Indian racing ace Karun Chandhok will be driving his first GP2 races of the year in Bahrain this coming weekend. The Chennai born driver is backed by Punj Lloyd, JK Tyre and Amaron and will be driving for Ocean Racing Technology in the final round of the GP2 Asia series.

The races in Bahrain will be supporting the Formula 1 World Championship. ORT, who are owned by former F1 driver Tiago Monteiro, will also be running Karun in the main GP2 series which kicks off in Barcelona on the 9th of May.

After spending the last few weekends behind the microphone sharing his comments with viewers on Star Sport’s coverage of Formula 1, Chandhok is looking forward to getting back behind the wheel : “It’s been nearly 7 months since the last GP2 race of 2008 so I’m really looking forward to this weekend. While the GP2 European series is the most important program, Tiago and I both felt it would be useful to do a weekend of the Asian series together as a pre-cursor to the main series. ORT are a new team and it will be the first time I’ll be working with the engineers and mechanics on a race weekend so it will be a good test for us to understand each other’s working practices.”

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Chennai, 22nd April 2009

The Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI), the National Sports Federation for the promotion and governance of motorsports in India announced its calendar for the 4 wheeler Indian National Rally Championship recently. The FMSCI, in its release today said that it has finalized the Indian National Road Racing Championship 2009 for 2 wheelers. The National Championship is promoted by Meco Motorsports Private Limited, Chennai. The National Championship is title sponsored by Rolon, co-sponsored by Amaron with single make support races by Honda and Championship Awards by TVS Motors Ltd. The Championship rounds will be organized by Meco Motorsports & Madras Motor Sports Club. The Championship consists of 5 rounds at the two purpose built racing tracks in the country in Coimbatore & Chennai.

Calendar

Round 1 : Coimbatore : June 6th 7th
Round 2 : Coimbatore : July 11,12
Round 3 : Coimbatore : August 22, 23

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Chennai, April 22, 2009

Despite lack of sponsorship and no financial support India’s top most international bike racer and Chennai lad Dilip Rogger has not let it affect his passion for the sport. With already several achievements to his credit Dilip is on verge of adding yet another feather to his crown by becoming the first Indian as well as the first Asian to compete in Boerdesprint 2009 which happens to be the German National Racing Championship. The event is part of a German Endurance Cup format in which different classes are run, mainly split up between SuperSport 600s and Superstock/Superbike. Dilip has been invited to participate in two rounds of the eight round championship races. He will be racing on a RC8R 1190 cc version of the LC8.

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