The drag race champion
Updated Mar 2, 2021, 12:04 am IST
Hyderabad racer Sandeep Nadimpalli talks about winning at the eighth edition of the 2021 Valley Run at Amby Valley Lonavala
Sandeep Varma
At 23 years of age, Satyanarayana Raju Nadimpalli, famously known as Sandeep Varma in the racing circles of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, has done wonders on the track. The Hyderabad-based biker has won four prizes in the recently concluded eighth edition of the Valley Race, a national drag race championship, in Lonavala, Maharashtra. The racer won the first prize in the M9 (up to 1,050 cc) category, the fastest bike of the event, fastest timing of the event along with a 3rd place finish in the Unrestricted Category O2. While blazing through the tracks in the event at the speed of 9.52 seconds per lap, Sandeep also went on to break the record of world champion Rickey Gadson’s 9.57 seconds for the same lap.