and went past the Englishman in the fourth lap. From there onwards it was Gayan all the way till he crossed the finish line to be the great winner.

Gayan Sandaruwan was the clear winner in the open event for Racing Bikes which also was the final event for the day. It was the winner who made good start followed by Russel Jarmen the Englishman once again. But Jarmen could not match Gayan at any stage of the race. Jarmen tried everything in store to challenge Gayan but failed in all his attempts. Tuan Ossen took the second runner up position.

Sasindu Peiris was the other rider to excel on this track winning two events comfortably. First he won the Street Trail Bikes riding a Honda and later went on to win the open event for Street Trail Bikes. The second event he had to fight all the way R. M. Safraz and Kamal Prasanna.

Indika Gurusinghe the experienced rider carried away the Trophy on offer Super Mortard Open Gravel event. He used all his experience to be in front from the word go and completed the race with ease.