London, Jul 29 (PTI) Someone who has witnessed the frenzy and fascination around a Formula 1 race in India, it pains Karun Chandhok to see that interest in motorsport in the country has declined drastically.
Not only the high-profile sport exited the country due to varied reasons, the agonising wait to see the next Indian in Formula 1 after Narain Karthikeyan and Chandhok continues.
Chandhok now ensures India’s small presence in the paddock as a pundit. The 39-year-old racer-turned-commentator badly misses the days when Formula 1 visited India and puts the steep decline in popularity of motorsport in the country down to lack of an Indian driver on the grid.
“Honestly it’s been a bit of a disappointment, a bit of a shame about how much the interest has gone down actually.
“That period around 2008 to 2013 we had two Indians in F1, we had a team in F1, we had a race (Indian GP) and the interest was amazing. You can’t imagine that these days,” Chandhok told
Source: PTI News
