Jaipur, June 15: C Vijay Kumar of team TVS racing gave yet another classy performance to emerge the overall winner in the showpiece event -- the foreign open class -- in the second round of the MRF National Motocross Championship here today. Beaten to second place by arch-rival Yogesh Barguje of team Yamaha in the 12-lap Moto 1 earlier in the day, Vijay Kumar dominated the proceedings in the second round and capped his fine performance with an emphatic victory.

The first round saw team Yamaha appearing well set for a strong finish when T K Vishwanath took the lead at the start, followed by TVS racing's Gopal Prasad, Barguje and Vijay Kumar.

But when Vishwanath and Prasad suffered a fall and lost positions, it was a straight fight between Barguje and Vijay Kumar.

Barguje managed to hang on to win the Moto 1 but in Moto 2, Vijay Kumar made it a start-to-finish affair to win comfortably from Yamaha's Sayed Eathasham and TVS racing's Sayed Rehman.

The MRF Motocross Championship takes a two-month break with the third round scheduled to be held at Vadodara in late August.

Bureau Report