COIAMBATORE, July 16: India’s upcoming racing sensation, 18-year-old Nayan Chatterjee has joined Meco Motorsports and will be under the tutelage of one of the country’s best motor racing mentors, Akbar Ebrahim.
Fresh from a win in Malaysia, the number two in Asia Max Championship, he plans to race in the Asian FIA formula 4 Championship in October and one of the European FIA Formula four Championships in February-March next year.
Nayan, here to race in the JK Tyre National Rotax Karting Championship, told reporters that his ambition was to become the best racer in the country.
He said his father could not achieve his ambition of becoming a racer due to financial constraints. Now his parents were supporting him to help him realise his dream.
Nayan has won the prestigious scholarship from BMW for three consectuvie years from 2014 worth Rs 32 lakh to drive their BMW FB 02 cars.
The teenager said that since motorsport was expensive, government should subsidise it.
Asked about joining Meco, he said his tryst with the team came just after stupendous success in KRS-KKS Asia Rotax Max challenge 2016 in Malaysia in April-May, when he finished second.
Winner of 28 national motorsport trophies in the last four years, Nayan, in his fifth year in competitive kart racing, says he is ready to make a mark on the international grid.
“Malaysia win was extremely satisfying. I’m all geared up now and the next three-year plan is to focus on Formula racing in Asia, Europe, GP3, Formula 3 or equivalent in Europe,” the Mumbai lad said. (PTI)
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