Chennai, Sept. 27 -- Indian drivers hogged the limelight with New Delhi's Achintya Mehrotra winninga gold medal, while Tarushi Vikram from Chikmagaluru marked her international debut with a silver medalfinish in the Asian Auto Gymkhana Championship which was run concurrently with the FIA Asia-PacificMotorsport Championship 2025 at the Bandaragama sports complex in Sri Lanka today.
The 35-year-old Mehrotra came out on top in a very strong field and after surviving a shootout that wasordered on a technicality besides a two-second penalty for knocking down a cone. Eventually, he pippedKyrgystan's Vedenev Alexey by two-tenth of a second in a tense finish.
"I had done a 1:10 for the circuit in the previous outing but improved to 1:05 in the sh...