Moto Jam: When bikes flew at Chennai’s thrilling motorsport stunt present

Chennai hosts Crimson Bull Moto Jam

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The Hindu

It’s a chook. It’s a airplane.

No, it’s a motorbike. And it’s up within the air.

On the recently-held Crimson Bull Moto Jam in Chennai’s Island Grounds, bikes flew within the air and vehicles raced sidewards. Even because the motorists had enjoyable with their automobiles, audiences watched in awe, in a night that was all about pace and elegance.

They weren’t the one ones having enjoyable. Director Lokesh Kanagaraj, a shock visitor, went on a spin with rally champion Abdo Feghali, who, sporting a yellow Chennai Tremendous Kings jersey, did the whole lot potential with a BMW M4 automotive together with fast spins and quick turns.

A lot later, Lokesh, presently engaged on Rajinikanth’s Coolie, would say, “I’ve by no means skilled one thing like this.”

That just about sums up the emotion that 1000’s of Chennaiites felt, whilst they skilled a multi-discipline celebration of motorsports with motorists pushing their limits with their machines. If stunt racer Abdulrahman Ahmed Alraeesi acquired his automotive to race on two wheels, Sebastian Westberg, Vivian Ganther and Thomas Wirnsberger revved their freestyle motocross bikes to carry out stunts within the air, a lot to the delight of the spectators.

Amongst many firsts that this motorsport spectacle threw up have been Lebanon-based Abdo Feghali’s stunts utilizing drifting, a driving method the place a automotive is made to slip sideways, and Lithuania-based Arunas Gibieza’s (Aras) stunts on his Triumph Avenue triple stunt bike.

A stunt bike rider at Crimson Bull Moto Jam 2025, held at Island Grounds in Chennai
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S Shiva Raj

Aras is not any stranger to Chennai, having carried out earlier in reveals and faculty occasions. He began off with a delicate wheelie however quickly, got here into his personal when he stood on the bike, even because the car stored transferring ahead. Aras remembers, “After I was 4, I used to be at a pal’s place, having dinner, when the TV showcased a race. The man who completed the race was crossing the end line in model. I mentioned, ‘Wow, I need to try this.’”

He did precisely that in Moto Jam, whereas Chennai appeared on in awe. Aras, dreaming to quickly get a Guinness Document for the longest no-hands motorbike wheelie, a document he held not way back, is thrilled on the public help he acquired in India. “This may go a great distance in spreading the phrase about motorsports within the nation, and I hope it evokes many individuals to take it up, with applicable security precautions.”