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Double delight for Armaan

In Race Two, Dilantha jumped two spots to move to fourth and gained another place when the car in front ran wide.

In Race Two, Dilantha jumped two spots to move to fourth and gained another place when the car in front ran wide.

Racer Armaan Ebrahim notched a double along with his Sri Lankan team mate Dilantha Malagamuwa in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia series in Buriram, Thailand, last weekend.

Driving for Team Dilantha Racing, Armaan and Malagamuwa finished third in Race One on Saturday and went one better on Sunday with a second place finish. Armaan had qualified second for Race One, while the ailing Dilantha was placed sixth for the second outing.

Armaan was off to a fine start and went into the lead exiting Turn 1 and maintained the one-second advantage till he pitted for Dilantha to take over.

Dilantha, however, lost one spot and eventually finished third which was creditable considering that the Sri Lankan was on drips going into the weekend due to food poisoning.

In Race Two, Dilantha jumped two spots to move to fourth and gained another place when the car in front ran wide. After the mandatory pit-stop, Armaan took over and put in some blistering laps to move into the second spot, but could not make any progress as he had too much of distance to make up.

Armaan said: “We were a bit unfortunate in the first race after I came in when in the lead as Dilantha had not fully recovered from food poisoning that had him on drip. Considering this, we were happy to finish second.

“In Race Two, Dilantha had to start since he qualified and luckily was feeling better. He got a good start and moved into fourth and after a couple of laps of applying pressure.

“The car in front of him ran wide allowing him to get through.

“Dilantha held third for the rest of his stint, but the gap to the leaders was considerably huge. Once I got in, I had to drive like a quali and managed to catch the car in P2 and pass him. I started making time on the leader, but the gap was too big and we ran out of time which meant we finished a strong second.”

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