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Building Motorsport Infrastructure
Realising the paucity of infrastructure, essential for the success of motorsports, JK Tyre took upon itself the task of developing the requisite infrastructure in India. Over the last five years, JK Tyre has invested over Rs. 15 crores to support its constant endeavor towards making India the motorsport hub of Asia.

JK Tyre has actively associated itself with various national and local level motorsports events in the country, thus building a complete infrastructure, right from providing ground-level opportunities to attract budding talent to this sport and then guiding them at every stage to reach international milestones of success.

JK Tyre has helped to institutionalise a Racing Driving School at Chennai, under the aegis of India's best-known rally drivers & trainers, Vicky Chandok & Akbar Ebrahim, which, every year, conducts workshops at regular intervals to identify and train new motorsport talent. With the requisite infrastructure and support of Team JK Tyre's drivers, the new talents get an opportunity to learn from the experiences of established masters of this art. JK Tyre also plans to convert this facility into a fully-fledged Racing School.

JK Tyre is also credited with introducing the concept of Karting in India and has patronised karting circuits in seven cities of the country. By organising country's first National Karting Championship in 2000, JK Tyre changed the history of motorsports in India, as this seven-city, seven-week 'biggest & most-hyped' motorsport spectacle of India made thousands experience the frenzy of this sport. In 2001, the Championship raged 9 cities, acquiring a truly national stature and 20 year old Ameya Walvalkar from Mumbai emerged the National Karting Champion.

JK Tyre is also planning to create a consortium of different corporates to support further set of activities to promote this sport in India.


Nurturing Indian Motorsport Talent
JK Tyre took upon itself the task of identifying, patronising and guiding motorsport talent in the country and then provide these talented young drivers essential exposure to various national and international motorsports forums where they can perform and establish themselves.

JK Tyre has over the years identified some of the most promising international motorsport talent that includes:

The JK Team gets technical support from Mr. Brian Palmer, a renowned and revered name in the international motorsports arena. Besides, Mr. Patrick Roberts, a renowned technical expert from UK, is presently the chief engineer of JK Racing Team and has played a significant role in Karun & Asif's recent victories at Formula Asia 2000.

Team JK Tyre has dominated the race tracks in India for the last five years and is now setting international race tracks on fire. Year 2001 was the golden year for Indian Motorsports, with the International fraternity sitting up and taking note of what the future holds.

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