Arun Muthukrishnan

Arun Muthukrishnan (born 2 November 1991 in Chennai, India). He started his career in motorcycle racing with a burning passion for the sport. He has finished 2nd in the 2012 SIDVIN MMSC-FMSCI Indian national motorcycle championship and 3rd in the Yamaha one make championship 2012. Arun Muthukrishnan has also represented India in the 2012 Yamaha ASEAN cup held in Philippines.

Personal Life

Arun Muthukrishnan is the only son of an entrepreneur, P.Muthukrishnan and a high school English teacher, Surya Kumari Muthukrishnan. He was born and raised in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his schooling in March, 2009 in a city school, SBOA School & Junior College. His interest in the working of machines and engines drove him towards studying Mechanical engineering. He is currently in his fourth year of studies.

Career in Motorcycle racing

Arun Muthukrishnan first visited the Irungattukottai Race Track, Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India in 2010. He made necessary arrangements at once and decided to race. It was during a practice session that he crashed and totaled his bike. Due to the lack of finances and family support, he was unable to invest in his racing. It was in the year 2012, when he received the approval of his parents, that he began to build his racing career.

The first round of the national championship was held in the month of April 2012 in the Kari Speedway in Coimbatore. He participated in two categories, Group-D 4 stroke up to 165cc novice and Yamaha one make novice. He qualified sixth on the grid for the group-D national championship and qualified pole in the Yamaha one make. Unfortunately, he crashed in both the Yamaha one make races. He finished third and fourth in the group-D national championship races. Later in the second round of the national championship held in MMRT Chennai, Arun Muthukrishnan participated in an other category, TVS APACHE 180cc one make championship where he qualified fourteenth in the grid for the TVS one make race due to bike problems but finished second in both the races. In Yamaha one make races he qualified second and finished race one and two in the second and fifth places respectively and in the group-D national championship he finished the first and second races in the top spot of the podium.

In the third round of the national championship he won both the races of the group-D national championship, he finished second and third in the TVS one make races and first and fourth in the Yamaha one make races. During round four of the group-D national championship qualifying, he crashed and broke his left wrist and this injury prevented him from participating in any race for the weekend. Later in the final round of the national championship, Arun Muthukrishnan was the only rider to have been on the podium six times that weekend. He won both the races in the Group-D national championship races, finished second and first in the TVS one make championship races and third and first in the Yamaha one make championship races. These victories placed him second overall in the national championship behind the leader by 4 points, fourth in the overall TVS APACHE 180cc One make championship and third in the overall Yamaha one make championship.

Yamaha ASEAN cup 2012, Philippines

Arun Muthukrishnan was one of the top 3 riders in India who were selected to participate in the ASEAN cup. It was totally a different type of race where Indian riders had zero experience, yet he managed to qualify twentieth out of the twenty four at the grid. At the first race, Arun Muthukrishnan crashed in the third lap and rode again to finish seventeenth and in the second race he unfortunately crashed and damaged the bike.

External links

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/arun-and-jagan-shine/article3879646.ece

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/shyam-corners-glory/article4233466.ece