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{{Short description|Former Single-Seater Racing Championship}}{{no footnotes|date=August 2013}}
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| engines = [[Maruti 800]]
| country/region = {{flagicon|IND}} [[India]]
| champion driver = {{flagicon|IND}} Mohit Aryan
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[[Image:Formula Maruti in Coimbatore Track.jpg|thumb|right|A Formula Maruti racing car]]
[[Image:Formula Maruti.jpg|thumb|right|First round races of the 2006 JK Tyre Junior Cup - Ajay Kini leads Ajit Narasimhan and Rana Kar out of C3]]

'''Formula Maruti''' is a single-seater, [[open wheel|open-wheel]] class in [[motorsport]] made and raced in [[India]]. Many of the top teams in Indian motorsports have run in the series, including Team Lakshmi Mills Superspeeds, Team JK, Team MRF, Gabriel Racing, WSRF Racing, McDowell Racing, and Team Valvoline. Top Indian drivers have started their career racing in Formula Maruti, most notably [[Narain Karthikeyan]], [[Parthiva Sureshwaren]], [[Karun Chandhok]] and other drivers who have had quite a successful outing in this form are Ajay Kini, Mohit Aryan, Goutham Parekh, Devang Shah, Narendhran, Sudarshan Rao, Kartik Shankar.

==Design==
The car was a brainchild of [[S. Karivardhan]] who wanted an affordable single seater that can be highly economical to run/own, as well as being a stepping stone to several new drivers. It made its debut in 1988 at the [[Sholavaram]] races in [[Chennai]]. Young drivers in India often begin their competitive careers in Formula Maruti, or after a few years in Karting. Formula Maruti provides drivers with their first insights of a racecar, their first racecar experience, and this is where they cut their teeth in racecar set-up.

==Engine==
The engine and gearbox are from [[Maruti 800]] car, which is an 800 cc 3-cylinder engine. This series is a regular in the Indian motorsport scene ever since its launch in 1988. The chassis is a spaceframe monocoque with FRP body panels.

==Teams==
*WSRF
*Rams Racing

==Champions==
{|class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;"
!Season
!Champion
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! 1999
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Parthiva Sureshwaren]]
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! 2000
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Karun Chandhok]]
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|colspan=2 align=center| ''unknown, 2001-03''
|-
! 2004
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Gaurav Gill]]
|-
! 2005
| {{flagicon|IND}} Raymond Banajee
|-
! 2006
| {{flagicon|IND}} Thrivikraman Seshachalam
|-
! 2007 Summer
| {{flagicon|IND}} Naren Shankar
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! 2007 December
| {{flagicon|IND}} Goutham Parekh
|-
! 2008
| {{flagicon|IND}} Gokul Krishna
|-2009 Vikash Anand
! 2011
| {{flagicon|IND}} Mohit Aryan
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Formula Rolon]]
*[[Formula LGB Hyundai]]
*[[Formula LGB Swift]]
*[[Formula Rolon Chevrolet]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070522115357/http://www.thehinduimages.com:8080/hindu/photoDetail.do?photoId=2768809 thehinduimages.com]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Class of Auto racing}}

[[Category:Formula racing series]]
[[Category:Formula racing]]
[[Category:Indian racing cars]]
[[Category:One-make series]]

Formula Maruti - Revision history

imported>Raditya Pramana Putra at 07:31, 19 July 2021