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The Madras International Circuit (MIC, previously known as Madras Motor Race Track and Irungattukottai Race Track) is a permanent motor racing circuit located in Irungattukottai, Chennai, India. It was built in the late 1980s and was inaugurated in 1990. It was the first permanent racing circuit in India and is owned by the Madras Motor Sports ...
Formula Rolons at MMSC race track. In the year 1952, while a 1948 M G T F was being cleared from the Madras Harbour, discussions between the owner and R. De Souza on motor racing, rallying, etc. gave birth to the idea of a Motor Sports Club Englishman Rex Strong was a member of Calcutta Motor Sports Club when he met Indian K. Varugis who was searching for auto racing enthusiasts to form an ...
Up till 1988, the TSD format was modeled on endurance format with Popular Rally starting in Cochin would have a re-group in Coimbatore or Ooty, covering a few days and close to 1000 km. Same for South India Rally (Chennai), K1000 or Karnataka 1000 (Bangalore), Scissors Action Rally (Coimbatore) all had routes cris-crossing into each other cities and covered two or more states.
It was an air strip used during World War II; After the Madras Motor Sports Club was formed in mid-50s, it selected Sholavaram [1] to conduct its racing events. Since then racing events took place every year [ 2 ] and continued till late 1980s until the Madras Motor Sports Club built a new track at Irungattukottai , Sriperumbudur , Chennai .
Duplicate rounds in Hyderabad and Irungattukottai were initially dropped in favour of new races at the Buddh International Circuit and a new street circuit around Island Grounds in Chennai. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] An updated calendar was released later on that dropped the planned round at Buddh International Circuit in favor of a second round at ...
Chennai Formula Racing Circuit, also known as the Chennai City Circuit, [1] is a 3.839 km (2.385mi) street circuit in Island Grounds, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It hosted the second round of the F4 Indian Championship and the Indian Racing League 2024 on 31 August 2024.
The track regularly conducts the National Championship races for go-karts, motorcycle road racing and formula racing events. [5] [6] [7] The track is also approved by the CIK and FIA to hold races up to the Formula 3 category. The category of cars that race in this track include Formula Maruti, Formula LGB, and Formula Rolon Chevrolet. The ...
Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a handicap ) and race to a set finish point; and time trials , where individual riders or teams ...