The 2023 MRF Formula 2000 season is the ninth running of the Formula 2000-level single-seater championship in India previously known as the MRF Challenge. This is the second season of the championship restarted in 2022 without support of the FIA and simply called MRF Formula 2000, with the field consisting of domestic drivers rather than foreign racers competing over the European and Northern American off-season.[1]
The season began on 22 September 2022 and is currently planned to be run over three weekends until December of 2023.[2]
Drivers
The following drivers contest the championship:
| Template:Tooltip | Driver | Rounds |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | Template:Flagicon Chetan Korada | 1 |
| 7 | Template:Flagicon Aditya Swaminathan | 1 |
| 10 | Template:Flagicon Arya Singh | 1 |
| 18 | Template:Flagicon Sandeep Kumar | 1 |
| 27 | Template:Flagicon Rohaan Madesh | 1 |
| Source: [3] | ||
Race calendar and results
Like in the season before, the calendar consists only of races held at Madras Motor Race Track.[2]
| Round | Circuit | Date | Pole position | Fastest lap | Winning driver | Support bill | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Template:Tooltip1 | Template:Flagicon Madras Motor Race Track, Chennai | 23 September | Template:Flagicon Arya Singh | Template:Flagicon Aditya Swaminathan | Template:Flagicon Sandeep Kumar | Super Stock Cars Indian Touring Car National Championship MRF F1600 Formula LGB 1300 |
| R2 | 24 September | Template:Flagicon Arya Singh | Template:Flagicon Chetan Korada | ||||
| R3 | Template:Flagicon Aditya Swaminathan | Template:Flagicon Sandeep Kumar | |||||
| 2 | R1 | Template:Flagicon Madras Motor Race Track, Chennai | 13–15 October | Super Stock Cars Indian Touring Car National Championship MRF F1600 Formula LGB 1300 | |||
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| R3 | |||||||
| 3 | R1 | Template:Flagicon Madras Motor Race Track, Chennai | 15–17 December | Super Stock Cars Indian Touring Car National Championship MRF F1600 Formula LGB 1300 | |||
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Championship standings
- Scoring system
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
- Drivers' standings
| Template:Tooltip | Driver | CHE1 Template:Flagicon |
CHE2 Template:Flagicon |
CHE3 Template:Flagicon |
Points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Template:Flagicon Sandeep Kumar | 1 | 2 | 1 | 68 | ||||||
| 2 | Template:Flagicon Chetan Korada | 4 | 1 | 3 | 52 | ||||||
| 3 | Template:Flagicon Arya Singh | 3 | 4 | 2 | 45 | ||||||
| 4 | Template:Flagicon Aditya Swaminathan | 2 | 5 | DSQ | 28 | ||||||
| 5 | Template:Flagicon Rohaan Madesh | 5 | 3 | Ret | 25 | ||||||
| Template:Tooltip | Driver | CHE1 Template:Flagicon |
CHE2 Template:Flagicon |
CHE3 Template:Flagicon |
Points | ||||||
References
- ↑ MRF MMSC #FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2022 - Round 1, FMSCI India. Facebook(7 October 2022). Retrieved 8 October 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Madras Motor Sports Club on facebook: "Provisional Dates 2023". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
- ↑ JA Motorsport on facebook: "Our Winners of Race 1 of the MRF F2000s and F1600s".