Narain Karthikeyan Unplugged.

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Narain Karthikeyan might not be racing in F1 anymore, but he still is very popular in India, according to this article by Rediff.
He spoke about a lot of things, but his answer to the most important question, [...]

Narain still holding on to the F1 dream.

Narain seems to be in the news a lot these days, maybe that will convince Mallya to give him a shot. I know I can’t stop rooting for him.

For any racer, Formula One is a big thing and I am no exception. I have been working hard with the A1 team and thoroughly enjoying it [...]

Narain’s Macau SARS scare.

In the high profile game of F1, for that matter with any professional sport, its always WYSIWYG as far as the athelete goes, nothing more nothing less. Well unless they write a biography or if they are a party animal, who loves to go cross country skiing a week before the season starts (hint Ferrari’s [...]

Desi motorsport roundup.

Renault Roadshow in Delhi
With an amazing season coming to an end, the F1 circus, Renault in particular, took a detour to India before heading home.

The road show of the F1 team, sponsored by ING Vysya, will have a spectacular display of the 2007 Renault F1 cars driving down the Rajpath. The show will comprise [...]

Karthikeyan could be back - The F1 silly season has begun

I’m not sure on how people dig this stuff up, but someone decided to pick a quote from Mallyas statement from over a year ago and have figured that Karthikeyan could be back.

Force India boss Vijay Mallya has indicated that his Silverstone-based team will not be changing their line-up ahead of next season but [...]

Narain pushes, ends up at the lower end of the grid.

With A1GP visiting Taupo, the circuit where Narain and Team India scored their first points last year, Narain pushed hard, only to end up 19th for the Feature race and 20th for the Sprint race. The weekend has seen a lot of spins and the last corner of the circuit has been changed to provide [...]

Narain reiterates his F1 goal

Narain thanks his team from the podium. Image from A1GP.

With Narain driving his wheels off to fetch India its first win in the A1GP, the Indian media is abuzz with news about the Delhi GP and the ‘Fastest Indian’. The significance of this victory is far reaching. The Prime Minister of India, who is [...]

Narain Karthikeyan wins A1GP Feature race in China

Seconds ago, Narain Karthikeyan won the feature race in Zuhai China.
Having secured the best qualifying position ever in the A1 series for Team India, Narain Karthikeyan had something special under his sleeve. So I decided to watch the race online. Do not ask me why, but I caught only the last 15 laps of the [...]

Narain Karthikeyan finishes 6th in Sepang

After a disappointing qualifying session, ruined by an underpowered, overheating engine, a swap of the engine sensor, Narain qualified a disappointing 14th for the Sprint race and 11th for the feature race.
With dampened spirits and a new engine Team India took to the track for the sprint race finishing 11th, just outside the points. The [...]

Narain has an F1 seat for 2008.

Or so I predict.

Narain Karthikeyan sits in the pits at Zandvoort. Image from Team India’s new website.

The major motor racing season is drawing to a great end. Going into the last race of the season in F1, Kimi Raikonnen, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando “Whiner” Alonso are fighting for the title, the end [...]

Motorsports roundup

Formula 1 and Spyker are not the only ones to follow this weekend. Image from Jacobine
A lot is going on this week/ weekend motor sports and as usual Desi’s find themselves in the mix.

Spyker sold in principle to Mallya
First off Spyker have announced that they have sold the team in principle to [...]

Narain Karthikeyan and Team India set a new circuit record.

Narain Karthikeyan, Driving for Team India set the fastest time, breaking the circuit record at Silverstone. Image from A1GP.
On Sunday, Karun Chandok stood atop the podium in Spa, with India’s national anthem being played and this time around, Narain Karthikeyan broke the circuit record for A1GP cars are Silverstone, the first time India [...]

A1GP - Team India features new livery, ends test early

Team India moved away from the design based on the national flag to its sporting colors for the 2007-08 season. Image from A1GP.
With just a few hours to familiarize himself with the machinary, Narain Karthikeyan managed to finish 7th in his debut race for team in India, back in Jan, 2007. This time around, [...]

Narain’s signs on for another year of A1GP

Narain in the Team India car. Image from racingtiger.
After piloting the Team India A1GP car towards the fag end of last season, Narain has decided to sign up for a full year of racing. The team will be doing its pre-season testing at Silverstone on the 28th and 29th of this month.

Yohann [...]

Armaan Ebrahim to race in Formula Renault V6 Asia.

Armaan Ebrahim, talking to the press. Image courtesy Newstoday.net
Armaan Ebrahim, Team India’s Ex A1GP driver has signed up with TARADTM to race in the Forumla Renault Asia series.
Talking to the press Armaan said,
My aim is to finish in the top three as it will help get an entry into the World Series or Formula Atlantic. [...]

Narain finishes 4th in Brands Hatch

Narain in the Team India car in Brands Hatch. (Image from Tema India A1GP website.)
Narain Karthikeyan driving for Team India in the A1GP finished 4th in the Feature race.
The weekend started with Narain qualifying fifth for the sprint race. Although it was India’s best qualifying position so far, Narain was disappointed.
I’m not really happy [...]

Narain Karthikeyan is Black?

Most of you who watch stand up comedy will remember the Wanda Sykes joke about Tiger Woods.
It goes something like
People were talking about this Black kid coming out of Stanford and when he won his first tournament, people started reporting that he was 50% Black and 50% Asian.
After he won a few more tournaments, [...]

Bad weekend for the Indian racers

Both Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandok were racing this weekend as we had posted earlier.
Narain representing Team India qualified 5th for the sprint race, the best qualifying position for India thus far, but unfortunately he could not turn that into a good result.

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Karun and Narain show some speed.

In the season opener GP2 race in Bahrain, Karun Chandok racing for the Italian team Durango qualified 16th with a time of 1:41:810, .937 seconds behind Luca Filippi of the Super Nova International team.
In the first race, he managed to gain 5 positions finishing 9th behind fellow team mate Borja Garcia who qualified 8th. The [...]

Narain talks about another season in A1GP and Speedcar

In a recent interview ( I think with the PTI ) Narain spoke about his future in racing, his outing with Team India and the newly formed Speedcar series, which he is rumored to be a part of.
Specifically answering a question about the A1GP and the possibility of him racing with them for the next [...]

Narain Karthikeyan signs up to race in the Speedcar series

F1, A1GP, 24 hours of LeMans and now Narain Karthikeyan joins big name drivers like Jean Alesi, Stefan Johansson, Gianni Morbidelli and Johnny Herbert in the new Speedcar championship starting in November this year.

Speedcar championship is a newly formed series that pits 24 identical cars using a 600bhp engine. From the initial looks of it, [...]

Team India aims for a podium in Mexico - A1GP Round 9

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Alex Wurz - Karthikeyan’s inspiration

Unless the news involves Narain Karthikeyan, I can’t seem to get myself to post here. I guess it is the fact that no other blogger covers him as much, combined with the fact that Narain is currently India’s only hope at the pinnacle. Either way, we have more Narain news for you.
In a recent interview [...]

Narain manages to finish 9th in the Feature race - grabs 2 points [Updated]

Narain does it again, starting from the 21st position, he finished 15th in the Sprint race.
In the feature race he finished 4 laps down at a decent 9th, scoring 2 points for Team India.
At this point, I have not seen the race and there are practically no race reports online, but I can see that [...]

Mistakes and accidents spoil Narain’s qualifying

In a sentence, Narain will start the Durban round of A1GP from the last row.

Narain hits the kerb and the front end comes loose.
Images grabbed from the teaser video on A1GP’s website.

Despite setting the second fastest time in a few practice sessions, which exhibited flawless driving, Narain managed to catch a kerb in qualifying, resulting [...]