Motorsport: Akhil Reddy wants an ecosystem in India that rivals Europe

AKHIL REDDY IS building a racing ecosystem in India that he believes will compete with Europe and change people's perception about motorsport in this country.

Speaking to India.com, he said,

"We are creating a ecosystem and coming down the line from six or seven years like how in any part of the world the game is happening and people have to run to the Europe because no other country has the ecosystem of motorsport. But I want to create motorsport ecosystem in six or seven years at least in the state, giving competition to Europe. I want to create the break event and my idea is to put one female driver in the Formula 2 by the year 8 and one driver in Formula 1 by year 9-10 and all the targets are long term which are quite realistic and practical."

The MD of Racing promotions Private Limited, who was behind the Indian Racing League's inaugural season, said that it was a wrong perception that many Indians had that it would be too expensive for kids to play competitive motorsport,

"When you want to buy a karting four stroke car, it comes around 75-80K INR and if you want to train yourself in the karting track we charge monthly around 50 to 70 thousand and along with this we are giving free internships for engineering Students.  So in general, the kids who are interested in automobile engineering will prefer to go in these type of things. Most of them go to London and pay around 20-25 pounds to learn things but I am giving them for free of cost."

The ecosystem, he is convinced, will help create a racing culture in India that will rival any other country on Earth, and make India a prominent name in the motorsports world.

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