The next two minutes would be fascinating. A team of Hero R&D and Hero MotorSport staffers would be waiting. We all pulled her leg while pulled on her boots and she just smiled, shook it off and rode with a consistency that would make Jorge Lorenzo proud.Īnd the end of her session, Shriya would be shown the "PIT" board which meant that she was to come to the pit stop the next time around. None of which fazed her even a tiny little bit. Her biggest trouble would be her boots, which were so complicated that it would need two people to do them up before every session and would leave her with blisters by the end. She's fast and smooth, and whenever David set a goal for pace to manage the contradictions in the need to go fast, save fuel and keep the tyres going, she responded with clockwork accuracy and precision, setting lap times that barely changed for up to a 100km at a time. She's shy and soft-spoken but on the bike, you can see the racer in her.
Shriya, as everyone calls her, has been racing cars for two years now, and she's ridden Harleys for years - they run in her family. The third stint was for Anushriya Gulati, the only lady rider in the group. Fuel consumption was lower than planned and tyre consumption seemed to be going to plan. Malo took over from Vijay for the second stint, and had a smooth run. It was an early warning that this would not be simple. Vijay came off the banking thanks to the shadows and in the process, trapped his foot between peg and tarmac, twisting his knee in the process. The bright sun and the dark shadows caused by the barriers creates lines that confuse you quite easily. It went smoothly apart from the fact that Vijay faced one of the oval's hidden challenges. Vijay Thomas started the challenge at 3pm on Saturday. The early sessions were all energy and enthusiasm and the other riders hated the idea that they were required to eat and rest while they waited for their turn. Not just for the riders, but for other road users as well. The plan to ride public roads was quickly nixed. We would ride the Sportster 2,400km in 24 hours. With Ravi Avalur, head of Hero's Harley-Davidson Business Unit, always the enthusiastic participant, getting ever more excited about the idea, a plan was hatched.
What would the Sportster do?Īnd answer, says Vijay Thomas, lead marketing Harley-Davidson Business Unit, Hero MotoCorp, was further. But when it came time to take the new Sportster S, Hero MotoCorp chairman and CEO (and therefore, superboss of the Indian Harley-Davidson team), Dr Pawan Kant Munjal posed a simple question. A forbidding trip that man and machine both completed. Hero's Indian Harley-Davidson team did something incredible taking the Pan America, brand new then, to the top of the Kela Pass. What's the challenge that's brought this ever-smiling, energetic man to this? He's lived in Europe and in Japan, and today he heads corporate strategy and global product planning at Hero MotoCorp. Malo Le Masson is originally from Tunisia.
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