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fare for Radella Hill Climb and Fox Hill Super cross
The Fox hill Super cross organised by the Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA) Diyatalawa in collaboration with Sri Lanka Association of Drivers and Riders is being held for the 12th successive year. Dialog GSM join hands as the main sponsors of this meet for the second successive year along with a host of co-sponsors to make this meet another successful one. This is one of the most looked forward to events among the top drivers and riders of Sri Lanka. The gravel which is one mile in length comprising of 15 jumps for the motorcycle events. A spokesman for SLARDAR confirmed that they have received a record number of entries for both the motor cars and bikes amounting to over 90 for each of these categories. Nalin D. Perera who clinched the fastest fox title at the meet last year will be their this year to defend his title among other top drivers in the calibre of Dinesh Deheragoda, Aravinda Premadasa, Feroz Omar, Pradeep Jayawardenda (who was unfortunate last year when his car spun up the air causing severe damage), Dan Dasanayake (who made a come back when he won one of the two events held in Katukurunda recently) in the two Super Car events. The other main attraction will be the two Ford Laser/Mazda events which will be hotly contested between Sajad Zuhair who won both the events at Katukurunda recently trying to maintain his winning run. He will have to stave off the challenge from defending champion Nishan Wasalathanthri and runner up Upulwan Serasinghe while Dilshard Hamdoon, veteran Rohan de Silva, Zackie Ismail, Dinesh Senanayake and brothers Javed and Ishraq Wahab also there to make their presence felt. The man to beat in the Ford Formula events will be Romani de Silva who got off to a flying start at Katukurunda. The drivers to give him a fight are Dinesh Jayawardena, Rizvi Farouk, Rohan de Silva and his daughter Shehara de Silva the first lady to competitor to have ever participated in this category and Buddhika de Silva. The attraction in the motorcycle events will no doubt be India's C. Wijeya Kumar who carried away the champion's award. He won all the four events that he participated last year but this year he will have to face stiff opposition from young Gayan Sandaruwan, Nalin Perera and the Wedisinghe and Bultjens brothers. With over 23 events scheduled to be held in both categories an exciting and interesting motor racing events for the 50,000 racing fans is expected to be dished out. Two days before the Foxhill motor racing meet there will be the Radella Hill Climb and the main attraction will be the fight for the fastest time for the day award for the T. Jayarajasingham memorial trophy. Veteran driver and the winner of this title last year Suranjth Premadasa driving a Formula 1600 modified who came out of retirement drove a fantastic race to defeat the favourite Rohan de Silva. But he was unable to better the timing of 31.85 seconds set by Rohan de Silva three years ago. The top drivers who are expected to participate in the motor car events are defending champ Aravinda Premadasa, Dinesh Deheragoda, Nishan Weerasooriya, Dan Dasanayake (all in Mitsubushi Evo VIII), Riyaz Farook, Rizvi Farouk, Rameez Mahmoor, Nalin D. Perera and a host of others. The fastest timing for motorcycles is held by Shanaka Ambrose 34.90 secs. Shafraz Junaid, Mohamed Manaf, Indika Gurusinghe, Rohana Jayaratne, Suresh Fernando are some of the top riders expected to particpate. Meanwhile lady driver Shehara de Silva is on the verge of creating history as she is expected to particpate in a hill climb event. She is expected to particpate in the Formula Ford event. Eighteen events are lined up to be held for the day. |
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