Akhil Rabindra

Racing career

Rabindra began his motorsports career in India with the National Go Karting Championship and Formula LGB Swift. In 2011 he won the JK Tyres MMS Rotax Max National Rookie Championship, was vice champion in the Amaron National Karting Challenge, and won the Red Bull Kart Fight. He made his racing debut in 2012 in the JK Tyre National Racing Championship's LGB Formula-Swift series, and that year also made two guest appearances in the JK Racing Asia Series, finishing seventh in three races.

In 2014 he was vice champion in the JK Tyre National Racing Championship, driving ex-Formula BMW cars previously used by Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Daniel Ricciardo, and Sebastien Buemi, earning nine podium finishes across four rounds. That year he also raced a limited programme in the Formula Masters China Series in a Tatuus FA010 chassis with a 2.0 Formula engine producing 180 HP, achieving a best finish of fourth. In 2014 the FMSCI nominated Rabindra for the FIA Institute Young Drivers Excellence Academy, where he won his place for the Asia-Pacific region and became the winner of the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Award.

In 2015 he competed in the BRDC Formula 4 Championship in the United Kingdom with Wayne Douglas Motorsport, driving the MSV F4-013 with a 2-litre Ford Durance engine and paddle shift gearbox, scoring 203 points and finishing 14th overall, while also racing in the JK Tyre National Racing Championship. In 2016 he stepped up to the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship with Lanan racing, driving a Tatuus chassis with adjustable aerodynamics and a 2-litre 230 bhp Cosworth engine on circuits including Spa Francorchamps and Silverstone, scoring 124 points and finishing 18th overall.

Rabindra won the Toyota Etios Colombo Night Race in 2013 and was vice champion in the Toyota Etios Motor Racing series that same year.