In Indian Motorsports
In road races at Sholavaram, it ran in its own 250 cc class while in the Indian open class category its main rival was Enfield Bullet and later the much more powerful Rajdoot RD350. Power was usually increased to 25 plus bhp or beyond for Group E categories where the engine was bored up till 300 cc and the engine was over-engineered in stock trim. In track racing the most famous was C.K.Chinnappa and Somendar Singh. In rallies the rallyist couple Jagat and Anita Nanjappa and Thirumal Roy won several victories before switching to Rajdoot Yamaha RD350. During early 1990s FMSCI, the sporting federation of India banned Two wheelers above 120 cc into rallying thus ending its run with motor sports.
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