X1 Racing League from November 30, powered by JK Tyre
Six Team owners come on board for the league
including Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Narain Karthikeyan
OnePlus comes on board as
Title Sponsor of X1 Racing eSports Season 1, to kickstart in Mumbai on October
10, to take place across six cities
Mumbai, 9 October 2019: The X1
Racing League; a concept started by Indian racers Armaan Ebrahim and Aditya
Patel will hit circuits on November 30-December 1 in New Delhi and December 7-8
in Chennai. The league announced its six team owners and will be powered by JK
Tyres Motorsport.
“We
are excited to partner with extremely passionate team owners who have a
long-term vision to develop and build motorsports in India. We thank JK Tyre
for believing in us and coming on board as our Powered-By sponsor. Personally,
for Aditya and me, this is completing a full circle with them, and we thank
Sanjay Sharma for his enthusiastic support. We are excited to partner with
OnePlus – they are a global leader and have made pioneering advancements in
technology. With them as a Title Sponsor for X1 Racing eSports Season 1, we are
aiming to set the gold standard for the ecosystem in India and make motorsport
accessible to all. It is a huge opportunity for aspiring racers from India to
make their mark and all eyes from the racing community will be on the league
thereafter,” said Armaan Ebrahim at a press conference held in Mumbai on
Wednesday.
The franchise-based X1 Racing League will have six teams comprising of
four drivers and two cars in each team. Of the four drivers in each team there
will be one international male, one international female, one India
international and domestic racer. Each race will last for 30 minutes and will
have three unique team-based race formats per day. The X1
Racing League will follow the eSports competition and will take place at the
Buddh International Circuit in Delhi NCR and the Madras Motor Race Track in
Chennai.
“We
at JK Tyre have been nurturing and honing talents in the country for almost
over three decades now and seeing our boys Armaan and Aditya who started their
motorsport careers with us come up with this concept is so heartwarming. We are
happy to be associated with X1 Racing League which is an interesting new format
that brings international motorsport talent to interact with Indian talent in
this composition. It will appeal to a larger fan base and with the addition of
the eSports league, will make the sport more accessible." said Mr. Sanjay
Sharma, Head-Motorsport, JK Tyre.
The international male racers include former F1 Italian racer Tonio
Luizzi, Malaysian Alex Yoong, son of legendary Austrian F1 driver Niki Lauda –
Mathias, China’s Frankie Cheng and Englishmen Oliver James Webb and Freddie
Hunt, son of former F1 world champion, James Hunt. The international female
drivers are English racers Pippa Mann and Alice Powell, Switzerland’s Rahel
Frey, Denmark’s Michelle Gatting and Christina Neilsen and Polish racer Gosia
Rdest.
The
X1 Racing League teams will be representing six cities, franchise owners were
announced today. These included Chennai team to be owned by India’s first F1
driver and the fastest Indian in the world Narain Karthikeyan; Delhi team by
the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Saeed Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan;
Mumbai team by Roadway Solutions India Infra Ltd. promoter Ameet Ghadoke;
Hyderabad team by renowned industrialist Akhilesh Reddy and Ahmedabad by Pen
India Studios promoter Dhaval Gada. The sixth team ownership has been confirmed
and will also be announced shortly.
Adding to the innovation in the Indian realm of motorsports, OnePlus,
the global technology brand, has joined hands with X1 Racing team as the Title
Sponsors to launch the X1 Racing eSports Season 1, a digital simulator-based
racing competition with a prize pool of Rs.1.5 crore. The first-of-its-kind
eSports initiative in India will be organized between October 10, 2019 and
November 17, 2019 across all franchise cities. The eSports
competition will happen at the Phoenix Mall in Chennai, Mumbai and Pune, DLF
Mall in Delhi, Manjira Mall in Hyderabad, and One Forum Mall in Ahmedabad. It
will also take place in colleges across the country.
Further addressing the eSports initiative,
Vikas Agarwal, General Manager, OnePlus India, shared, “We are thrilled to be collaborating with X1 Racing eSports Season 1 in
this one-of-a-kind gaming initiative. OnePlus has been one of the pioneering technology
brands to invest in the gaming space and develop gaming-friendly features for
its users globally. We believe that there is a plethora of remarkable, yet
unexplored ideas for gaming enthusiasts in India. And with launching X1 eSports
initiative, we would be a step closer to unravelling these exciting, new
opportunities in the gaming space.”
Ravi
Krishnan, Non-executive Chairman X1 Racing feels that India is potentially a
big market for motorsports if curated in the right format. He said, “X1 is
creating, developing and commercializing a unique ecosystem for motorsports via
3 pillars – League, eSports and Speed Summit – to create a community that
includes the avid motorsports fan, the general sports and automobile
enthusiast, the youth of the nation, aspiring racers and previously untapped
consumers.”
Mohit
Burman, Vice Chairman of Dabur India and investor in X1 Racing, said, “I am
excited to back the young and dynamic X1 Racing founders. We are redefining and
reinventing motorsports, and this is poised to be a pioneering endeavor.”
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