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Tharindu Gamage reaching the finish line in the Formula McLarens 1300cc (Race 2) event.Chandima Gooneratne winning the Formula Mclarans 1300cc Race one.

Ashan Silva taking the lead in the SL H Cars up to 1600cc event.

The 18 year old carting sensation Eshan Siri-wardene emerged champi-on at the Redbull Kart Fight Sri Lanka which was held at Independence Square recently, and got the opportunity to take Sri Lanka to global motor sport.

Sri Lanka's only go-kart centre Speed Drome has been the breeding ground for young racing drivers and Eshan Siriwardene who is trained at the Speed Drome, is some-one who achieved glory, topping all his predeces-sors.

Taking part in the All-

Island Pro Karting Cham-pionship in 2012, Eshan was on top of the champi-onship table. All 15 young drivers of the Speed Drome team bagged hon-ours at the Red Bull Kart Fight Sri Lanka and Char-ith De Soyza, Eshan Per-ies and Kyle Crossland finished among the top three. With this victory, Eshan will get the oppor-tunity of representing Sri Lanka at the Redbull International Kart Fight Championships to be held in Italy at the end of this year and he will be look-ing forward to make Sri Lanka proud. CW

Eshan to represent Sri Lanka at RIKFC

CHINTHANA WASALA

Ashan Silva dominated the third round of the Speed Championship, organized by the Asian Motor Racing Club and worked off at the Pannala International Circuit. Ashan showed hat he is a master in the trade when he won the Group SL-GT up to 3500cc, Group SL-H up to 1600cc and the Ford Formula 1600cc class.

The Ford Formula 1600 event saw Ashan thrilling all motor racing fans trough out the race, coming from behind after a slow start to move up ahead after the third lap. Once he gained the lead, others could not make an impression as Dinesh Jayawardene and Shirendra Lawrence finished sec- ond and third respectively.

In the fastest event of the day, the Group SL-GT up to 3500cc cate-

gory, Ashan was way ahead than the other podium finishers towards the end of the race. Abeeth Dangal-la who impressed fans at the recently held Katukurun-da Circuit meet, winning the champion driver's award, was leading for almost three laps but Ashan made his every effort to move ahead of him. Eventu-ally champion driver Dinesh

Deheragoda and Dangalla finished second and third respectively. In the SL-H Cars up to 1600cc. Ashan taking off in quick time was in front and it became

the most interesting event of the dayw h e n a tough competi-

tion was wit-nessed.

RESULTS Formula

Mclarans 1300cc (Race

1) - 1. Chandima Gooneratne, 2. Sabry Abdul Salam, 3.Tharindu Gamage

SL N Cars up to 1000cc - 1. Rohan de Silva , 2. Ushan Perera, 3. S.A. Duminda

SL A Cars Mclarens Alto K10 - 1. Praveen Madugalle, 2. Ushan Perera, 3. Amir Gaffoor

SL N Cars Ford Laser / Mazda 1300cc One Make - Results withheld

SL A Cars Mini 7 - Results withheld SL-N Mini 7 -1. Results withheld SL H Cars up to 1600cc - 1. Ashan Silva, 2.

Mohan Perera, 3. Dinesh Jayawardene SL H Cars up to 1500cc - 1. Irfan Fuard, 2. Shan-

tha Priyankara, 3. Chaminda Weerasooriya SL-H up to1500cc - 1. Sajjaad Zuhair, 2. S. Man-

napperuma, 3. Dinesh Senanayake Formula McLarens 1300cc (Race 2) - 1. Tharin-

du Gamage, 2. Chandima Gooneratne, 3. Sabry Abdul Salam

SL GT cars up to 3500cc - 1. Ashan Silva, 2. Dinesh Deheragoda, 3. Abeeth Dangalla, 4. Janaka Dias, 5. Ushan Perera

Formula Ford 1600cc (Post 85) - 1. Ashan Silva,

2. Dinesh Jayawardene 02, 3. Shirendra Lawrence

Formula Ford 1600cc (Pre 85) - 1. Kaushal Samarasinghe, 2.Viren Boteju

MOTOR CYCLES: Yamaha One Make Series FZ 153cc - 1. Sameera

Sampath Piyadigama, 2. K.E.Prasad E.Ranaweera, 3. Michael Stave

Group ‘O’ Standard Bajaj 150cc - 1. R.W. Shan-tha Ranasinghe, 2. D.L.Amal Eranga Weerasekera, 3.R.M.T.Dananjaya Ratnayake

Group ‘O’ Standard up to 125cc (2/T) - 1. Cha-thura Madusanka, 2. Tuan Princy, 3. Mohamed Shaz-an

Group ‘O’ Standard up to 125cc (4/T) - 1. Jaden Goonewardene, 2. Aaron Goonewardene, 3. Marlon Manchanayake

Group ‘SM’ Super Motard up to 250cc - 1. K.D. Sudasinghe, 2. Udika Srimal Malavige, 3. P.A. Sadeep Vidarshika

Group ‘O’ Standard up to 250cc (4/T) - 1. Ned Daniel, 2. Sheron Fernando, 3. N. Pradeepan

Group ‘R’ up to 125cc 2/T and 250cc 4/T - 1. Prabath Peiris, 2. Jaden Goonewardene, S.K. Tyronne

Group ‘SM’ Super Motard up to 450cc 1. Suraj Perera, 2. Ananda Wedisinghe, 3. U.D. Indika Jayasooriya

Group ‘R’ Racing and Modified up to 600cc - 1. Prasanna R. Subasinghe, 2. Maduranga Caldera, 3. Rakitha Abeywickrama

Ashan in hat-trick of wins

PICTURES BY RANJITH ASANKA

Champion Driver Ashan Silva in action during the SL GT cars up to 3500cc event.

Ashan Silva reaching the finish line in the Formula Ford 1600cc (Post 85) event

Tharindu Gamage reaching the finish line in the Formula McLarens 1300cc (Race 2) event.Chandima Gooneratne winning the Formula Ned Daniel after winning the Group ‘O’ Standard up to 250cc (4/T) event.

Praveen Madugalle taking the start in the SL A Cars Mclarens Alto K10 event

Riders taking the start in the Group ‘SM’ Super Motard up to 450cc event.

Association Of Cricket Umpires Sri Lanka President Nihal Pathirage handing over a memento to former Sri Lanka Test cricketer and Elite Panel umpire Kumar Dharmasena who was selected as the Best Cricket Umpire Of The Year by the ICC recently at the 68th Annual General Meeting of the ACUSL at the Thurstan College Auditorium recently.

A head-on collision between a minibus and an oil tank-er killed nine Afghan football fans and injured 28 others overnight as they headed for Kabul and the final of the country's first premier league, police said Friday.

The league has been greeted with great enthusiasm in Afghanistan, with the final on Friday afternoon between teams from the north and the west expected to draw huge crowds.

The fans, many of whom play for local teams, were on their way from northern Jawzjan province to Kabul on Thursday night -- a distance of more than 300 kilometres (190 miles) -- when they died on one of Afghanistan's notoriously dangerous roads.

“Unfortunately, nine footballers and fans were killed and 28 others were wounded in a tragic traffic accident as their vehicle collided with a fuel tanker on the Shibir-ghan to Aqcha highway late Thursday evening,” provin-cial police chief Abdul Aziz Ghairat told AFP.

The death toll was confirmed by Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, the deputy provincial governor, who said 36 were injured. AFP

Crash kills 9 Afghan football fans