CTR-JK Tyre National Racing Championship returns to Kari, Nov 14 to 15

Round 2 heads back to Kari

India's national car racing championship returns to Kari Motor Speedway in Coimbatore on November 14 and 15 for round 2 of the CTR-JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2026. The weekend carries 18 races across the grid, picking up a season that opened at the same track on October 24 and 25.

This is the first year the championship runs as a single national series under the banner "One Nation, One Championship", a merger backed by Chennai Turbo Riders, JK Tyre and the FMSCI that folds what used to be separate regional car racing calendars into one title chase. Round 2 is where that new structure gets its first real test, with drivers who split wins in round 1 going head to head again on the same 2.1 km layout.

A record field in round one

Round 1 drew 137 driver and rider registrations, the highest the championship has recorded in its 29 year history, spread across 8 categories and 17 races over the weekend. CTR Sports' executive director called the number something "this championship has never seen in 29 years" and said it showed the one nation, one championship idea was working. The FMSCI president said a record entry run safely across eight categories was a credit to organisers, officials and competitors.

Rain hit both days in Coimbatore. Red flags and safety car restarts shaped more than one race, and nine drivers failed to finish on the Saturday alone.

Who leads into Coimbatore's second weekend

The categories head into round 2 wide open rather than settled. In the Royal Enfield Continental GT Cup, the one make series run on the Continental GT 650, Bangalore's Anish Shetty took the Pro race by 4.091 seconds while Coimbatore's Senthil Kumar and Navaneeth Kumar shared the other wins, so the Pro title fight stays unresolved. In the Amateur class of the same cup, Vadodara's Kabir Sahoch won every race he started, the most one sided result of the weekend.

Aman Nagdev of Noida was similarly dominant in Indian Touring Cars, winning both his races by more than 18 seconds, the biggest margin of the round. In Indian Junior Touring Cars, Team Performance Racing's Deepak Ravikumar and Srinivas Teja split the two races by just over a tenth of a second, keeping that class tight going into Kari again. LGB Formula 4 produced three different winners in three races, Arya Singh, Dhruvh Goswami and Balaprasath, which makes it the category most likely to shuffle again this weekend.

For Indian circuit racing, a championship that can put 137 entries on one grid and still send half its classes into round 2 unresolved is a useful signal. It suggests the merged national series has found enough cars and drivers to make the racing itself, rather than the calendar, the main story this season.

Sources

• CTR. JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2026 creates history with record 137 driver/rider registrations in Coimbatore
• Kari Motor Speedway braces for round 2 as CTR-JK Tyre FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2026 resumes on November 14 to 15
• FMSCI Indian National Car Racing Championship 2026 round 1 results