There Has Been A Very Welcome Development In Indian Single-Seat Racing
autoX|September 2018

It’s no secret that there are things to be critical about in Indian motorsport, and that there are people with no desire to conceal those criticisms.

Vinayak Pande
There Has Been A Very Welcome Development In Indian Single-Seat Racing

More often than not positive aspects of Indian motorsport come to light when participants venture abroad to take on those from traditional motorsport hubs that produce very well-prepared machines and individuals.

But there’s one recent development that I am extremely happy to see in domestic motorsport, and it involves long-standing rivals – MRF Tyres and JK Tyre. Or rather those whom they claim to benefit – young racing drivers who want nothing more than to just race regardless of which tyre company’s sticker is on the side of their single-seat, open-wheel car. And it seems that discouraging young racing drivers from participating in a series sponsored by the other is something that JK Tyre and MRF seem to have done away with.

Through the national racing championships that they respectively back, MRF and JK have tried to carve out their independent identity in Indian motorsport.

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