Volkswagen Motorsport India will not run its touring car series, the Vento Cup, under the banner of JK Tyre series from next season and has instead decided to associate itself with the Madras Motor Sports Club (MMSC) promoted Indian National Racing Championship.
The Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) met in Chennai today to open an award championship rights for 2016, 2017 and 2018 based on the bids received from various clubs, organisers and promoters.
The only big change from the previous year is that the Vento Cup will run along with the MMSC events but otherwise all other classes in the respective championships will remain the same. The development also means that Vento Cup will run on MRF tyres as it already supplies tyres to the series run in MMSC FMSCI National Championship, ending a six-year partnership with JK Tyre.
Another change is that now the JK Tyre series will also have a national championship status like the MMSC backed championship, going by a FMSCI statement.
The FMSCI Indian National Karting Championship will continue to be run by the existing promoter Meco Motorsport.
The MMSC has also been awarded the two-wheeler FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship, the two-wheeler and four-wheeler FMSCI Indian National Drag Racing Championship and the newly-introduced two-wheeler FMSCI Indian National Dirt Track Championship.
The bid for the FMSCI Indian National Autocross Championship was presented by Northern Motor Sports Club and also awarded to it. The club organises the famous Desert Storm rally and having organised maximum number of autocross events in India since 2000, the championship was awarded to the club.
The Himalayan Motor Sports Association (HMSA), which organises the Raid de Himalaya, has been awarded the FMSCI Indian National TSD Rally Championship.
"The club has been awarded this based on the fantastic presentation and very unique and futuristic model of the championship. This should see participation improving significantly. Even in the Raid de Himalaya, the number of TSD participants is significant and, the event being a platform for global participation, was one of the main reasons for HMSA being awarded the championship," the FMSCI added.
