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RPPL to Debut Indian Racing Festival

The festival will feature FIA-certified Formula 4 and Formula Regional Indian Championship from November to December 2022

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Indian motorsports company, Racing Promotions Private Limited. (RPPL) has announced the debut edition of the Indian Racing Festival. The festival which will in multiple franchise into the format on weekends at multiple cities.. The festival will begin from the weekend of November 11th and run every weekend until the weekend of December 10th across multi-city locations including the former F1 track at Buddh International Circuit (BIC) Greater Noida, the debut of 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.

Akhilesh Reddy, Director MEIL and Chairman, RPPL (Racing Promotions Private Limited), says, “Our ambition for the Indian Racing Festival is to put India back on the map of motorsports and to provide opportunities for 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 Ebrahim in 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 the 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 Regional and 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 plans to promote the Indian Racing Festival at these 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.

Here is the schedule for Indian Racing Festival:

 Race

 Date

 Venue

Formula Regional + F4 Indian + IRL (pre-season testing)

8 - 10 November

BIC Greater Noida


Formula Regional + F4 Indian + Indian Racing League

11 - 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



 




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