Young racing prodigy Armaan Ebrahim set the Sepang track ablaze, finishing third during testing for A1 Team India in the third round of the A1GP at Sepang, Malaysia, in Sepang on Friday. The 19-year-old was excited to drive the Ferrari powered car and exuded confidence that India will be able to win the A1GP championship on Sunday.
Ferrari have signed a six-year deal to provide engines and design cars for the A1GP series from 2008.
A1 Team India stole the show at the final test session at Silverstone ahead the new A1GP World Cup.
After Formula One's expected high profile entry into the country, Indian motorsport fans may get the opportunity to have a glimpse of A1GP race by 2009.
A brand new engine hardly made a difference to A1 Team India's fortunes as Narain Karthikeyan qualified 14th for the Sprint race and 11th for the Feature race of A1GP Malaysia to be held on Sunday.
Force India test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi will race for Team Italy in the Portugal leg of the A1 GP World Cup of Motorsport over the Easter weekend. A1 Team Italy pulled off a coup of sorts by signing Liuzzi, who is itching to get back to racing again.
Having lost his status as Williams test driver after the Formula One team jettisoned him earlier this week, Karthikeyan took the circuit by storm and raced to the chequered flag, quelling late charge from New Zealand and South Africa.
The Indian set his two fastest laps of the weekend on his third and fourth laps at the Chinese A1 Grand Prix in Shanghai on Saturday.
Team India's Narain Karthikeyan finished second in the sprint race but had to pull out of the feature race following a crash and finished the A1GP World Cup of Motorsports in 12th position with 19 points, in Brands Hatch, Great Britain, on Sunday.
Karthikeyan put his knowledge of the Shanghai International Circuit to best use, giving Team India the fourth fastest time at the end of Friday's final practice session.
He miss the podium by three tenths of a second in what turned out to be Team India's best ever show in the spectacular season finale.
Recent media reports had speculated that all was not well with Team India and its further participation in the season was in doubt.
The Indian driver was forced to retire on the last lap of the A1 Grand Prix Feature Race in Shanghai.
Karun Chandhok driving for Team India had to retire in the 19th lap after his car stopped on the start-finish straight.
Narain Karthikeyan finished 11th in both the feature and sprint race as India returned empty-handed from the A1 Grand Prix race.
Narain Karthikeyan guided Team India to a ninth place finish in the Feature Race in the A1 Grand Prix in Mexico City.
Armaan Ebrahim collided with Pakistani driver Adam Khan in the Feature Race
Austria, Italy and Japan joined A1 Grand Prix completing the grid for the first race to be held this weekend.
With no real chance of an immediate return to Formula One's hallowed track in sight, Narain Karthikeyan has committed himself to A1 GP for the next season.
Reader Naresh Kumar sent us a picture of Arman Ibrahim from Sydney.
Narain Karthikeyan created history by winning the A1GP race at Zhuhai (China). His win made him the first Indian to ever win an A1GP race.
A1 GP chairman Tony Teixeira said on Wednesday he had scrapped plans to buy a Formula One team after the sport changed its rules to ban the use of so-called 'customer cars'.
Narain Karthikeyan will race for the team at Taupo, New Zealand, in the A1GP this weekend.
An Indian consortium has applied to buy BMW-Sauber, which is seeking new backers after German carmaker BMW said it was pulling out of Formula One at the end of the season, domestic media reported on Saturday. Reports said the deal is based around a 50 million euro investment and involved Swiss driver Neel Jani, who currently features in the A1 GP series and whose father is Indian.
A string of sports events were left feeling the shivers on Wednesday as the spectre of swine flu continued to spread fears globally, sparking a spate of cancellations and pull-outs. Motor racing, soccer, golf and elite-level diving were all impacted by the growing fears surrounding the H1N1 virus.
Narain Karthikeyan secured India's first ever pole position in the Feature race of A1GP, World Cup of Motorsport, after pipping host nation's Robbie Kerr in the qualifying session of the season-ending race at the Brands Hatch circuit on Saturday.
Germany's Nico Hulkenberg will be Williams' official test driver next season.
Narain Karthikeyan scorched the Brands Hatch circuit to win the Feature race and close the A1GP season on a high note as Team India secured its first ever top-10 finish in Brands Hatch on Sunday.
Parthiv Sureshwaren, who got an opportunity to drive for A1 Team India after Narain Karthikeyan suffered serious injuries during the practice session in Durban last month, seems so excited with the experience that he has carried it forward to round eight of the Championship to be held in Mexico City on Sunday.
Renault discard Giancarlo Fisichella and highly-rated German Adrian Sutil will lead the Force India F1 while another Italian Viantonio Liuzzi will be its another test driver.
Karun Chandhok believes both he and Narain Karthikeyan have taken different routes, which probably converge at Formula One.
Narain Karthikeyan confirmed that talks are on with Spyker, the Formula One team part-owned by Vijay Mallya.
Narain Karthikeyan will be unable to attend the A1 Grand Prix in Australia due to his F1 commitments.
The MAI has said that Karun Chandhok can procure his Indian license only next year.
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