Bengaluru born 25-year-old Akhil Rabindra, the only Indian on the European GT4 Series Grid, completed Round 5 at the Circuit Hockenheimring in Hockenheim, Germany with a P7 & P6 finish in the Silver Cup Category. Akhil drives the Aston Martin Vantage GT4 car for the team, Racing Spirit of Léman.
The weekend for Akhil began on a positive note with P4 in Qualification 1 and P7 in Qualification 2 with best timings of 1:47.513 from 10 laps and 1:47.884 from 6 laps respectively.
In Race 1, Akhil finished on P7 along with his codriver for a combined time of 1:00:07.596 over 30 laps. In Race 2 they finished one place above from the first race to finish P6 over 28 laps in 1:01:39.171.
“I am happy that I could race consistently over the weekend. The conditions were pretty good and we are happy that we did not have much difficulties like the previous race. Now the goal is to better the performance in the final race of the season later this month,” said Akhil Rabindra after the race.
He will finish the season in Round 6 of the European GT4 Championship at Barcelona, Spain from 30th September to October 2nd, 2022 where he will hope to better his position in the Silver Cup standings and finish on the podium.
