Some of the country’s best off-roaders prepare to do battle
Competition is expected to be tough in the third season of the Force Gurkha RFC India as 25 top teams get set to do battle against each other, as well as against the unforgiving terrain. Apart from returning competitors, this edition of the Force Gurkha RFC India will see many prominent off-road aficionados debuting in India’s first international off-road event.
Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh, Bangalore Offroaders Development Association (BODA) and KTM Jeepers from Kerala lead the pack with 4 entries from each of these well-known off-roading clubs. Mumbai’s Team Fairmont and Hyderabad’s Charminar Off Road Adventure Club (CORAC) will each be represented by 2 teams. V5 Offroaders from Coorg, Mudhogs from Sakleshpur, Northern India Offroad Club (NIOC) and Incredible Offroaders Goa will be represented by one team per club.
Two of the competitors, Jagat Nanjappa from V5 Offroaders and Tejinder Singh from Gerrari Offroaders Chandigarh, are the winners of Force Gurkha RFC South and North India Chapters respectively which were held earlier this year. As a result, they have earned free automatic entry to Force Gurkha RFC India 2016. Two factory-backed Force Motors teams, led by Malaysian drivers Tan Eng Joo and Mervyn Lim, will be back in the fray trying to retain their top two slots of the previous two editions. Additionally, there are two individual entries from Pune and Hyderabad.
Force Gurkha RFC India 2016 will take place in Goa from 22nd July to 29th July. Below are listed the 25 teams participating in the event.
| S.No | Driver | Co Driver | Place | Team |
| 1 | Kabir Waraich | Gagan Sachdeva | Chandigarh | Gerrari Offroaders |
| 2 | Gurmeet Virdi | Kirpal Singh Tung | Chandigarh | Gerrari Offroaders |
| 3 | Gurpratap Singh | Sanbir Singh Dhaliwal | Chandigarh | Gerrari Offroaders |
| 4 | Tejinder Singh | Harpreet Singh | Chandigarh | Gerrari Offroaders |
| 5 | Bijender Singh | Gajendar Singh | Chandigarh | NIOC |
| 6 | Sameer Chunawala | Amrut Kadam | Mumbai | Team Fairmont |
| 7 | Sajid Fakih | Imram Kazi | Mumbai | Team Fairmont |
| 8 | Daulat Chaudhary | Jay Kumar | Pune | – |
| 9 | Prashanth GV | Pradeep Gowda | Bangalore | BODA |
| 10 | Lokesh Shivraj | Rohith KR | Bangalore | BODA |
| 11 | Vivek Kuriakose | Ashok Kuriakose | Bangalore | BODA |
| 12 | Pradeep Kumar | Prithviraj AC | Bangalore | BODA |
| 13 | Narthan Byramudi | Satish Kumar | Sakleshpur | Mudhogs |
| 14 | Jagat Nanjappa | Chethan Chengappa | Coorg | V5 Offoraders |
| 15 | Sam Kurian Karaickal | Guhan Shetty | Kerala | KTM Jeepers |
| 16 | Kurian Kurian | Prem Kumar | Kerala | KTM Jeepers |
| 17 | Anand Manjooran | George Verghese | Kerala | KTM Jeepers |
| 18 | Raju Paul | Kevin | Kerala | KTM Jeepers |
| 19 | Chaitanya Challa | Shabarish Jagarapu | Hyderabad | Team Hyderabad |
| 20 | Rajsekhara Prabhu | Arun Parikshat | Hyderabad | Team Mars |
| 21 | Abinav Nukala | T Laxmikanth | Hyderabad | CORAC |
| 22 | Jitender Raju | Sukesh Reddy | Hyderabad | CORAC |
| 23 | Tejas Prakash Shindolkar | Pushkar Audi | Goa | Incredible Offroaders Goa |
| 24 | Tan Eng Joo | Tan Choon Hong | Pune | Force Motors Ltd |
| 25 | Merwyn Lim | Hamizan Bin Abdul Hamid | Pune | Force Motors Ltd |
