Armaan Ebrahim
Nationality Indian
Born (1989-05-17) 17 May 1989
Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Blancpain Sprint Series season career
Debut season2009
Current teamFortec Motorsport
Car number6
Former teamsA1 Team India, David Price Racing, MotorSport Vision, Fan Force United, BMW Auto Service Team India
Starts41
Wins0
Poles0
Fastest laps0
Best finish10th in 2010
Previous series
2005
2005
2005-07
2006
2007–08
2008
2009, 2010 & 2011
2012		Formula BMW Asia
Formula BMW World Final
A1 Grand Prix
Formula Renault UK
Formula V6 Asia
GP2 Asia Series

FIA Formula Two Championship
Firestone Indy Lights

Armaan Ebrahim (born 17 May 1989) is a car racer from Chennai, India. He is the vice-president of MECO Motorsports.

Background and personal life

Armaan was born in an Indian family, the son of Akbar Ebrahim, a former F3 champion. The family is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

In December 2021, Armaan Ebrahim married Anushpala Kamineni, daughter of Anil and Shobana Kamineni, in an elaborate Hindu religious ceremony. Anil Kamineni is a Hyderabad-based businessman and Shobana is the daughter of Prathap Reddy, the founder of Apollo Hospitals.

Anushpala has one sister, Upasana, who is the wife of Telugu film star Ram Charan, himself the son of superstar Chiranjeevi.

Career

Ebrahim started his career in karting and became Formula LGB Champion in 2004. He later moved to Formula BMW Asia for the 2005 season. During the same year he represented A1 Team India in the A1 Grand Prix Championship, driving in 6 races, before the team was disbanded due to lack of funds. He again drove for A1 Team India Part Season in the 2006–07 A1 Grand Prix season. In 2007 he also drove in Formula V6 Asia where he captured five race wins and finished second in points.

He drove for the David Price Racing team in the 2008 GP2 Asia Series where he finished 26th in points with a best finish of 9th position.

On 12 December 2008 Ebrahim was announced as the first (and ultimately, only) Asian driver to sign up for the rebirth of FIA Formula Two in 2009, driving car number six.[1] He finished seventeenth in points, with two sixth-place finishes at Brno being his best results. The Formula Two website rated Armaan as the "Driver with the Best Race Form". On an average Armaan overtook 8 cars per race in Formula 2. The second best driver was Edoardo Piscopo who managed an average of 5.[2] Ebrahim returned to FIA Formula Two in 2010 driving for MotorSport Vision. He captured his first F2 podium finish at Circuit de Valencia and improved to tenth in points. He returned to the series and team in 2011 but left the series after twelve of the sixteen races. He had a best finish of sixth and finished 15th in points.

In 2012 Ebrahim signed to race in the American Firestone Indy Lights series for the new Fan Force United team owned by former IndyCar Series driver Tyce Carlson.[3] Ebrahim and the team mutually parted ways after five races.[4] He had a best finish of 8th in the season opener and ultimately wound up 13th in the championship.

Ebrahim is popular in the Indian media and featured on a special programme on national television with former F1 superstar David Coulthard, during the latter's visit to India in October, 2009.[5]

Ebrahim has competed for BMW Auto Service Team India in the FIA GT Series, which began on 1 April 2013.[6]

Ebrahim competed in 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series season with Team Fortec Motorsport where he secured seven podiums in the silver cup.[7]

He has competed in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia series. In his first season of Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia series in 2015 he raced with Dilantha Malagamuwa for Dilango Racing[8] In the 2016 season of Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Series he raced for team Dilango Racing with Dilantha Malagamuva. He won in the Pro-Am Class championship and finished 4th overall overall.[9][10] In 2017, Ebrahim stepped up to the Pro class with FFF Racing Team, partnering British racing driver Jack Bartholomew.[11] For the 2018 season he competed with team Team Top Speed partnering with rookie Anindith Reddy.[12] The duo managed to take a second-place finish in their very first outing at Sepang.[13]

X1 Racing

In 2019, with fellow Indian driver, Aditya Patel, Ebrahim created the X1 Racing League, the world's first professional franchise-based motorsport league.[14][15]

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2005 Formula BMW Asia Team E-Rain 14 1 1 1 4 129 5th
Formula BMW World Final Team E-Rain 1 0 0 0 0 N/A NC
2005-06 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team India 11 0 0 0 0 0 23rd
2006 Formula Renault 2.0 UK Position 1 Racing 19 0 0 0 0 54 24th
2006-07 A1 Grand Prix A1 Team India 10 0 0 0 0 13 16th
2007 Formula Renault V6 Asia Team TARADTM 12 5 0 2 8 116 2nd
2008 Formula V6 Asia Black Tara 6 2 0 4 1 59 7th
GP2 Asia David Price Racing 10 0 0 0 0 0 26th
2009 FIA Formula Two Championship MotorSport Vision 15 0 0 0 0 7 17th
German Formula Three Championship Van Amersfoort Racing 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
2010 FIA Formula Two Championship MotorSport Vision 18 0 0 0 1 78 10th
2011 FIA Formula Two Championship MotorSport Vision 12 0 0 0 0 16 15th
2012 Indy Lights Fan Force United 3 0 0 0 0 60 12th

† As Ebrahim was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Points
2005–06 India GBR
SPR		 GBR
FEA		 GER
SPR		 GER
FEA		 POR
SPR
17		 POR
FEA
13		 AUS
SPR
17		 AUS
FEA
13		 MYS
SPR
11		 MYS
FEA
EX		 UAE
SPR
20		 UAE
FEA
14		 RSA
SPR
14		 RSA
FEA
Ret		 IDN
SPR
18		 IDN
FEA
15		 MEX
SPR		 MEX
FEA		 USA
SPR		 USA
FEA		 CHN
SPR		 CHN
FEA		 24th 0
2006–07 NED
SPR
Ret		 NED
FEA
Ret		 CZE
SPR
17		 CZE
FEA
18		 CHN
SPR
18		 CHN
FEA
11		 MYS
SPR
16		 MYS
FEA
19		 IDN
SPR
18		 IDN
FEA
Ret		 NZL
SPR		 NZL
FEA		 AUS
SPR		 AUS
FEA		 RSA
SPR		 RSA
FEA		 MEX
SPR		 MEX
FEA		 CHN
SPR		 CHN
FEA		 GBR
SPR		 GBR
SPR		 16th 13

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points
2008 David Price Racing UAE
FEA
21		 UAE
SPR
Ret		 IND
FEA
Ret		 IND
SPR
9		 MAL
FEA
Ret		 MAL
SPR
19		 BHR
FEA
13		 BHR
SPR
16		 UAE
FEA
19		 UAE
SPR
Ret		 26th 0

Complete FIA Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos Points
2009 VAL
1
15		 VAL
2
16		 BRN
1
6		 BRN
2
6		 SPA
1
DNS		 SPA
2
Ret		 BRH
1
Ret		 BRH
2
10		 DON
1
8		 DON
2
Ret		 OSC
1
9		 OSC
2
13		 IMO
1
Ret		 IMO
2
Ret		 CAT
1
12		 CAT
2
10		 17th 7
2010 SIL
1
8		 SIL
2
9		 MAR
1
6		 MAR
2
6		 MNZ
1
Ret		 MNZ
2
5		 ZOL
1
5		 ZOL
2
Ret		 ALG
1
7		 ALG
2
Ret		 BRH
1
9		 BRH
2
7		 BRN
1
Ret		 BRN
2
13		 OSC
1
11		 OSC
2
10		 VAL
1
3		 VAL
1
7		 10th 78
2011 SIL
1
11		 SIL
2
7		 MAG
1
12		 MAG
2
Ret		 SPA
1
13		 SPA
2
20		 NÜR
1
15		 NÜR
2
13		 BRH
1
9		 BRH
2
6		 RBR
1
14		 RBR
2
Ret		 MNZ
1		 MNZ
2		 CAT
1		 CAT
2		 15th 16

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

Indy Lights

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rank Points
2012 Fan Force United STP
8		 ALA
12		 LBH
12		 INDY
13		 DET
10		 MIL IOW TOR EDM TRO BAL FON 13th 97

References

  1. ↑ "Armaan Ebrahim signs up for F2". FIA Formula Two Championship. 12 December 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "The season so far - 2009 statistics". FIA Formula Two Championship. 5 October 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Fan Force United Enters Series with Ebrahim Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, eFormulaCarNews, 3 January 2012, Retrieved 2012-01-12
  4. ↑ Armaan leaves Fan Force United! Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Auto India Sports, 6 June 2012, Retrieved 2012-06-06
  5. ↑ "On pole with David Coulthard". NDTV. 31 October 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "Armaan to drive in FIA GT Series". The Hindu. 18 March 2013.
  7. ↑ "Blancpain Sprint Series 2014 Standings". Blancpain GT Series Official Website. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "2015 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo Asia: Armaan Ebrahim wins in Japan". Overdrive. 22 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Armaan Ebrahim wins the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Series in the Pro Am Class". JK Tyre Motorsport. 3 December 2016.
  10. ↑ "SUPER TROFEO ROLL OF HONOR".
  11. ↑ "Armaan Ebrahim Steps Up To Pro Class Of Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Series". fmsci. 12 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "Armaan Ebrahim and Anindith Reddy team up for 2018 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia campaign". Overdrive. 12 April 2018.
  13. ↑ "Indian racers abroad and their plans for the 2019 season of motorsport". Overdrive. 4 June 2019.
  14. ↑ "X1 league will help change India's motorsport profile:Ebrahim". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 29 October 2019 – via Business Standard.
  15. ↑ Rebello, Maleeva (14 October 2019). "'X1 is extreme, it's extraordinary': Armaan Ebrahim talks about X1, the new franchise based motor racing league". The Economic Times. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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