Sandeep Kumar, Gouthan Parekh and Raghul Rangasamy each won a race as the hard-fought MRF F1600 Championship headed to its spiritual home at the Madras Motor Race Track near Chennai this past weekend.

Saturday’s fifth round of the Investchem South African Formula 1600 championship delivered action aplenty, albeit somewhat of a stalemate in title terms as championship protagonists Nicholas van Weely and Stuart White took a race apiece at a sodden Aldo Scribante Racetrack in Port Elizabeth as they continued to fight it out for the championship cash prize and the Mazda Road to Indy shootout drive that comes with it.

Jake Craig, from Mission Viejo, Calif., leads the hard-fought Toyo Tires F1600 Championship Series point standings at the halfway point in the season.

The third edition of the Mazda Road to Indy in Brazil already has its champion. Eighteen-year-old Allan Croce, who won the Brazilian Kart Open in the Graduated category on June 23, will represent his country in the Mazda Road to Indy $200K Scholarship Shootout at the end of the year in the United States.

Ashwin Datta made stunning debut in the MRF F1600 category last weekend by dominating all three races as part of the MRF MMSC fmsci Indian National Racing Championship at Kari Motor Speedway.