HALL OF FAME
Inspire India’s Ultra Races have provided a number of participants with opportunities to push beyond their limits. While every story is an inspiring one, featured here are only a handful of participants who inspire.
Shushanah Pillinger won the 1st Edition of Deccan Cliffhanger, went on to become the First British Woman to finish RAAM Solo.
Kabir Rachure who finished RAAM Solo successfully in 2019, is the only person to have successfully RAAM Qualified at all 3 Inspire India Races (twice)…. and with a podium finish in each. Also with 8 RQs he has the highest no. or RQs by any Indian.
Bharat Pannu RAAM Qualified at the 1st edition of The Ultra Spice 1000Km, did RAA 2 person team 2200 km in 2017, raced Ultra Spice 3 more times and Raced DC in addition to 3 successful Guinness World Record attempts in 2019-20
Ila Patil is the first Indian Woman to Qualify for Race Across America at DC2016. She is also the first woman to complete the Ultra Spice 1750km.
A racer who Qualified for RAAM in the 2nd and 3rd Editions of DC and finished RAAM solo, won The Ultra Spice 1750km and finished RAA solo 2200 km
A racer who RAAM Qualified at DC 3rd Edition and finished RAAM solo in 2017. He also finished The Trans Siberian Extreme and came second in the inaugural edition of The Great Himalayan Ultra.
Bharat Pannu with Darshan Dubey, who crewed for Bharat in both his Ultra Spice wins, did 2 person team at Race Around Austria 2200 km in 2017.
Mohinder S. Bharaj became the oldest Indian to RAAM Qualify when he completed DC in 2017 at the age of 62. Dashrath Jadhav achieved the same, RQ at age 62 in 2019.
PERMANENT RQ NO.S
Inspire India started issuing permanent No.s to Solo Participants from the 3rd Edition onwards. Permanent No.s have been assigned later to 1st and 2nd edItion participants, listed below. Rider profile, achievements and blog links will be updated shortly.
| RQ Number | Team Name | Solo Racer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RQ - 001 | Team Chai | Chaitanya Velhal | ||
| RQ - 002 | Team Apurv | Apurv Verma | ||
| RQ - 003 | TEAM SRINI | Srinivas Gokulnath | ||
| RQ - 004 | Team Shu for RAAM | Shusanah Pillinger | ||
| RQ - 005 | Team Agni | Sumit Patil | ||
| RQ - 006 | Gyanendra Sharma | |||
| RQ - 007 | Saniya Patil | |||
| RQ - 008 | Team Click And Move | Rahul Kotabage | ||
| RQ - 009 | Nitin Takale | |||
| RQ - 010 | Pune Wolfpack | Michael Lehnig | ||
| RQ - 011 | Manohar Tanpure | |||
| RQ - 012 | Nashik Cyclists Pro | Kishor Kale | ||
| RQ - 013 | Team FYS | Darshan Dubey | ||
| RQ - 014 | Life Cycling Green Surat | JAGDISH ITALIYA | ||
| RQ - 015 | Team Claris Cyclone | Gaurav Yadav | ||
| RQ - 016 | TEAM DINESH | Dinesh Marathe | ||
| RQ - 017 | Aruneet Utkarsh | |||
| RQ - 018 | Team Armur | Arjun Murali | ||
| RQ - 019 | SR Zero | Aniruddha Raich | ||
| RQ - 020 | nasik cyclist pro | Ammar Miyaji | ||
| RQ - 021 | Nagpuri Tiger | Amit Samarth | ||
| RQ - 022 | Imperial | Zaara Syed | ||
| RQ - 023 | Giant Starkenn Bikes & Acg Pharma | Vitthal Bhosale | ||
| RQ - 024 | Sangamner Warrior | Vijay Kale | ||
| RQ - 025 | Team Manipal Hospitals | Sundaram Narayanan | ||
| RQ - 026 | Siddhartha Gadekar | |||
| RQ - 027 | Paso | Shunmuganathan A | ||
| RQ - 028 | KRU CYCLING INDIA | Shreyas K Gowda | ||
| RQ - 029 | The Hillipedes | Samim Rizvi | ||
| RQ - 030 | Team Z Plus | Rahul Zanjurne | ||
| RQ - 031 | Preet Singh | Preet Singh | ||
| RQ - 032 | Gabrus | Omkar Kesarkar | ||
| RQ - 033 | Aradgaon Champs | Nitin Bhoite | ||
| RQ - 034 | Nilesh Jadhav | |||
| RQ - 035 | Team Saavaj | Nevilkumar Godhani | ||
| RQ - 036 | Hiren Patel | |||
| RQ - 037 | Nashik Cyclist | Milind Walekar | ||
| RQ - 038 | Avangers | Kabir Rachure | ||
| RQ - 039 | Ila Patil | |||
| RQ - 040 | Devvrat | |||
| RQ - 041 | Legal Eagle | Dattatray Chakor | ||
| RQ - 042 | Wind Riders | Chetan Agnihotri | ||
| RQ - 043 | RLP | Anupam Khanduja | ||
| RQ - 044 | Anil Kahar | |||
| RQ - 045 | Wellness Academy Of India | Anand Patil | ||
| RQ - 046 | Kalpataru | Anand Gangurde | ||
| RQ - 047 | Amey Katurde | |||
| RQ - 048 | New Racers Club | Akshay Chougale | ||
| RQ - 049 | Team Pannu | Bharat Pannu | ||
| RQ - 050 | Baban Dolas | |||
| RQ - 051 | Durgaprasad Pawar | |||
| RQ - 052 | Hitendra Mahajan | |||
| RQ - 053 | Karthik Padmanabhan | |||
| RQ - 054 | Kunal Gupte | |||
| RQ - 055 | Mahendra Mahajan | |||
| RQ - 056 | Mukund Thakkar | |||
| RQ - 057 | Prakash Dubepatil | |||
| RQ - 058 | Prashant Tidke | |||
| RQ - 059 | Rajanikant Yadav | |||
| RQ - 060 | S. Karthikeyan | |||
| RQ - 061 | Yogesh Tiwari | |||
| RQ - 062 | Arun Thipsay | |||
| RQ - 063 | Avinash Phadnis | |||
| RQ - 064 | Team JASPAL | Mohindersingh bharaj | ||
| RQ - 065 | Singal Strength | Ravinder Singal | ||
| RQ - 066 | Team 'Tanishq Holidays' | Suniel Ghagare | ||
| RQ - 067 | Team ACAB | Yagnesh Ahir | ||
| RQ - 068 | Team ACAB | Kartik Kansara | ||
| RQ - 069 | DREAMING PEDALS | Neeraj Vishwakarma | ||
| RQ - 070 | WE R Cycling | DHANRAJ KARKERA | ||
| RQ - 071 | Vasanth Manivannan | |||
| RQ - 072 | PK Racing | Premnath Kasinath | ||
| RQ - 073 | Kartik Mistry | |||
| RQ - 074 | Deep Udeshi | |||
| RQ - 075 | Team Nagpur | Vikas Patra | ||
| RQ - 076 | Dabang Oranges solo | Shubham Das | ||
| RQ - 077 | Domane | Satish Sharma | ||
| RQ - 078 | Vivek Lokur | |||
| RQ - 079 | WSSM | Satyasheel Shrotri | ||
| RQ - 080 | Krishna Prakash | |||
| RQ - 081 | Track and Trail | Sanjay Mokal | ||
| RQ - 082 | #Jakishura | Shubham Deore | ||
| RQ - 083 | ACA Cycling Team | Tushar Bhoite | ||
| RQ - 084 | SiBridge | Parth Raichura | ||
| RQ - 085 | Koken Uzuntas | |||
| RQ - 086 | Team Chamundi | Naveen Solanki | ||
| RQ - 087 | Vishal Ahlawat | |||
| RQ - 088 | Team Axis | Aashish joshi | ||
| RQ - 089 | Mayank Tripathi | |||
| RQ - 090 | Cycleangelo & Co. | Sumit Dakhawe | ||
| RQ - 091 | TEAM ADESH-PEDAL DEMONS | Adesh Kale | ||
| RQ - 092 | TEAM DHANRAJ-PEDAL DEMONS | Dhanraj Helambe | ||
| RQ - 093 | beauty on wheels | Hitisha Mehta | ||
| RQ - 094 | Team Yashraj | Chandrakant Harpale | ||
| RQ - 095 | Pushers | Noel Fonseca | ||
| RQ - 096 | Evolution | Inderjitsingh Khamba | ||
| RQ - 097 | Team Bhamre | Siddarth Bhamre | ||
| RQ - 098 | Solonie | Solonie Pathania | ||
| RQ - 099 | MAVERICK - TWO WHEEL THRILL | Anand Mundhada | ||
| RQ - 100 | Trivolution | Abhishek Avhad | ||
| RQ - 101 | JYOTI | JYOTI DIWANI | ||
| RQ - 102 | Team Deepanti | Deepanti | ||
| RQ - 103 | Team AKS | Akshay Deshpande | ||
| RQ - 104 | Ramalingam Rajipillai | |||
| RQ - 105 | Team Kirit | Kirit Kokje | ||
| RQ - 106 | Young Seniors_Tiger | Vijay Hinge | ||
| RQ - 107 | Runsters | Ashwin Govindasamy | ||
| RQ - 108 | BMW | Balasaheb Wakchaure | ||
| RQ - 109 | CLUB Z | ANIKET ZAWAR | ||
| RQ - 110 | Vijay@24 | Vijay Sanap | ||
| RQ - 111 | Akash Mallick | Akash Mallick | ||
| RQ - 112 | MAULI | DNYANESHWAR GHUGE | ||
| RQ - 113 | TEAM GLOBAL EYE | NILESH CHAKNE | ||
| RQ - 114 | Khandesh Eagle | Swapnil Marathe | ||
| RQ - 115 | Khandesh Eagle | Rahul Patil | ||
| RQ - 116 | TEAM WHEELSPORTS | VENKATESH SHIVARAMA | ||
| RQ - 117 | PAVAN CHANDAK | |||
| RQ - 118 | Manoj | Manoj Soni | ||
| RQ - 119 | Rebuild Yourself | Ajit Kumar | ||
| RQ - 120 | Sabkeliye | Vineet Saraiwala | ||
| RQ - 121 | Sabkeliye | Sudeb Roy | ||
| RQ - 122 | કર્ણાવતી | Vivek Shah | ||
| RQ - 123 | Lanza_Boy | Sunny Ferns | ||
| RQ - 124 | TERRAFIT | Rajlaxmi Teli | ||
| RQ - 125 | WSSM | Nikhilesh Kale | ||
| RQ - 126 | Team Tri-Addict | Anmol Prabhu | ||
| RQ - 127 | AERO-ONE | ALIASGAR PATRAWALA | ||
| RQ - 128 | TEAM DEVA (D,C) | DEVANAND BHIMARAO MESHRAM | ||
| RQ - 129 | Parli Cycling Club | Suhas Bade | ||
| RQ - 130 | Team Vincent James | Vincent Godai | ||
| RQ - 131 | Team GoMissing | Saurabh Kapur | ||
| RQ - 132 | Team Jadhav | Dashrath Dinkar jadhav | ||
| RQ - 133 | SWAT Team India | Swati Sablok | ||
| RQ - 134 | TEAM RSS | Sushant Bodas | ||
| RQ - 135 | Team Atul Mishra | ATUL KUMAR MISHRA | ||
| RQ - 136 | Team Power Peaks | Priyanka Pawar | ||
| RQ - 137 | TEAM HERCULES | YOGESH GAIKWAD | ||
| RQ - 138 | TEAM HORIZON | SUHAS LONDHE | ||
| RQ - 139 | Brahmastra | Shine Koyyakande | ||
| RQ - 140 | Pedalling Demons | Kapil Sharma | ||
| RQ - 141 | TerraFit Pedaler | Neha Tikam | ||
| RQ - 142 | Team Chai | Parth Lalai | ||
| RQ - 143 | Team Amdavad Crankmeisters | KISHAN PKV | ||
| RQ - 144 | Team GAS | Abhishek Bhagwat | ||
| RQ - 145 | Team Varun Dhiman | VARUN DHIMAN | ||
| RQ - 146 | PEDAL TO GO | GOVIND SURYKANT RANGWAL | ||
| RQ - 147 | Team Sasi | Sasikanth P V R | ||
| II - 148 | Paravur Bikers Club | Galin Abraham | ||
| II - 149 | Sundar Moorthy | |||
| II - 150 | Paravur Bikers Club | REGHURAM R | ||
| II - 151 | CCT | Nadeer Mayyeri | ||
| II - 152 | Bharat Bandhu | |||
| RQ - 153 | ITF | Krishna Parawada | ||
| II - 154 | Mayhem | Vishal Sharma | ||
| RQ - 155 | Team Gear N Beer | Kaustubh Dandekar | ||
| RQ - 156 | Team Pratik Ramdharne | Pratik Ramdharne | ||
| RQ - 157 | Bengaluru Cycling Club | Raghu Reddy | ||
| RQ - 158 | Bengaluru Cycling Club | Nandan Reddy | ||
| RQ - 159 | Bengaluru Cycling Club | Rajaneesh K N | ||
| RQ - 160 | Dwayne Pereira | |||
| II - 161 | Team Maverick | Rajanikant Yadav | ||
| II - 162 | Team 152 | Manu Chacko | ||
| II - 163 | Endurance Seeker | Vibhav Shinde | ||
| II - 164 | Psyclopath | Himanshu Thuse | ||
| II - 165 | Mathew Tom | |||
| II - 166 | Toshesh Daulta | |||
| II - 167 | Grinshina Kartik |