Gypsy Challenge at Coimbatore: Chethan Chengappa Leads the Six-Car Fight

The FMSCI Gypsy Challenge brought six crews and a familiar shape of Indian rallying to Rally of Coimbatore. The published class summary placed Chethan Chengappa and Sujith Chengappa first, Sanjay Agarwal and Dinky Varghese second, and Kariappa Mekerira and Abhinav Ganapathy third.

The detailed overall export carries six Gypsy entries through the event. It gives the category a wider story than the podium alone, with Avin Nanjappa and Abhilash Sudhindra, Vinod Singh and Shailendra Singh, and Kavan Kariappa K G and Gaurav Aiyappa also reaching the classified record.

Chethan and Sujith take the published class win

Chethan Chengappa and Sujith Chengappa led the FMSCI Gypsy Challenge summary. The result gave the Kodagu crew the class headline after a rally built around fast, repeated gravel stages and a route that tested older four-wheel-drive machinery through every service window.

Sanjay Agarwal and Dinky Varghese were listed second in the published class summary. Kariappa Mekerira and Abhinav Ganapathy completed the published top three. The three crews created the front of a category where car control, reliability and the ability to keep a familiar platform moving mattered as much as outright stage speed.

All six classified Gypsy crews

Kariappa Mekerira and Abhinav Ganapathy appear in the overall export at thirty-second, followed by Avin Nanjappa and Abhilash Sudhindra at thirty-sixth. Chethan Chengappa and Sujith Chengappa are listed at thirty-seventh, Sanjay Agarwal and Dinky Varghese at thirty-ninth, Vinod Singh and Shailendra Singh at forty-second, and Kavan Kariappa K G and Gaurav Aiyappa at fifty-second.

The class summary and the overall export present different ordering information for the Gypsy entries. This report follows the published FMSCI class summary for the class podium and the official overall export for the complete list of classified crews. Keeping both views visible gives readers the clearest record available from the event material.

A category with its own rhythm

The Gypsy Challenge does more than add older machinery to a national rally. It gives drivers and navigators a category with a particular rhythm, where traction, weight transfer and mechanical sympathy shape the way speed is built. The six-crew record shows how many different crews kept that rhythm alive through Coimbatore.