In an unremarkable industrial shed on the outskirts of Coimbatore, a small team is quietly attempting something the Indian motorsport establishment has never managed: to design, build and race a prototype capable of one day lining up at Le Mans.
The man behind it left a comfortable career in Formula feeder categories to come home and start from nothing. His workshop has more ambition than air conditioning.
Building from scratch
The prototype is being developed almost entirely in-house, from the carbon tub to the suspension geometry, with a small crew of engineers who could earn more abroad and have chosen not to.
Funding is the constant enemy. Every component is a negotiation, every test day a small financial event. And yet the car exists, runs, and is getting quicker.
Everyone told me to do this in Europe. I wanted to prove it could start here.
— The team’s founder
The long road
Le Mans is years away, if it happens at all — the regulations, the budgets and the qualifying ladder are all formidable. The founder knows this better than anyone.
But India’s motorsport story has always needed a dreamer willing to build the first car. In a shed in Coimbatore, someone finally is.