At the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) Annual General Meeting of 2016, held in Chennai yesterday, India’s racing legend Mr. Akbar Ebrahim was elected as the President of FMSCI and Mr. J.Prithiviraj elected as the Vice-President.
Akbar Ebrahim
The 43rd Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Motor Sports Club of India was held on Monday 12th December 2016 at Chennai. Elections were conducted for member clubs to be elected to the FMSCI council for the years 2017-2018. The following Clubs/Councillors were declared elected.
COUNCIL for 2017-2018.
Madras Motor Sports Club (MMSC) – KD Madan
Karnataka Motor Sports Club (KMSC) – Shivu Shivappa
Coimbatore Auto Sports Club(CASC)- J. Prithiviraj
Calcutta Motor Sports Club (CMSC) – Sanjay Sharma
Indian Automotive Racing Club(IARC).- Ketan Mehta
Motor Sports Club of Chikmaglur (MSCC)- Farooq Ahmed
Meco Motorsports Club (MMS) – Akbar Ebrahim
Ramakrishna Race Performance (RRPM)—Arindam Ghosh
Elections were also conducted for the post of President and Vice President and the following were elected by the General Body.
Akbar Ebrahim – President
J. Prithiviraj – Vice President
Akbar Ebrahim is a well-known former racer and organizer of the National Rotax Max Karting Championship for last several years. He has been in the FMSCI council for the past 4 years and as a Chairman of 4W Racing Commission has streamlined and brought in many racing initiatives and programs which have resulted in a quantum jump in car racing in India.
Akbar Ebrahim said “ It is a great honour to be elected as the President of the FMSCI .I intend to dedicate my time and energy towards further development of Indian Motorsport right from the grass root level all the way to the top Nationally and Internationally for all disciplines of the sport”
An action packed 2017 FMSCI calendar awaits motorsports enthusiasts with 13 National Championships in various disciplines set to kick off in January itself.
At the recent concluded FIA AGM, the following Fmsci nominees were inducted into the following FIA Commissions.
1) Driver’s Commission – Karun Chandhok
2) Drag Racing Commission – J Balamurugan
3) Rally Commission – Ashwin Pandit
4) Circuits – Manoj P Dalal
5) Medical – Dr. Uday Balakrishnan
6) Land Speed Records – Hormazd Sorabjee
7) Women in Motorsports – Navaz Sandhu
8) Volunteers and Officials – Prabha Shankar
9) CIK Karting – Rayomand Banajee
10) Truck Racing – Vicky Chandhok
11) Closed Road – Mohan Nagarajan
12) Hill Climb – Raj Kapoor
13) Off Road – Jayesh Desai
FIM Commissions
1) GP Roop Kumar – Technical.
2) Anand Sashidharan – Legal.