The Curious Case of F1 in India

What if you could have watched F1 on Doordarshan? Or could we have had a Hyderabad or a Mumbai Grand Prix long before the Indian GP at Buddh International Circuit?

July 17, 2023

1.4 billion people in a former-Grand Prix hosting nation that F1 is missing out on during its expansion phase. With no broadcast deal secured in the Indian subcontinent, F1’s chapter in India opened too early for the market to respond the way they thought it would. But what went wrong? Anuj from takes you through a timeline of events that led to the Indian GP’s disappearance from the F1 calendar before its original contract ran out.