SPEED HUNTERS

Hunting for India’s fastest road, in India’s fastest cars

- SIRISH CHANDRAN

TRACK DAYS, LAP CHARTS, DRAGGY times, dyno pulls, a mad scramble for special edition Porsches and an Urus delivered every week — the sportscar and supercar scene has come a long way over the past decade or so. I should know. My first taste of a 911 was half an hour up and down the Worli Sea Face in Mumbai with the importer glued to the passenger seat. That’s it. “Now go pen eight pages,” said my then editor… and I ended up exceeding the word count and got an extra spread. We were starved of sportscars and we made biryani out of the few scraps handed down to us. Then came the R8 and things really started to get going. To be fair, AMG was around for longer, and my knuckles were still sore from the rap I’d got for destroying the SL 63’s rubber during an award’s jury round on the track. But it was Audi that really turned things around for sportscars and got the whole trackday culture going with their driving experiences. Plus they indulged us when we suggested (what were then!) crazy stories.