India Mahindra Racing
Founded2014
Team principal(s)Mufaddal Choonia – CEO
Dilbagh Gill – Team Principal
Current seriesFIA Formula E
Current driversSweden Felix Rosenqvist
Germany Nick Heidfeld
Websitemahindraracing.com


Mahindra Racing is an Indian motorsport team owned by Indian automobile manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra. In 2014 Mahindra Racing became one of the founding ten – and the only Indian team – to compete in the FIA Formula E Championship.[1][2]

Overview edit

Mahindra Racing is the only Indian team to compete in the FIA Formula E Championship. They entered the Championship in the inaugural season of 2014-2015 as one of the ten founding teams in partnership with Carlin Motorsport[3].

From the second season, the team, together with Mahindra Electric, developed their own electric powertrain, the M2Electro. Campos Racing took over team operations/management[4] The M2Electro achived possitive results, with Nick Heidfeld scoring a third place podium in the opening round in Beijing. Bruno Senna had a second place podium finish in the first of the two season finale races which took place in London.

For Season 3, Mahindra has developed the new M3Electro which proved to be a competitive package netting nine podiums, two pole positions and two fastest lap awards. These results gave Mahindra Racing third place in the Teams’ Championship.

Results edit

Year Chassis Tyres No. Drivers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Points T.C.
2014–15 Spark-Renault SRT 01E M BEI PUT PDE BNA MIA LBH MON BER MSC LON 58 8th
5   Karun Chandhok 5 6 13 Ret 14 12 13 18 12 12 13
21   Bruno Senna Ret 14† 6 5 Ret 5 Ret 17 16 16 4
2015–16 Spark-Mahindra M2ELECTRO M BEI PUT PDE BNA MEX LBH PAR BER LON 105 5th
21   Bruno Senna 13 5 Ret 10 10 5 9 15 2 6
23   Nick Heidfeld 3 9 7 8 4 12 7 13 7
  Oliver Rowland 13
2016–17 Spark-Mahindra M3ELECTRO M HKG MAR BNA MEX MON PAR BER NYC MTR 215 3rd
19   Felix Rosenqvist 15 3 18 16 6 4 1 2 15 2 9 2
23   Nick Heidfeld 3 9 15 12 3 3 3 10 16 3 Ret 5
2017–18 Spark-Mahindra M4ELECTRO M HKG MAR SAN MEX PDE ROM PAR BER ZÜR NYC 90* 2nd*
19   Felix Rosenqvist 14 1 1 4 Ret
23   Nick Heidfeld 3 16 7 Ret Ret

* Season still in progress

References edit

  1. ^ "Mahindra, first Indian manufacturer to compete in FIM MotoGP". Business Standard. Business Standard Ltd. 21 January 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  2. ^ "About Mahindra Racing". Mahindra Racing. Mahindra & Mahindra. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  3. ^ Watkins, Gary (1 July 2014). "Super Nova to run TrulliGP Formula E team". Autosport. Haymarket Publications. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  4. ^ camposracing.com http://camposracing.com/formula-e/. Retrieved 2 December 2017. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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