Formula E made a long-anticipated debut in India last weekend as Hyderabad played host to round four of the 2023 season. A world championship race of any sort in India had seemed like a pipedream until a few years ago, so the fact that the organisers could tap support from the state government and pull off the event was an achievement in itself.
The significance of the Hyderabad E-Prix cannot be understated, since India hadn’t witnessed a motor race of this scale since Formula 1 last visited the Buddh International Circuit back in 2013. In fact, the taxation saga and the bureaucratic issues that clouded F1’s brief visit to the subcontinent had so badly dented India’s reputation that few thought it would be able to host a significant international race again.…
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