About Us - Chennai Turbo Riders

It’s time to vroom

Motorsports showrun which saw over 20,000 people attend in live audience attracted a total of 5.7 million fans in attendance in 2022 over the 22 races.

According to a Nielsen survey in 2019, India was among the topfive countries by the number of fans (31.1m).

2019 versus last year 2022, the audiences at the track were up 36 %, which is a huge jump

India’s 1st street circuit night race!

Chennai’s first F4 & IRL night street circuit race was held on December 9 & 10.

Professional Racing Team with Namma Chennai based drivers & international drivers.

Steel stands were built at 11 locations with safety measures. Together they could hold 10,000 people.

Length

3.5 KM

Route

Start point - Island Grounds, Flag staff Road, Anna Salai, Sivananda Salai, Kamarajar Salai (Napier Bridge) & ends at Island grounds.

Season 1

(IRL)

The 2022 Indian Racing League was a single seater motor racing championship held across India. The series served as a revised reboot of the X1 Racing League and was originally planned to be run alongside the Formula Regional Indian Championship and F4 Indian Championship. These two championships were delayed to 2023, but the Indian Racing League still went ahead.

All drivers competed with single-seater Wolf GB08 Thunder cars, fitted with a 215 bhp (160 kW) Aprilia engine. The teams were based on Indian cities, like they were in the X1 Racing League.

The Chennai Turbo Riders car of Lancaster and Kumar then jumped the Kochi cars in the stop cycle and won the race, but were later demoted to fourth for the opening-lap contact.

championship standings

Indian Racing League debut season was held from 19th November – 11th December 2022. The series – which aims to establish itself as India’s premier championship – is promoted by RPPL and run with the support of Italian car manufacturer Wolf Racing. The cars employed was Wolf GB08 Thunder Prototypes, also used in the Italian Sport Prototype Championship

6 teams of Irl

Three races were held per round – two 20-minute sprint races and a 35-minute feature race. As there were two drivers per car, for Race 1 Driver A qualified and Driver B started and for Race 2 Driver B qualified and Driver A started. The feature race saw the grid determined by combined qualifying times, with both drivers competing by way of a mandatory driver change.

Season 1

(IRL)

Two Events had been Held

F4 Indian Championship

Indian Racing League

Round 1

(MIC) at Irungattukottai

4th & 5th November

Round 4

Island Grounds at night

R4 (IRL+F4) 8-10 Dec

Round 2,3,5

Madras Intl. Circuit

R2 (IRL + F4) 1-2 Dec