New
Delhi, June 16, 2022.
Powered
by a vision to revive motor-sports in India, Indian motorsports company, Racing Promotions Pvt Ltd (RPPL)today announced
the debut of the Indian Racing Festival. The festival which will bring
in multiple franchise into the format will enthrall the audience on weekends in
multiple cities including all kinds of exciting racing tracks and even a street
circuit. The festival will begin from the weekend of November 11th and run every
weekend untilthe weekend of December 10thacross 5 weekends across
multi-city locations including the former F1 track at BIC Greater Noida, the
debut of the India’s first street track at Hyderabad, Coimbatore and MMRT
Chennai.
The
Indian Racing Festival RPPL will host 3 race events - Formula Regional Indian
championship, Formula 4 Indian Championship and the Indian Racing League. Formula
Regional Indian championship and the F4 Indian championships will be certified
by the FIA;championship winners will be awarded FIA Super License points. However,
these three championships are not the only ones on the horizon. RPPL has great
intentions to establish racing infrastructure and begin developing talent from
the ground up!
Details for
the racing events are mentioned below -
Races/Events |
Date |
Venue |
Formula Regional +
F4 Indian + IRL (pre-season testing) |
8th – 9th November |
BIC Greater Noida
|
Formula Regional +
F4 Indian + Indian Racing League |
10 - 13 November |
BIC Greater Noida
|
Formula Regional +
F4 Indian + Indian Racing League |
19 - 20 November |
Hyderabad
|
Formula Regional +
F4 Indian + Indian Racing League |
25 - 27 November |
Coimbatore
|
Formula Regional +
F4 Indian + Indian Racing League |
2- 4 December
|
MMRT - Chennai
|
Formula Regional +
F4 Indian + Indian Racing League |
10 - 11 December |
Hyderabad |
Akhilesh Reddy, Director
MEIL and Chairman, RPPL (Racing Promotions Pvt Ltd) says,“Our
ambition for theIndian Racing Festival is to put India back on the map of
motorsports and to provide opportunitiesfor young Indian racing drivers to take
up the sport more seriously by providing them with a platform to advance to the
top right in their own hometown. We are pleased to have drivers like Aditya
Patel and Armaan Ebrahimin our team to guide us, we are also planning to reach
out to various colleges as well to promote the sport.
Indian Racing Festival featuring
Formula Regional Indian championship, Formula 4 Indian Championship and the
Indian Racing League, will attract the international racing fraternity to India,
and subsequently, suppliers to the global auto-racing industry.Racing
Promotions' vision and initiatives in Formula Regionaland F4 are steppingstones
towards taking an all-Indian team to F1 in the next 5-7 years and an all-Indian
women's team to F2 in the next 10-12 years.”
The
representatives of Indian Racing Festival attended the UK based GB3, GB4 and
the British F4 championship and there are further plans to promote the Indian Racing
Festival at prominent motorsports events around the world including becoming
the first Indian registered company to exhibit at the mecca of motorsport-Goodwood
Festival of Speed event in the UK. The team will also be in attendance at
European events such as the Spanish F4, Formula Regional Europe championship by
Alpine, Italian F4, French F4, German F4, FIA CIK event and ACCR F4.
The
distinction of Indian racing will rise in the global rankings by holding not
one, but two FIA sanctioned championships, which will attract spectators and
contribute to economic success over the following 4-5 years.