Mahindra Racing

Mahindra Racing is an Indian motorsport team based in Mumbai that was founded in 2011 to participate in the motorcycle world championship . The team is owned by the Mahindra Group , which owns the Indian automobile manufacturer Mahindra & Mahindra Limited .

Mahindra Racing also competes in the FIA Formula E Championship . Team principal is Dilbagh Gill .

history

Motorcycle world championship

In 2011 Mahindra competed for the first time in the 125 cc class, which was replaced by Moto3 in the following season . At the Dutch TT 2016 , Francesco Bagnaia achieved the first victory.

FIA Formula E Championship

On November 28, 2013 Mahindra Racing was presented as the eighth team in the newly founded FIA Formula E Championship. The drivers under contract were Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna . Carlin Motorsport looked after the races . After the first season, Mahindra separated from Carlin, the team was only eighth in the team standings.

In the second season Mahindra used the self-developed drive unit under the name Mahindra M2ELECTRO . Nick Heidfeld replaced Chandhok, already at the start of the season scored Heidfeld in third place, the first podium of the team. At the season finale in London , Senna achieved second place on the podium for the team, which ended the season in fifth place in the team standings.

For the FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17 , the team split from Senna, he was replaced by Felix Rosenqvist . The drive unit has been further developed and is used under the name Mahindra M3ELECTRO . As in the previous season, Heidfeld finished third at the season opener, which this time took place in Hong Kong . In the second race of the season, the Marrakech ePrix 2016 , Rosenqvist achieved the first pole position for the team, and he also finished the race in third place. In the further course of the season, Heidfeld achieved another four third places, Rosenqvist won the first race as part of the Berlin ePrix 2017 and was second three times. The team achieved third place in the team standings, and Rosenqvist also came third in the drivers' standings.

In the fourth season the team competed again with the driver duo Heidfeld and Rosenqvist, using the Mahindra M4ELECTRO . Heidfeld again finished third at the season opener in Hong Kong , it was Heidfeld's only podium result. Rosenqvist won the second race in Hong Kong and the third round of the season in Marrakech , but was unable to achieve another podium finish in the further course of the season. At the end of the season, the team finished fourth with 138 points.

In the 2018/19 season Mahindra competed with Jérôme D'Ambrosio and Pascal Wehrlein , who was replaced by Rosenqvist at the start of the season due to contractual obligations. D'Ambrosio won the Marrakech E-Prix and finished the championship in eleventh place, just before Wehrlein. Rosenqvist was left without points. The team finished sixth in the team ranking with 125 points.

statistics

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
FIA Formula E Championship 2014/15		AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MIA	LBH	MON	BER	MOS	LON							58	8th.
Karun Chandhok	5	5	6th	13	DNF	14th	12	13	15th	12	12	13
Bruno Senna	21st	°DNF °	° *14 * °	6th	°5 °	DNF	5	DNF	18th	16	16	4th
FIA Formula E Championship 2015/16		AT	PUT	PUN	BUE	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER	LON								105	5.
Nick Heidfeld	21st	3	°9 °	INJ	7th	8th	°4 °	12	7th	°13 °	7th
Oliver Rowland				13
Bruno Senna	23	13	5	DNF	10	10	5	9	15th	2	6th
FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17		HKG	MAR	BUE	MEX	MON	PAR	BER		NYC		MTR						215	3.
Felix Rosenqvist	19th	15th	3	18th	*16 *	6th	4th	1	2	15th	2	9	2
Nick Heidfeld	23	3	9	15th	12	3	3	3	10	DNF	°3 °	DNF	5
FIA Formula E Championship 2017/18		HKG		MAR	SAN	MEX	PUN	ROME	PAR	BER	ZUR	NYC						138	4th
Felix Rosenqvist	19th	14th	1	1	4th	°DNF °	°5 °	DNF	8th	°11 °	15th	14th	5
Nick Heidfeld	23	3	16	7th	DNF	DNF	DNF	16	11	10	6th	6th	8th
FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19		TO YOU	MAR	SAN	MEX	HKG	SAY	ROME	PAR	MCO	BER	BRN	NYC					125	6th
Jérôme D'Ambrosio	64	3	1	°10 °	4th	DNF	6th	8th	*17 *	11	17th	13	9	11
Felix Rosenqvist	94	DNF
Pascal Wehrlein			°DNF °	2	6th	°DNF °	7th	10	10	4th	10	DNF	7th	12
FIA Formula E Championship 2019/20		TO YOU		SAN	MEX	MAR	BER		BER		BER							49	9.
Jérôme D'Ambrosio	64	9	DNS	NC	10	°13 °	5	DSQ	7th	15th	16	18th
Pascal Wehrlein	94	11	15th	4th	9	°22 °
Alex Lynn							12	11	17th	9	5	8th

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Web links

Commons : Mahindra Racing Formula E Team  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norman Fischer: Two more are missing: Formula E introduces Team Mahindra. Motorsport-Total.com, November 28, 2013, accessed September 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Timo Pape: Official: Senna and Chandhok drive for Mahindra. Motorsport-Total.com, May 26, 2014, accessed September 15, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Norman Fischer: Mahindra separates from Carlin. Motorsport-Total.com, July 9, 2015, accessed July 9, 2015 .