Rajini's fifth win in a row in national racing

Krishnan Rajini of Red Rooster Racing yet again underlined his dominance in the premier class, the Group A Super Stock (600cc) by recording his fifth consecutive win in the fourth round of the Sidv in-FMSCI National Motorcycle Racing Championship here Saturday.

Rajini, who missed the first round, thus moved to 50 points as against 52 of championship leader Sumit Lucas Topo of Blue Arrow Racing) who finished second.

Such was Rajini's superiority that he spared seven seconds to Topo in a start-to-finish performance.

With another race to be run tomorrow, it is likely that Rajini, given his vast international experience, will take over the championship lead.

Meanwhile, A Prabhu of Moto Rev India chalked up his fifth win in the Group D Intermediate class to extend his championship lead over team-mate B Naveen Raj who finished a distant seventh.

Also consolidating his championship position was S Sarath Kumar of Ten10 Racing in the Group B Experts class as he recorded his fourth win and third in a row as his nearest rival, veteran Sriskandarajah (Moto Rev India) came in last in fifth position.

In the Group B Open class, P.Deva Kumar of Moto Rev India raced to his sixth win with another command performance.

The results:

Group A Super Stock (600cc): Race 1 (8 laps) - Krishnan Rajini (Red Rooster Racing) 1 (14mins, 28.494secs); Sumit Lucas Topo (Blue Arrow Racing) 2 (14:35.295); M Gautam (Moto Rev India) 3 (14:37.534).

Group B Open (2 strokes, up to 165cc): Race 1 (6 laps) - P Deva Kumar (Moto Rev India) 1 (12:49.209); Emmanuel Jebaraj 2 (12:59.356); K Umesh Babu 3 (13:00.207).

Group B Experts (4 strokes, up to 165cc) Experts: Race 1 (6 laps) - S Sarath Kumar (Ten10 Racing) 1; P Karthick (TVS Racing) 2 (12:19.952); Harry Sylvester (TVS Racing) 3 (12:20.003).

Group D Intermediate (4 strokes, 130-165cc): Race 1 (6 laps) - A Prabhu (Moto Rev India) 1 (13:29.377); M Sudhakar (Ten10 Racing) 2 (13:37.103); K Prakash (TVS Racing) 3 (13:40.067).

Group D Novice (up to 130cc): Race 1 (6 laps) - K Prakash (TVS Racing) 1 (14:31.101); GS Santhosh (TVS Racing) 2 (14:32.239); S Prativ (Pvt) 3 (14:32.957).

Single Make series - Honda CBF Stunner (Intermediate): Race 1 - M Sudhakar 1 (14:18.752); GR Santhosh 2 (14:18.976); A Prabhu 3 (14:19.173).

Honda CB Twister (Novice): Race 1 (Short loop, 6 laps) - Renn Johnson 1 (08:49.780); Deepak Papineni 2 (08:50.619); D Naveen Raj 3 (08:58.451).

Yamaha R15 Experts: Race 1 (6 laps) - R Deepak 1 (13:24.464); D Dinesh Kumar 2 (13:25.398); Sudhakar Kesavan 3 (13:27.147).

Yamaha R15 Novice: Race 1 (Short loop, 6 laps) - G.R. Santhosh 1 (08:00.495); Bharath Raj J 2 (08:00.658); S Sai Kishore 3 (08:01.642).

Sharath clinches National Motorcycle Racing title

2010-09-05 18:20:00

S. Sharath Kumar of Ten10 Racing set a track record of one minute, 58.516 seconds in the Group B (Expert, up to 165cc, 4 stroke) class as he clinched the championship title in the Sidvin-FMSCI National Motorcycle Racing Championship here Sunday.

Sharath won both his races in the fourth and penultimate round over the weekend to take his tally to 65.5 points as against his nearest rival veteran Sriskandarajah of Moto Rev India (52) in the provisional standings.

Likewise, P. Deva Kumar (Moto Rev India) and K. Prakash (TVS Racing) took unassailable leads in the championship standings in their respective classes by winning both their races over the weekend.

Deva Kumar has 70 points to K. Umesh Babu's 36 in the Group B (Open) class while Prakash jumped to 70 of B Naveen Raj's 43.

Meanwhile, international Krishnan Rajini of Red Rooster Racing caught up with championship leader Sumit Lucas Toppo of Blue Arrow Racing with another double in the Super Stock (600cc) class. The two are tied on points with 60 apiece.

The last round of the championship concludes in December.

The results:

Group A Super Stock (600cc): Race 2 (8 laps) - Krishnan Rajini (Red Rooster Racing) 1 (14mins, 30.465); Sumit Lucas Toppo (Blue Arrow Racing) 2 (14:41.856); M Gautam (S Moto Rev India) 3 (14:47.144).

Group B Open (2 strokes, up to 165cc): Race 2 (6 laps) - P Deva Kumar (Moto Rev India) 1 (12:42.414); S Murali 2 (12:47.636); K Umesh Babu 3 (12:50.619).

Group B Experts (4 strokes, up to 165cc) Experts: Race 2 (6 laps) - S Sarath Kumar (Ten10 Racing) 1 (12:07.503); Harry Sylvester (TVS Racing) 2 (12:12.748); P Karthick (TVS Racing) 3 (12:18.421).

Group D Intermediate (4 strokes, 130-165cc): Race 2 (6 laps) - A Prabhu (Moto Rev India) 1 (13:32.392); M Sudhakar (Ten10 Racing) 2 (13:40.244); B Naveen Raj (Moto Rev India) 3 (13:41.738).

Group D Novice (up to 130cc): Race 2 (6 laps) - K Prakash (TVS Racing) 1 (14:35.910); GR Santhosh (TVS Racing) 2 (14:35.915); S Prativ (Pvt) 3 (14:40.923).s

Single Make series - Honda CBF Stunner (Intermediate): Race 2 (3 laps, stopped due to rain) - R Karthik 1 (07:17.132); M Sudhakar 2 (07:17.359); D Dinesh Kumar 3 (07:17.415).

Honda CB Twister (Novice): Race 2 (Short loop, 6 laps) - Deepak Papineni 1 (08:48.501); B Naveen Raj 2 (08:45.543); Renn Johnson 3 (08:48.833).

Honda CBR150 (Experts) 6 laps - Vivek Pillai 1 (13:31.741); R Deepak 2 (13:31.909); Shyam Shankar 3 (13:40.617).

Yamaha R15 (Experts): Race 2 (6 laps) - R Deepak 1 (13:23.858); D Dinesh Kumar 2 (13:26.257); Shyam Shankar 3 (13'36/368).

Yamaha R15 Novice (Short loop) Race 2 (6 laps) - Arun J Pillai 1 (07:53.245); GR Santhosh 2 (07:57.746); Bharat Raj J 3 (08:00.656).

 

Source-Sify.com

TVS Motor Company Posts Highest Ever Monthly Sales

Hosur, September 1, 2010:

Scooters grow 43 %; Motorcycles grow 30 %; Domestic sales up 29 %; Exports up 62 % 

In an impressive showing of monthly numbers, TVS Motor Company registered the highest ever sales figures in the month of August 2010. Total sales of the company stood at 170,735 units in August 2010 against 127,875 units in August 2009, a growth of 34%. Robust growth in all segments of the two and three wheeler market enabled the company to record maximum sales. Independently too, two wheelers and three wheeler sales were highest ever for TVS Motor Company.
Two Wheeler
Total two wheeler sales of the company for the month of August 2010 grew 32% with sales of 167,109 units against 126,842 units recorded in August 2009.
Cumulative sales registered a growth of 32% for the period April to August 2010 with sales of 786,256 units against 594,927 units in April to August 2009.
Domestic sales grew by 29%, registering sales of 148,081 units in August 2010 against 115,095 units in August 2009.
Scooter sales of the company grew 43% increasing to 40,913 units in the month of August 2010 from 28,582 units registered in August 2009.Motorcycles registered a growth of 30% in August 2010, with sales of 66,574 units against 51,127 units in August 2009.
Exports grew by a significant 62% with sales of 19,028 units in August 2010 against 11,747 units in August 2009.
Three Wheeler
The company's three wheeler business continued to grow with sales of 3,626 units in August 2010 in comparison with 1,033 units in August 2009. Cumulative three wheeler sales for the period April '10 to August '10 stood at 14,533 units, a growth of 239% over the same period of the previous year.

 

Source-TVS MOTOR

Dr. C K Ramachandar Award for TVS Motor Company

Hosur, August 28, 2010:

TVS Motor Company has won the prestigious Dr. C K Ramchandar Award for Best Medical Centre for the year 2009-10. The annual award, given by Indian Association of Occupational Health, Tamilnadu Chapter, was set up in memory of Dr. C K Ramachandar, the doyen of Occupational health services in Tamilnadu. The late Dr. C K Ramachandar was instrumental in the founding the Tamilnadu Chapter of Indian Association of Occupational. For almost twelve years beginning 1955, he took it upon himself to propagate the concept, ideals and methodology of the organization of occupational health services.
On receiving the award, Dr. Rajan Babu, Chief Medical Officer, TVS Motor Company said, "This award is the result of our continuous endeavor to use innovation to drive health and safety management leveraging the availability of modern technology."
He added that the company has also developed a software program that enables us to view the entire medical history of an employee right from his first interaction with our company. It facilitates better diagnosis and treatment.
Another key initiative that won the company the Dr. C K Ramchander Award is the implementation of a specific program to negate the ominous risk of noise induced hearing loss. The program included installation of more efficient and environment friendly machines, providing employees with specially designed noise reduction ear plugs and conducting an inclusive education program on hearing loss for employees. The calculated improvement in productivity on implementation of these measures is as much as 20% per employee.
"The key to success in pushing health and safety awareness is to cultivate a strong safety mindset at all levels. To this end, we have integrated a section on healthcare on our company's intranet site and provide periodic posts on best practices" Dr. Rajan Babu said.
Other routine activities that the occupational health center at TVS Motor Company conducts include monthly diabetic, hypertension and cholesterol clinics, statutory periodical health checkups and general health checkups for all employees along with a regular out-patient facility.

 

SOURCE-Tvs motor

TVS motors to invest 200 cr on capacity expansion

NEW DELHI: Motorcycle maker TVS Motor Company on Thursday said it will invest Rs 200 crore by April next year to increase its production capacity to 28 lakh units.
The company also said it will set up a design centre in Indonesia where it has a manufacturing facility.
"There is an increasing demand and to meet that we are increasing our production capacity to 28 lakh units from the existing 21 lakh units per annum. It will entail an investment Rs 200 crore by April 2011," TVS Motor Company Chairman Venu Srinivasan told reporters on the sidelines of the SIAM summit here.
He said the company expects to sell 18 lakh of two wheelers in the domestic market and export 2.5 lakh units this year.
On the three-wheeler front, the company expects sales of 50,000 units.
Commenting on the overseas operation, Srinivasan said TVS expects its Indonesian arm to break even by next year. "By next year we should have a design center there," he said.
He also said TVS plans to make Brazil, where it has an assembly unit, to be the hub for the Latin American market.
"We have a capacity of assembling 50,000 units in Brazil per year. We want this to be the hub of Latin America and supply to countries like Columbia, which is an interesting market," Srinivasan said.
The company assembles its motor cycle 'Apache' in Brazil right now. He also said the company is looking to increase export to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and ASEAN countries.
TVS Motor reported a rise of 14.80 per cent in its total two-wheeler sales at 15,21,912 units in the last fiscal year.

Source-Economic Times

TVS MOTORS TO RE-START TWIN SPARK-PLUG FLAME

Mr Venu Srinivasan,Chairman, TVS Motor Company, during the launch of the Flame (file photo).

M Ramesh

Chennai, Aug.12

TVS Motor Company will bring back the Flame, the 125 cc motorcycle that was at the centre of a patent litigation between the company and Bajaj Auto two years ago.

TVS Motor's Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Venu Srinivasan, told Business Line on Tuesday that the company has been selling “small volumes” of the Flame.

TVS Motor is now in the process of switching back to the ‘twin spark-plug' version of the motorcycle. Production is set to start soon.

In 2008, rival two-wheeler manufacturer Bajaj Auto Ltd sued TVS Motor claiming “patent infringement”, holding that the Flame motorcycle had a twin spark plug — a feature that Bajaj said it owned the patent for.

Legal battle

In the the first round of the legal battle, the Madras High Court restrained TVS Motor from selling motorcycles with twin spark-plugs.

TVS won in its appeal in the Supreme Court, but in the meantime, the company had begun selling the Flame motorcycle with single spark-plug.

Following the favourable Supreme Court judgment of September last year, TVS Motor announced the re-launch of twin spark-plug Flame.

Making a point

Perhaps because the market in 2009 was rather lacklustre, it looked like TVS Motor's interest was more to make a point in the market that it had won the patent litigation, and therefore was above reproach.

The company now plans to bring back the Flame with a bang.

“We are clearing the stocks of the single spark-plug version. Production of twin spark-plug Flame will begin this month,” he said.

The Flame will occupy a key slot in TVS Motor's product portfolio.

The company has a range of products in the 100 cc segment (Star, Max 100). Last year, it launched the 110 cc Jive.

As of now, the Jive is selling around 8,000 units a month and Mr Srinivasan is confident of ramping it up to 12,000 by September and to 15,000 during the ‘season' (October-November).

Mopeds are selling well, too, which is a bit of a surprise because it was generally believed that the tiny two-wheeler was a ‘sunset' product.

This year, TVS Motor's moped sales will be up at least 20 per cent.

The company has budgeted to sell 650,000 mopeds this year.

Outside South

“The entire growth of 20 per cent is coming from outside South,” Mr Srinivasan said. This is against the widespread belief that mopeds are a ‘southern phenomenon'.

All of a sudden, the mopeds market seems to have picked up in the North and West.

Mr Srinivasan pointed out that the need for the vehicle was common across the country. “It is a doodh-walla, subzi-walla vehicle.”

Marketing

He felt that if the vehicle had not sold well outside the South earlier, it was more due to less-than-adequate marketing.

To a question, he said that mopeds may be lower-margin vehicles, but their production does occupy significant capacities because mopeds' production lines are unique.

Source: hindu

Joshua wins opening round of INRC

Coimbatore, Aug 1 (PTI)

Pramod Joshua of Team TVS Racing began the season with a bang, by winning the opening round of the MAK Indian National Racing Championship for Bikes, making it a hat-trick of wins here, today. Riding on a TVS Apache, the Bangalore rider Joshua beat teammate and reigning champion by one min 2 seconds in 130 to 165 CC class in Group B 4 stroke, at the dust track at Kethanur, about 45 km from here. Pradeep H K, also of TVS Racing, was third. Local star, Venu Ramesh Kumar, riding a Hero Honda won the 210 to 260 cc Class in Group B 4 stroke to complete a hat-trick here. Second spot went to Chetan Ganapathy. In the Group B 2-stroke, Asad Khan and R Nataraj won in the upto 130 cc and 165 CC class respectively. In group D 4 stroke Kamalakannan beat Sandesh in the upto 130 CC class, while Sarath Kumar finished first, pushing R Raja an Royan Peter second and third in the upto 165 CC category.

Source:ibnlive.in