Sri Lanka, March 7 -- The SLT Speed Up Eliyakanda Hill Climb became a history-making event for driver Ashan Silva as he was able to lower the existing record for the course set in 2018.

Last Sunday Ashan driving his Evo 9 on this 675 metre course in style was able clock 31.76 seconds in the first run also erasing the record held by Dilan Seneviratne with a time of 32.422 seconds.

Later in the day coming on for his second run he improved further on the record he set during the first run taking only 31.26 seconds to complete the course and also was able to take the Award on offer for the day, the Fastest Driver's Award in addition to the Award for the SL Gt 3500cc Class cars event. Last year too he received the fastest Driver Award when h...