We celebrate out first anniversary of bringing you the best of motorsporting eventswith this issue. Our cover story details how Suresh Rana won his fifth Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm. Relive the Dakar rally where Peugeot and KTM won yet again. Also the national bike racing championship comes to an end. 


Sand Blasting: Tougher stages make for an interesting rally raid in the Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm

Done and Dusted: Another win for Stephane ‘Mr Dakar’Peterhansel at the toughest rally in the world

The Final Sunday: The MMSC 2W NRC comes to an end as TVS Racing emerges as top dog yet again

A Polo Champion: KarnaKadur helps the VW Polo achieve the overall INRC crown

Keeping It Simple: The autocross championship gets done with its southern rounds

Ready for Truckin’?: Gear up for the fourth season of the Tata Prima T1 Truck racing

MRF Challenge: Harrison Newey wins the title in the final race of the season

MRF F1600: The MMSC national championship begins with the completion of two rounds

Vento Cup Support Race: Karminder Pal Singh earns a fully paid drive for the 2017 Ameo Cup

Point Precision: KarthickMaruthi becomes the first Maruti Suzuki National Superleague TSD Rally Championship

WRC: All the happenings from the first two rounds of rallying as Ogierwins yet again

Winning a Formula 1 championship is no child’s play. Ask NicoRosberg who triumphed over Lewis Hamilton in 2016 but was so drained out at the end of the season that he decided to hang his boots. When Michael Schumacher added seven titles under his belt, nobody expected any other Formula 1 driver to even come close. But Hamilton, with his consistency and never-say-die attitude feels invincible today and probably will surpass Schumacher’s record of being the most successful Formula 1 driver ever. What makes him hungry for success at this age? We delve deep into the Brit’s success story and peel of layers to find out what the champ is actually made of in Motor Sport India’s cover story this month. 

There’s lot more local and international action headed your way:

JK Tyre Festival of Speed
The Buddh International Circuit finally gets a spectacle it always deserved in the form of JK Tyre Festival of Speed. Close-quarter racing, mind-boggling stunts, supercar and superbike parades; it’s all covered

Gaurav Gill speaks up
Arjuna awardee and multiple-time national rally champ Gaurav Gill speaks up about the crash in Jodhpur and the intense stir of emotions and consequences that came along with it

Red Bull Ace of Dirt
C S Santosh’s idea of giving back to the community, the Red Bull Ace of Dirt event put the best novice off-roaders country against each other in an enduro race! The prize you ask? Training under the champ himself

INRC 2019
ChetanShivram’s maiden win sees the rise of a new era in INRC meanwhile Gaurav Gill continues with his exhilarating form winning the Popular Rally for the fifth time

Royal Enfield FT 411
If Harley-Davidson develops a flat-tracker, would Royal Enfield stay behind? We dig the underpinnings of the FT 411 – Royal Enfield’s in-house flat-tracker, based on the big and bulky Himalayan

The latest issue of Motor Sport India magazine gives you all the insight needed on making a career in professional bike racing. Our Bike Racing 101 section is a step-by-step guide to fuel your passion for racing on two wheels, with the best two-wheel racing and rallying talent sharing their experiences and views.
Our resident track junkie Alameen Merchant hits the track yet again – this time astride the TVS 310RR Cup OMC, as a part of the Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship 2019.
We also got Dakar veteran C S Santosh to share his insights on the importance of getting into a factory racing/rallying team. “If it wasn't for TVS and my 11 years with them, I would not be here for sure”, says CS. Aravind KP on the other hand, talks about fitness while Aishwarya Pissay chats about women in motorsport.
Also featured is the story of Karun Chandhok; one of only two Indians in Formula 1 and the only one to race Le Mans! – His journey from racing saloon cars in Chennai to having the National Anthem played at a Formula 1 weekend and now working the microphone in the F1 pitlane.
Race Concept’s boss, Joel Joseph talks us through the third-gen Honda City i-VTEC, rally prepped for the Coimbatore rally. Enthusiasts called the L15 motor very unconventional for rallying and racing. Joel thinks otherwise.
“The plan was to take one step at a time and it almost paid off” – Gaurav Gill kickstarts his WRC2 Campaign with the Turkish rally, his first WRC rally with JK Tyre Motorsport and also as a registered driver eligible for championship points. Idemitsu Honda Ten10 Racing’s Sarath Kumar climbs to the top of the leader board at the INMRC, outpacing TVS Racing’s Jagan and his teammate Rajiv Sethu for the 2019 title.
All this and lots more in the latest issue of Motorsport India Magazine.
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This issue of Motor Sport India is headlined by insights on the Indian motorsport season’s biggest switch: Gaurav Gill parting ways with MRF and jumping ship to JK.The multiple national rally champion also talks about ‘Chapter 2’ of his career and his WRC aspirations.The JK-backed rally star also gets a new set of wheels for the championship – an R2-spec rally iteration of Mahindra’s first compactSUV prepared by Arka Motorsports for Team Mahindra Adventure – the Super XUV300.
“Dakar is still my goal”,says India’s top privateer on two-wheels Ashish Raorane, as he talks about what got him into cross-country rallying. Also featured are the turbocharged Honda City VTECs built for the road by renowned tuning house Race Concepts.
The new TC4 regulations in the Indian Touring Car series have sparked a revolution – “A proper race car, this.”  Our track test of the Volkswagen Vento ITC race car sheds light on the quality of wrench time and parts that have gone into making the best rival for Race Concept’s Honda City VTEC ITC race car yet. As for rallying, “We want to try and get the highest number of entries this year”, is what Vamsi Merla (director of Champions Yacht Club, the new series promoter) said and then went on to get a record 55 entries for the first round of the INRC in Chennai. 
On the two-wheel front – Honda’s Moto3-spec NSF250R makes its debut at the second round of the Indian Motorcycle Racing Championship. Idemitsu Honda Ten10 Racing’s Rajiv Sethu is back from his ARRC campaign for a domestic duel with TVS Racing’s Jagan Kumar, the reigning champ at the national motorcycle racing championship. 
All this and a whole lot more!
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Racing season is right around the corner and this month we get up-close with India’s first ever Formula 1 driver and go back in time to the good ol’ karting days with JK Tyre Motorsport. Our cover story highlights the fast-paced life of Coimbatore’s Narain Karthikeyan, to find out if he’s still got the go-faster urge in him and to know what he has been racing ever since F1. We also get under the skin of the Nakajima Racing Honda NSX-GT that Narain pilots in Japan’s premiere racing series, the Super GT. With JK Tyre having overhauled the National Karting series, it seemed a good idea to look back at the karting yesteryears: in a conversation with the JK Tyre Motorsport boss, Sanjay Sharma.
Ed gets in touch with India’s race entrepreneurs, Armaan Ebrahim and Aditya Patel on kickstarting the most awaited X1 Racing league, its drivers, the funding, its future and the race car! Next up, we chart out Volkswagen Motorsport India’s cup car evolution tree and also speak to Ramji Govindarajan, the man behind the Ten10 Racing Academy. “We are front ending the talent hunt, right from the shortlisting to selection and training at Ten10 Racing Academy”
An exclusive tete-a-tete with Gautam Singhania, India’s representive at the FIA on “promoting the motorsport culture rather than just focusing on producing one Indian F1 driver”
Also inside are the race reports from all the motorsport events having taken place in India, right from karting to formula racing, rallies and motorcycles racing.  

We kick off the 2019 motorsport season with a big exclusive! Team JK Tyre is back in Indian Rallying and they’re evaluating whether to start off with R2 or R5-spec cars and we have all the inside details straight from JK Tyre’s motorsport head. To go with our Rally Special, which is the first motorsport issue of 2019, we take a look back at JK’s rallying history, recounted by one of the fastest drivers of his era, the original Flying Sikh, Hari Singh. We also share the experiences of the two veterans who drove the Polo R2 in last year’s INRC. Our ed too narrates his first-hand account of finishing second in the INRC 1 category at the Popular Rally at the wheel of the Polo R2.
Our editors spoke to the Champions Group, the new promoters of the INRC, “We want to promote young drivers, lady drivers and send Indians to foreign championships”; the new FMSCI president outlines his plans for 2019, “Strengthen the administrative side”; we have an exclusive conversation with Gaurav Gill on his year in the WRC2. “I had the pace to stay at the front”; CS Santosh opens up for the first time on his Dakar-ending crash and his focus for 2019, “Speed is my only pursuit”; “It’s all about having confidence in your road book” says Aravind KP, the only second Indian to complete the Dakar Rally; and that’s just the section on rallying, not to forget the reports on the 2019 Monte Carlo and Sweden rallies.
We also welcome brand new columnists to the magazine. Internationally acclaimed Formula 1 commentator, Karun Chandhok is now joined by Dakar hero C S Santosh, former racing and karting champion Rayomand Banajee and more.
Finally, a message from the president of the FMSCI. “Do subscribe to Motor Sport India magazine, do support Indian motorsport, and do get engaged with the content and events”.
Subscriptions are now live for the new look Motor Sport India magazine and you also stand a chance to win an exquisite OMOLOGATO Monza watch.

You heard it here first! Gaurav Gill will become the first Indian to drive in WRC as he debuts in the WRC2 class with the Ford Fiesta R5for Team MRF. As if that wasn’t electrifying enough, we have the full dope on the next gen electric racer that Mahindra Racing will use in Formula E. While the world races to meet the challenges of shrinking resources and a galvanising green brigade, we get you the ringside report from the more-challenging-than-ever Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm.
GILL GOES TO WRC
India's finest rally driver finally gets his big break into premier class rallying
TATA’S JTP EDITION CARS
The first performance division for an Indian automotive manufacturer puts its learnings from motorsport to production ready cars
TRIUMPH GEARS UP FOR MOTO2
Experience the race-ready technology that will make its racing debut in the 2019 season
2018 MARUTI SUZUKI DESERT STORM
New faces burst on to the scene as Aabhishek Mishra and Aaron Mare emerge victorious
MRF CHALLENGE WRAP-UP
A low down of the entire season of the international winter racing series
2018 MMSC NRC ROUND 1
The national car racing season gets underway at the MMRT
AUTOPRIX SEASON WRAP-UP
Crowning of the inaugural champion of the budding series
MAHINDRA BAJA SAEINDIA
The fastest collegiate buggies slug it out yet again
MMRT UPGRADES
From India’s grand old race track to a brand new circuit – the transformation story
VW AMEO CUP MEDIA RACE
We enjoy our time spent in VW's state-of-the-art one-make race car
FORMULA E GEN 2 CAR
Take a look at the next generation of electric racers
MAHINDRA IN FORMULA E
Mahindra Racing slip down to third position after a rocky patch of luck

The 40th edition of the legendary Dakar event draws to a close with Carlos Sainz and Matthias Walkner winning on four and two wheels. Our boys from Sherco-TVS and Hero too produced stellar results as Hero’s Oriol Mena broke into the top ten on his maiden attempt. C S Santosh’s arduous outing was shaky but he still managed to bag his best result at the event as he finished 35th overall. We got all that plus the championship wrap-ups from the APRC, INRC and the JK Tyre NRC and much more.
DAKAR 2018
It is not over till it is over in the gruelling rally
INDIA AT DAKAR
A look at how our boys fared at the legendary event
APRC SEASON Wrap-up
Gaurav Gill wins his third APRC title after a mega showdown in Chikmagalur
INRC SEASON WRAP-UP
All the drama and the happenings from this year's national rallying scenes
AUTOPRIX SEASON 1
The grassroots level racing series heads into its final couple of rounds
2017 JK TYRE NRC
Anindith Reddy successfully defends his Euro JK championship at the final round at the BIC
INTERVIEW: RUHAN ALVA
India's karting sensation talks to us about his 2017 season in the Italian karting series andwhat his aims are for 2018
IN THEIR BLOOD
A look at the fast and talented Maini brothers onhow they went about their racing in India andtheir Formula 1 aspirations
EVOLUTION OF THE SPECIES
Here's how VW Motorsport India's racing one-makeseries cars have evolved over the years
MAHINDRA IN FORMULA E
Two wins and a podium in three races helpsMahindra lead the electric racing championship
SADDLE UP!
Here's how we would like the 2018 MotoGPseason to pan out
LET BATTLE COMMENCE
What to expect from the upcoming season of international rallying


With the international season drawing to a close, we bring you a round-up of everything that happened over the last year. There is plenty of rally action, right from the Raid, to Oilibya and even the national championhip in this issue. This issue has a brief on all the motorsport action from India in the last two months, along with some insightful interviews and plenty of race experiences to get your pulses racing. Here is what you can find inside:
Karting gives you wings: A round-up of the annual Red Bull Kart Fight for amateurs.
Gymkhana madness: Two Indian Autocross stars head try their hand at a Gymkhana competition.
AutoPrix updates: A review of the second round of the Autocross championship in Delhi.
2017 Oilibya: Hero and Sherco-TVS finish strongly at the rally in Morocco.
More rally: All the updates from the 2017 2W national rally championship.
Getting high: All the action from the Maruti Suzuki Raid-de-Himalaya.
The Boys are Back: An insight in to how  theSherco TVS team is preparing for the Dakar.
One make racers: Our correspondents race in the Honda and TVS one make races, and compare notes.
Rally School:  Getting schooled in the art of rallying by ace driver Gaurav Gill.
Ameo Cup: An entire race weekend behind the wheel of the Ameo Cup car.
Hero Talks: Chatting with Dakar Hero C S Santosh on Twitter.
Mahindra in Moto3: A look back at all Mahindra has achieved in Moto3 as they bid the sport goodbye.
International round up: A recap of the MotoGP, Formula 1 and WRC seasons, where new champions have been crowned.
We also talk to Markus Braunsperger about Hero’s road to the Dakar, and racers Aditya Patel, ArmaanEbrahim and Anindith Reddy about their seasons so far.

This issue India’s only motorsport magazine gets exclusive access to the driver’s seat of Williams’ F1 car as our man and ex-F1 driver Karun Chandhok takes it out for a spin. We also catch up with JehanDaruvala and ArjunMaini to see what their prospects are. We also take a close look at Mahindra Racing’s Formula E efforts. All that, and much more.
EXCLUSIVE TEST: 2017 Williams FW40 – Our F1 insider Karun Chandhok gets to drive the team’s current contender
2017 MARUTI SUZUKI DAKSHIN DARE – Team Maruti’s Suresh Rana bags his second title in a row
2017 JK NRC – Three rounds of intense action makes for an exciting finale
2017 MMSC NRC – The national championship for cars draws to a close with new faces crowned champion
2017 2W MMSC RACING – TVS Racing walk home national champions once again, courtesy star rider Jagan Kumar. Despite tough competition from Honda
ASIA ROAD RACING CHAMPIONSHIP – The best motorcycle racers in Asia go head to head at the MMRT
INRC ROUND 3 – GauravGill remains triumphant in Jaipur
GULF MONSOON SCOOTER AUTOCROSS – Bhopal hosts inaugural scooter autocross
IN CONVERSATION WITH ARJUN MAINI – Maini shares his thoughts on the current GP3 season and on bagging the Haas role
THE PRODIGAL SON – JehanDaruvala’s career graph reaches a new high after a Euro F3 race win
FORD TRACK ATTACK – In the third of this series, we took a Ford Figo S to decoding the secrets of the Buddh International Circuit
AUTOCROSS READY ZEN – We drive the scariest Zen that has been built yet
BAJA CHAMPION – India’s lightest and fastest collegiate buggy driven
FORMULA E – Mahindra Racing’s stellar season in the electric series recapped

The battle continues between Hero and TVS Racing as they lock horns first at the India Baja and the Merzouga rally, both prepping up to get ready for the 2018 Dakar. Also looking at the future of racing and how Mahindra is shaping up to be big dogs in the electric business.And more in this issue of Motor Sport India

THE FUTURE, TODAY: GulPanag relates her experience of driving Mahindra’s future racer – the M4Electro

ELECTRICAL EXHILARATION: A look at Mahindra Racing’s achievements in the current season of Formule e

CLASH OF TITANS: The Dakar Challenge heads to India and we get a new Indian Dakar hero

RUMBLING IN THE DESERT: Thar Motorsport hosts a unique TSD rally

AUTOCROSS CHAMPION: AmanpreetAhluwalia becomes India’s first national autocross champion

MOROCCAN MADNESS: The qualifiers for the 2018 Dakar went smoothly for both Hero as well as TVS

RACING GIANTS: Fourth successive season of the Tata T1 Prima races conclude

SIDEWAYS IN THE MOUNTAINS: We bring you all the dope from Arunachal’s annual speed fest

Zoom into 2017 with Motor Sport India and re-live the triumph of Gaurav Gill’s record-breaking APRC season. In the second part of our Ford Track Attack series, we lap the Kari Motor Speedway. Also catch up on all the happenings of the autocross championship among others


A New Champion: The JK NRC season comes to a close and a new champion has been crowned

India tops APRC: Gill wins the Indian round of the APRC bagging six out of six rallies in the 2016 APRC 

Ford Track Attack: We explore the history of the Kari Motor Speedway and lap it in the Ford Aspire

Affordable motorsport: The first round of the Autocross championship kicks off and we bring you all the action

MRF Challenge: With some of the top junior drivers participating, all the coverage from the MRF Challenge’s international rounds

Staying high: TVS racing stays on top in the MRF MoGrip National Supercross championship

One last drag: All the quarter mile action from the first two rounds of the national drag racing championship

Down memory lane: A look back at India’s first motoring event that took place in 1904

On the track: Experiencing the MMRT on a race-spec TVS Apache RTR

In Conversation: Speaking to Akbar Ebrahim, the FMSCI’s newly appointed president

F1 World Champion: A look back at Nico Rosberg’s career and the events that led to him becoming the World Champion

The top ten: Taking a look at the top ten riders of the last MotoGP season and why they’re there

The Asia Road Racing Championship was held for the first time in India at the BIC. We look at how it unfolded in the November-December 2016 issue of Motor Sport India. Also in are this year’s report of the Raid-de-Himalaya, the OiLibya rally where TVS and Hero went head to head for the first time internationally and the unravelling of MMRT’s secrets with Ford. We talk to Jehan Daruvala - Sahara Force India's prodigal son, Karun Chandhok shares his views on his life as a commentator, we report on the new generation of karting champions at the 2016 JK Tyre Rotax Max National championship and the 2016 Vento Cup. MRF MMSC 4W NRC goes to the wire, the happenings of this year’s Mughal rally, a look at Total’s contribution to motorsport and international race reports from F1 and MotoGP as well as updates on WRC.

Motor Sport India magazine is India’s only magazine on motorsport, published in association with the FMSCI. In the fourth edition we bring you detailed coverage of the toughest rally hosted in South India, the Maruti Suzuki Dakhin Dare. We also bring you detailed reports of all national championships in the country as well as what young Indians are up to abroad. 

Indian Racing Action:
Suresh Rana finally claims victory at the Dakshin Dare in his Grand Vitara; the national rallying championship kicks off in Coimbatore with the SuperXUVs dominating; the IndiKarting championship wraps up; the JK NRC’s first round is a success; MRF MMSC 2W and 4W racing championships; the Vento Cup and the Gulf Monsoon Rally — detailed reports inside.

Indians Abroad:
Updates on all our racers — Armaan Ebrahim, the Maini brothers, Aravind KP, Gaurav Gill, Jagan and Jehan Daruvala.

Crafting Motorsport:
Finding out more about Shrikant Karani and Sportscraft, the club which has organised the most number of motorsport events in India.

Track Time:
Riding a race-prepped Gixxer at the Kari Motor Speedway.

International:
All the action from Formula 1, MotoGP including Mahindra Racing’s exploits, WRC and WSBK.

MOTOR SPORT INDIA - July-Aug 2016

Motor Sport India magazine is the country’s only magazine on motorsport and is published in association with the FMSCI, the official governing and sanctioning body for Indian motorsport. 

In the 3rd edition of the magazine we look at Hero MotoSport’s mega Dakar rally plans, take part in the Deccan Rally and the Honda one-make races, preview the Raid-de-Himalaya and have a full round-up of all the motorsport action from India and across the world.

Motor Sport India is a bi-monthly magazine distributed free with evo India and also available as a stand-alone print and/or digital magazine.

Dakar Hero - Hero MotoCorp is getting serious about motorsport and have launched a full-fledged campaign on the 2017 Dakar. We speak to Chariman, MD & CEO Pawan Munjal , CTO Markus Braunsperger, lead Indian rider C S Santosh and also look back at their first outing in the Merzouga rally

More on the Dakar - Meanwhile TVS-Sherco have signed up Indian two-wheeler star K P Aravind for to take part in the 2017 Dakar

Columns - FMSCI President Zayn Khan answers your queries while in the third part on his motorsport icons series Karun Chandhok lists out his top ten racing personalities

Indian racing action - Reports from all the Indian races including Rotax karting, Indikarting, 2W rallying, 2W racing, Bangalore drag races, Deccan rally and previewing the Raid-de-Himalaya 

Indians abroad - Looking back on Gaurav Gill’s victory at the opening round of the APRC in New Zealand, Armaan Ebrahim’s podiums in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia races, Aditya Patel’s strong showing in the R8 LMS Asia Cup and more

Experiences - Our team has taken part in the Deccan Rally as well as attended the Ten10 Racing Academy prior to participating in the Honda one-make races at the MMRT

International - All the action from F1, Moto GP, WRC, Indy 500, Nurburgring 24 Hours, Isle of Man TT and more

Our high-octane second issue gives you detailed analysis on our two major cover stories - the Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm and the record run in four Tata cars at the VRDE test track in Ahmednagar. Both grueling events of different kinds.

NEWS – Motorsport’s latest. You can’t miss these updates, from India’s new rally promoter to the national championships’ dates. There’s a lot more from track to rally and everything in between.

RACE Reports – Who won the MMSC NRC Round 2 in Chennai and how the Tata T1 Prima Truck Race at the BIC panned out; What happened at this year’s Arunachal Festival of Speed, the fastest sprinters at the Valley Run, the 2015 MMSC 2W Championship finale and this season’s first TSD Rally in Uttarakhand.

FEATURES – The Ed’s experiences at the 2016 California Superbike School

REGULAR – Karun Chandhok’s Top 10 racing/rallying cars, FMSCI’s President answers your questions

INTERVIEWS – We chat up with rally champ Gaurav Gill and trials legend Dougie Lampkin

INTERNATIONAL – F1 race reports from Melbourne, Bahrain and Shanghai and MotoGP reports from Qatar, Argentina and Austin

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