Aditya Anthony and Mohammed Musthafa clinched the Vodafone Eastern Mountain Safari 2011

Siliguri, West Bengal, Nov 12 : Aditya Anthony and Mohammed Musthafa clinched the Vodafone Eastern Mountain Safari 2011, here on Saturday.

The duo grabbed the prize-money of Rs. 5,00,000 with 1873 penalty points. They were followed by Asish Budhia and Mukesh Thakkar who won the second position the race.

They took away Rs. 3,00,000 with 288 penalty points. The third position was taken by the pair of Soham Hazra and Amit Kr. Saha with 2568 penalty points. They won a prize-money of Rs. 2,00,000.

The prize-money of Rs 10,000 in Best Tuner section went to Tata Motors.

Along with the prize money, each of the above positioned teams will receive two trophies each.

Ramakrishna Race Performance Management Pvt. Ltd. (RRPM) organized the first national car named Vodafone Eastern Mountain Safari (VEMS) 2011 in the hills of Eastern India.

The 400 kms rally was split into 2 legs and was covered on Nov 10 and Nov 11 with 10 hours as the driving time each day.

Amittrajit Ghosh, Director of RRPM said: “To make the event all the more exciting and challenging along with disclosed time controls and passage controls we also had secret time controls, self time controls and GPS time controls. All the participants appreciated the route, which was steep rocky uphill amidst dense forests towards Kurseong and Kalimpong.”

The winners list are as follows:

Vodafone Eastern Mountain Safari (VEMS) 2011 was won by

1st – Aditya Anthony and Mohammed Musthafa with 1873 penalty points in Tata Grande - Rs. 5,00,000/-

2nd – Asish Budhia and Mukesh Thakkar with 2288 penalty points in Maruti Gypsy - Rs. 3,00,000/-

3rd – Soham Hazra and Amit Kr. Saha with 2568 penalty points in Tata Safari - Rs. 2,00,000/-

4th – K P Karthik Maruthi and S Sankaranand with 2992 penalty points in Mahindra Scorpio - Rs. 1,00,000/-

5th – Anirban Mukherjee and Chandan Sen with 3008 penalty points in MAruti Gypsy – Rs. 70,000/-

6th – Amol Anil Santoskar and K Prasad with 3307 penalty points in Tata Grande - Rs. 50,000/-

Leg1 1st – Prithul Dey and Debasis Ghosh in Tata Safari - Rs. 50,000/-

Leg1 2nd – Sachin Singh and K. Pradeep Kumar in MAruti Gypsy - Rs. 25,000/-

Leg2 1st – Ganesh Murthy MD and Nagarajan T in Mahidra Scorpio - Rs. 50,000/-

Leg 2 2nd – Jagmeet Gill and Yogesh Gupta - Rs. 25,000/-

Best Tuner --- TATA MOTORS Rs. 10,000/-

--IBNS