British grand prix 2018

The Falcons opened their account with two points winning their trump match (women’s singles) with the Wolves restoring parity in the next match (Men’s doubles). Falcons won a point in the third while Wolves won the fourth, thus rendering the Super Match as the decider.

Grand Prix Badminton League 2022: Sharks score thrilling win, Bulls blank Tuskers

Earlier, Bengaluru Lions overcame a 0-2 deficit to post a thrilling 7-2 victory over Mysore Panthers to begin their campaign on a winning note. The City team shares the top spot on the leaderboard along with Mandya Bulls at seven points. KGF Wolves are third at six points.

The 7-2 score-line defied the looks of an easy encounter and Panthers registered a win in the women’s singles, their trump match to go 2-0 ahead. The Lions fought back with victories in the men’s doubles and singles event respectively to restore parity and then edged out Panthers in the mixed doubles match, their trump match narrowly to gain 2 points and go 4-2 up. With three points at stake, the Super Match could have gone either way as the City team narrowly won 22-20. A loss would have meant a victory for the Panthers.

Results:

KGF Wolves bt Malnad Falcons 6-3

WS: Rashmi Ganesh lost to Drithi Yateesh (Trump) 12-15, 9-15; MD: Prakash Raj / Suhas V (Trump) bt Aravind Kongara / Pruthvi K Roy 15-11, 15-13; MS: Rudra Shahi lost to Mithun Manjunath 10-15, 6-15; MXD: Hemanth M Gowda / Gloria Vinayakumar bt Shamanth Rao Kidiyoor / Drithi Yateesh 14-15, 15-13, 15-11; SM: Hemanth / Prakash Raj / Suhas V bt Pruthvi K Roy / Mithun Manjunath / Samanth 21-19.

Player of the match: Hemanth M Gowda

Bengaluru Lions bt Mysore Panthers 7-2

WS: Janani Ananthkumar lost to Tanya Hemant (Trump) 7-15, 3-15; MD: Sanjeeth S/Vaibhav Srinath bt BM Rahul/Rohith Mariswamy 13-15, 15-14, 15-6; MS: S Bhargav bt Tarun Morab 15-10, 15-9; MXD: Nithin HV / Janani Ananthkumar bt Kiran Kumar G / Tanya Hiremath, 13-15, 15-10, 15-7; SM: Vaibhav Srinath / Nithin HV / Sanjeeth S bt Rohith Mariswamy / BH Rahul / Kiran Kumar G 22-20.

Player of the match: Nithin HV

Sunday’s (Aug 14) matches (Live on Eurosport)

Kodagu Tigers Vs. Bandipur Tuskers 3 p.m.

Mandya Bulls Vs. Mangalore Sharks 6 p.m.

Source: Media Release

As per a media release received, the Sharks went on the back foot losing their opener (women’s singles), but levelled soon winning their trump match (men’s doubles).

After losing the men’s singles and mixed doubles ties, the Sharks were tied at 2-2 before garnering three points from the Super Match to edge ahead.

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The tournament was inaugurated by Dr CN Ashwath Narayan, Minister for Electronics, IT & BT, S&T, Higher Education and Skill Development, Govt of Karnataka, by playing with former national champion Arvind Bhat.

Earlier, Anirudh Deshpande upset former international Daniel Farid in straight games 15-9, 15-6 to help Mandya Bulls amass seven points in their opening match against favorites Bandipur Tuskers.

Tuskers who were the fancied team began on a good note winning the first women’s singles match with Alfiya Riyas winning over Ananya Praveen.

Mandya bulls who declared the men’s doubles as their trump match promptly won it to garner two points and then won their opponent’s trump match (men’s singles) as well.

Their mixed doubles pair of Madhusudhan M and Ruth Misha Vinod rallied from a game down against the pair of Abhishek Yeligar and Apeksha Nayak winning 10-15, 15-14, 15-12 to swell their tally to 4-0. The latest innovation of the Super Match fetched the Bulls three points and ended the match with a bag of seven points.

Results:

(Mangalore Sharks bt Kodagu Tigers 5-2)

Women’s Singles: Vijetha Harish lost to Rujula Ramu 14-15, 15-13, 9-15

Men’s Doubles (Trump match for both teams): Kushal Raj / Raghu Mariswamy bt Adarsh Kumar / Vasantha Kumar 14-15, 15-11, 15-4

Men’s Singles: Jayanth G lost to Saneeth Dayanand 11-15, 8-15

Mixed Doubles: Jayanth G / Vijetha Harish lost to Saif Ali / Ramya Venkatesh 14-15, 8-15

Super Match: Kushal Raj / Raghu Mariswamy / Sachin C bt Adarsh Kumar / Vasantha Kumar HR / Saneeth Dayanand 21-17.

Player of the match: Raghu Mariswamy

(Mandya Bulls bt Bandipur Tuskers 7-0)

Women’s Singles: Ananya Praveen lost to Alfiya Riyas 14-15, 8-15

Men’s Doubles: Ashith Surya / Sai Pratheek (Trump match) bt Kishal Ganapathy / Vaibhav V 15-11, 15-12

Men’s Singles: Anirudh Deshpande bt Daniel Farid (Trump match) 15-9, 15-6

Mixed Doubles: MadhusudhanM / Ruth Misha Vinod bt Abhishek Yeligar / Apeksha Nayak 10-15, 15-14, 15-12

Super Match: Ashith Surya / Sai Pratheek / Madhusudhan M bt Abhishek Yeligar / Vaibhav V /Ganesh Vittalji 21-16.

Player of the match: Sai Pratheek

Saturday’s matches:

Bengaluru Lions vs Mysore Panthers 3 pm

Malnad Falcons vs KGF Wolves 6 pm.

With the victory, the Sharks jumped to the top of the leaderboard with 11 points from two games while Mandya Bulls lie second at 10 points.

The Sharks raced to a 3-0 lead after their ‘Trump’ win in the women’s singles and Men’s doubles.

However, they lost the Singles and mixed doubles match, trump match for their rivals as the scores were level at 3-3. In a tight super match, Mandya bulls scored eight points consecutively to almost catch up with the Sharks as the latter posted a narrow 21-19 win to earn three points.

In the earlier match of the day, Kodagu Tigers fielded Rujula Ramu in their opening match (women’s singles) which was also their trump match. The youngster lived up to her reputation giving two points for her team beating Alifya Riyas.

The doubles duo of Abhisehk Yeligar and Vaibhav V then restored parity after winning their trump match (men’s doubles). Abhishek Yeligar put Tuskers ahead in the men’s singles but the mixed pair of Saneeth Dayanand and Ramya Venkatesh levelled it for Tigers. Bandipur then won the Super Match comfortably to garner three points.

Results:

Mangalore Sharks bt Mandya Bulls bt 6-3

WS: Vijetha Harish (Trump) bt Ananya Praveen 15-5, 12-15, 15-6; MD: Kushal Raj / Raghu Mariswamy bt Ashisth Surya / Madhusudhan M 15-14, 15-10; MS: Jayanth G lost to Anirudh Deshpande 14-15, 13-15; MXD: Sunil Galdson / Vijetha Harish lost to Sai Pratheek / Ananya Praveen (Trump) bt 8-15, 8-15; SM: Raghu Mariswamy / Kushal Raj / Sachin C bt Ashith Surya / Sai Pratheek / Madhusudhan M bt 21-19.

Player of the tie: Sai Pratheek

Bandipur Tuskers bt Kodagu Tigers 6-3

WS: Alifiya Riyas lost to Rujula Ramu (Trump) 9-15, 11-15; MD: Abhishek Yeligar / Vaibhav V (Trump) bt Adarsh Kumar / Vasantha Kumar HR 15-13, 11-15, 15-8; MS: Abhishek Yeligar bt Vishesh Sharma 15-6, 15-7; MXD: Kishal Ganapathy/Apeksha Nayak lost to Saneeth Dayanand / Ramya Venkatesh 10-15, 12-15; SM: Daniel Farid / Vaibhav V /Ganesh Vittalji bt Saneeth Dayanand / Vasantha Kumar / Adarsh Kumar 21-16.

Player of the tie: Abhishek Yeligar

Source: Media Release

The other match of the day is evenly poised with Kodagu Tigers locking horns with Mangalore Sharks.

The 10-day event features eight teams in a two-tier league format. The teams are divided into two groups of four teams each. Based on points, the top four teams from both the groups together will qualify for the round-robin knock-out stage.

The two toppers will clash for Rs 24-lakh winners purse on Aug 21.

Bandipur Tuskers have Abhishek Yeligar who is in hot form with the State championship title he garnered last week and former India No.1 Daniel Farid who is also a winner of six National ranking tournaments. While the Tuskers will rely on their singles prowess, Bulls will depend on their doubles players with Sai Pratheek, winner in the doubles and mixed doubles of the State championship last week being in superb form and Ashith Surya who has shown good promise.

Meanwhile in the second encounter of the day, Kodagu Tigers are backed by the in-form Rujula Ramu who won the State championship women’s title and finished runner-up in the U-19 last week, and its icon player Saneeth Dayanand who will look to exploit the shares in the singles.

Their opponents Mangalore Sharks are fronted by their star singles player Raghu Mariswami and doubles specialist Kushal Raj.

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Friday’s matches (Aug 12)

Bandipur Tuskers Vs. Mandya Bulls 3 p.m.;

Mangalore Sharks Vs. Kodagu Tigers 6 p.m.

Groupings:

Group A: Bandipur Tuskers, Mandya Bulls, Kodagu Tigers, Mangalore Sharks

Group B: Mysore Panthers, Bengaluru Lions, KGF Wolves, Malnad Falcons

Teams

(Group A):

KODAGU TIGERS:

Saneeth Dayanand, Rujula Ramu, Ramya Venkatesh, Vasantha Kumar HR, Vishesh Sharma, Sheethal D, S Adarsh Kumar, Saif Ali, Ashwini Ponappa (Mentor), Varsha Belawadi (Chief Coach), Mohan Kumar (Asst. Coach).

BANDIPUR TUSKERS:

Daniel Farid, Alfiya Riyas, Abhishek Yeligar, Apeksha Nayak, Vaibhaav Vaibhaav, Jade Anil, Kishal Ganapathy, Ganesh V, Jwala Gutta (Mentor), Srinath JR (Chief Coach), Anirudh Shurpali (Asst. Coach).

MANDYA BULLS:

Sai Pratheek, Ananya Praveen, Ashith Surya, Kiran Balaji, Anirudh Deshpande, Karthikey K, Nitin Sappar, Ruth Misha Vinod, Sai Praneeth (Mentor), Guruprasad B (Chief Coach), Vinod HV (Asst. Coach).

MANGALORE SHARKS:

Raghu Mariswami, Vijetha Harish, Prerana N Shet, Kushal Raj, Jayanth Gopal, Sunil Gladson, Sachin C, Shashank S, Srikant Kidambi (Mentor), Raghavan Padmanabha (Chief Coach), Renuka Prasad NH (Asst. Coach).

Source: Media Releas

Nigel Mansell’s long journey to championship success finally reached its end 20 years ago today.

Mansell had dominated the 1992 championship in his Williams-Renault FW14B . By finishing second in the Hungarian Grand Prix he won the world championship at an earlier point in the season than any driver in F1 history.

But even as Mansell celebrated his crown the machinations that would see him leave the sport without defending his title had already begun.

Fuel row

Mansell went into the 11th race of the 1992 season on the back of an unprecedented streak of success. He had begun the year with five consecutive victories – a new record – and arrived at the Hungaroring having completed a further hat-trick of wins at Magny-Cours, Silverstone and Hockenheim.

He led team mate Riccardo Patrese in the championship by 46 points and victory in Hungary would seal the title.

Mansell had already equalled Ayrton Senna’s record for most wins in a season. Senna looked certain to lose his crown, but McLaren were not yet ready to throw in the towel. They arrived in Hungary with a new traction control system, which Senna ran for the first time in the warm-up on Sunday.

But Williams remained the team to beat. Then as now, Adrian Newey was at the cutting edge of car design and the FW14B he masterminded with Patrick Head gave them a decisive edge, much as Red Bull’s cars have recently.

Continuing the parallels with today, the FIA were making every effort to rein them in. Heading into the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend a storm had blown up over the use of exotic mixtures in racing fuels.

The FIA tried, with some difficulty, to limit teams to using fuels that could be purchased from petrol stations. This weighed on Mansell’s mind as the decisive weekend approached. Testing revealed his Williams would likely see a drop in horsepower, but paddock gossip suggested other teams were not as badly affected.

But sheer engine power has never mattered as much at the Hungaroring as downforce and traction, and the active suspension Williams FW14B had that in spades. It was an advantage Mansell tended to give too little credit to.

F1’s last pre-qualifying session

With 31 cars entered for the race a pre-qualifying session was held before practice began to whittle the entry down to 30. This involved sending five of the lowest-ranked entries onto the track on Friday morning and eliminating the slowest.

However, not for the first time in 1992, the lamentable Andrea Moda team made a mockery of the session by refusing to give one of their drivers a chance to make the cut.

Perry McCarthy (later The Stig on BBC’s Top Gear) had already suffered the indignity of being sent out for his pre-qualifying effort at his home race at Silverstone on a dry track using old wet-weather tyres. In Hungary his patience finally snapped after being let out of the pits for the first time with 50 seconds remaining – clearly not enough time to get a lap in.

A furious McCarthy gave team boss Andrea Sasseti a verbal dressing-down on his return to the pits. But he regretted it when Arrows team boss Jackie Oliver stopped by later to invite McCarthy to test for them, providing he could gain Sasseti’s permission. Unsurprisingly, it was not forthcoming.

The FIA warned Andrea Moda to make a genuine effort at pre-qualifying both cars in future. But the collapse of the Brabham team following the race meant there would be no more pre-qualifying sessions.

And, after the bailiffs turned up during the next race at Spa-Francorchamps, there would be no more Andrea Moda either.

1992 Hungarian Grand Prix grid

Riccardo Patrese beat an out-of-sorts Mansell to pole position – an unusual development in a season where Mansell had typically beaten his team mate by over a second on Saturday.

A series of niggling problem dogged Mansell in the build-up to the races. He also had a dramatic moment when he caught the slow Jordan of Stefano Modena on a fast lap and turned off the circuit at speed (see video).

Michael Schumacher split the McLarens for fourth after Gerhard Berger had a high-speed spin late in qualifying. The flailing Brabham team trimmed their entry to a single car and Damon Hill put it 25th on the grid.

Alessandro Zanardi’s sixth appearance at an F1 race weekend did not end well. Substituting for the injured Christian Fittipaldi at Minardi, he spun and was given a push by the marshals in the second qualifying session on Saturday, for which he had all his times deleted. His fastest time from Friday qualifying was not quick enough for him to make the cut.

Pierluigi Martini lined up last on the grid for Dallara once the team had corrected an unusual fault with his gearbox – it had been fitted with two third gears.

Row 1	1. Riccardo Patrese 1’15.476 Williams-Renault
		2. Nigel Mansell 1’15.643 Williams-Renault
Row 2	3. Ayrton Senna 1’16.267 McLaren-Honda
		4. Michael Schumacher 1’16.524 Benetton-Ford
Row 3	5. Gerhard Berger 1’17.277 McLaren-Honda
		6. Martin Brundle 1’18.148 Benetton-Ford
Row 4	7. Michele Alboreto 1’18.604 Footwork-Mugen-Honda
		8. Thierry Boutsen 1’18.616 Ligier-Renault
Row 5	9. Jean Alesi 1’18.665 Ferrari
		10. Ivan Capelli 1’18.765 Ferrari
Row 6	11. Erik Comas 1’18.902 Ligier-Renault
		12. Gabriele Tarquini 1’19.123 Fondmetal-Ford
Row 7	13. Johnny Herbert 1’19.143 Lotus-Ford
		14. Aguri Suzuki 1’19.200 Footwork-Mugen-Honda
Row 8	15. Bertrand Gachot 1’19.365 Venturi-Lamborghini
		16. Mika Hakkinen 1’19.587 Lotus-Ford
Row 9	17. Paul Belmondo 1’19.626 March-Ilmor
		18. Eric van de Poele 1’19.776 Fondmetal-Ford
Row 10	19. Andrea de Cesaris 1’19.867 Tyrrell-Ilmor
		20. Ukyo Katayama 1’19.990 Venturi-Lamborghini
Row 11	21. Mauricio Gugelmin 1’20.023 Jordan-Yamaha
		22. Olivier Grouillard 1’20.063 Tyrrell-Ilmor
Row 12	23. Karl Wendlinger 1’20.315 March-Ilmor
		24. Stefano Modena 1’20.707 Jordan-Yamaha
Row 13	25. Damon Hill 1’20.781 Brabham-Judd
		26. Pierluigi Martini 1’20.988 Dallara-Ferrari

Did not qualify

Did not pre-qualify

Mansell slips back

Mansell had good reason to be concerned about starting off-line at the slippery Hungaroring. In the event he got off the line well and was even able to take a look down the inside of his team mate as he reached turn one. But as Mansell backed out of the move the McLarens pounced – Senna and Berger demoting him to fourth.

Schumacher briefly pressured Mansell for his position, but the Williams pulled away leaving the Benetton driver to fend off the attention of team mate Martin Brundle .

Mansell dived down the inside of Berger to claim third place on lap eight. Next he went after Senna, but the world champion covered the inside line at the first corner, obliging Mansell to back off.

Phantom safety car

Lap 14 was a busy one for the Hungarian marshals as five cars retired in a pair of incidents. First Bertrand Gachot and Aguri Suzuki tangled at the second corner. The pair interlocked with damaged suspension which gave Suzuki considerable difficulty pulling his car off the track.

Further around the lap Olivier Grouillard, Karl Wendlinger and Stefano Modena collided, leaving Modena’s heavily damaged Jordan in the middle of the track.

Race control prepared to send out the safety car, which at the time was a recent addition to Grand Prix racing. The procedure was not as well-drilled as today, and ended up with the ‘SC’ boards being briefly shown but no pace car appearing on the circuit. Unfortunately for Patrese he had already backed off before the boards were withdrawn, costing him considerable time.

Mansell pressured Senna hard for second place until they came across the lapped Martini. He held up Mansell badly and was handed a ten-second stop-go penalty – another recent innovation – for his trouble.

Benetton battle

Meanwhile Mika Hakkinen had made superb progress in his Lotus. He passed Gachot and the Ferrari of Ivan Capelli and arrived on the tail of the Benettons.

The yellow cars were embroiled in a race-long battle which had begun when Schumacher ran wide early in the race and turned sharply back onto the racing line, squeezing Brundle off the track.

Now Hakkinen split the pair of them, passing Brundle before dropping back behind again. Brundle then took Schumacher only to also be re-passed by his team mate later on.

Mansell closed back on Senna but made a mistake at the penultimate corner, allowing Berger past again. But this time the backmarkers worked in Mansell’s favour – while Berger was delayed by traffic, Mansell got back down the inside.

The Williamses hit trouble

Freed of Berger, Mansell began closing in on Senna again – and now the battle was for the lead. Patrese had spun on lap 39, resuming in seventh place behind Hakkinen and the Benettons.

This changed the picture in the championship – with Mansell set to claim six points for second and Patrese not scoring, the title would be Mansell’s. His position was further strengthened when Patrese ducked into the pits on lap 56, the smoke from the back of his car signalling a rare Renault engine failure.

But just five laps later Mansell headed for the pits too. He had fallen over 20 seconds behind Senna and the team suspected a tyre problem – hanging out a pit board bearing the message “puncture?”.

It had taken a while for Mansell to realise why he was losing ground to Senna. “The trouble with the active ride is it compensates if there’s a puncture. So if the rear tyre’s going down it just jacks itself up.”

“We got a warning light in the cockpit but because that malfunctioned in Germany we taped it over – so this time it was working but we couldn’t see it!”

Being forced to pit was a considerable disadvantage in a race that was expected to run without pit stops. All the teams were using Goodyear tyres which were considerably more conservative than today’s Pirellis.

Mansell clinches the title

Mansell returned to the track in sixth place with 16 laps to go. Senna now enjoyed a 30-second lead over his team mate – more than enough to make a precautionary pit stop for fresh tyres to cure a vibration he had become increasingly concerned about.

A spot of luck handed Mansell his first position after his pit stop. The scrapping Benettons had caught Berger – on lap 63 Schumacher had to brake hard to avoid the McLaren. Brundle clipped the back of his team mate’s car which had disastrous consequences when Schumacher reached the fastest point on the circuit: his rear wing flew off, sending him spinning off the circuit, fortunately without damage or injury.

Mansell made light work of the cars ahead, taking Herbert, Brundle and Berger one by one at the first corner. By lap 69 he was back into second place and on his way to the world championship.

Brundle continued to throw everything he had at Berger but he needed to be more wary of Hakkinen. The Lotus driver got alongside him on the run to turn one on lap 73 and claimed an excellent fourth place.

After Senna crossed the line there was a 40-second wait for the driver who succeeded him as world champion. Mansell had spent much of 1992 leading races from the front, but in Hungary he won the title with a performance more akin to his battling recovery drives.

“It’s the most astonishing feeling for me, maybe even more so than for other people who’ve won it without being runner-up three times,” he said afterwards. “When you get as close as me and you don’t crack it you start to think are you ever going to crack it.”

1992 Hungarian Grand Prix result

Brundle went off on the final lap before claiming fifth place. His team mate’s demise promoted Capelli to sixth place for his second points finish of the year.

This was a badly-needed result for Capelli in Ferrari’s 500th world championship race. But it was too late to save his place at the team, who had already announced he was being dropped for the following season.

It was a disastrous weekend for the Ligier team, whose drivers were out within a few seconds of the start. Erik Comas spun at the first corner and was collected by 1990 race-winner Thierry Boutsen. Lotus’s Johnny Herbert was also eliminated in the melee.

The last classified runner was Hill, who crossed the line four laps down in 11th. After 30 years and 394 races, the Brabham team had finished its last Grand Prix.

Pos.	#	Driver	Team	Laps	Gap	Reason
1	1	Ayrton Senna	McLaren-Honda	77
2	5	Nigel Mansell	Williams-Renault	77	40.139
3	2	Gerhard Berger	McLaren-Honda	77	50.782
4	11	Mika Hakkinen	Lotus-Ford	77	54.313
5	20	Martin Brundle	Benetton-Ford	77	57.498
6	28	Ivan Capelli	Ferrari	76	1 lap
7	9	Michele Alboreto	Footwork-Mugen-Honda	75	2 laps
8	4	Andrea de Cesaris	Tyrrell-Ilmor	75	2 laps
9	17	Paul Belmondo	March-Ilmor	74	3 laps
10	33	Mauricio Gugelmin	Jordan-Yamaha	73	4 laps
11	8	Damon Hill	Brabham-Judd	73	4 laps
Not classified
	19	Michael Schumacher	Benetton-Ford	63		Broken wing
	6	Riccardo Patrese	Williams-Renault	55		Engine
	22	Pierluigi Martini	Dallara-Ferrari	40		Gearbox
	30	Ukyo Katayama	Venturi-Lamborghini	35		Engine
	27	Jean Alesi	Ferrari	14		Halfshaft
	29	Bertrand Gachot	Venturi-Lamborghini	13		Broken wing
	10	Aguri Suzuki	Footwork-Mugen-Honda	13		Accident
	3	Olivier Grouillard	Tyrrell-Ilmor	13		Accident
	16	Karl Wendlinger	March-Ilmor	13		Accident
	32	Stefano Modena	Jordan-Yamaha	13		Accident
	14	Eric van de Poele	Fondmetal-Ford	2		Accident
	25	Thierry Boutsen	Ligier-Renault	0		Accident
	26	Erik Comas	Ligier-Renault	0		Accident
	15	Gabriele Tarquini	Fondmetal-Ford	0		Accident
	12	Johnny Herbert	Lotus-Ford	0		Accident

Mansell and Williams part ways

Mansell’s contract for 1993 was a major talking point on the weekend he became world champion. There was intense speculation that Williams, under pressure from engine suppliers Renault, had already agreed terms for Alain Prost to drive for them. These rumours would soon prove to be true.

During the Hungarian race weekend Mansell believed he’d agreed terms with Frank Williams to remain at the team alongside Prost in 1993. But talks between him and Williams later broke down and he left F1 to race in IndyCar.

But that lay in the future. For now, Mansell had finally joined the ranks of the world champions. Senna, the outgoing champion, welcomed him on the podium with the words “Well done, Nigel. It’s such a good feeling, isn’t it?”

“Now you know why I’m such a bastard. I don’t ever want to lose this feeling or let anyone else experience it.”

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