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Age: 24 Years
Hometown: Mumbai
Girlfriend: Maia Shroff
Some Lesser Known Facts About Jehan Daruvala
- Jehan Daruvala is an Indian motorsports racing driver, who’s a reserve driver of the Formula E workforce for Mahindra Racing. He is a Formula 2 driver for MP Motorsports.
- He grew to become eager about automobile racing at a really younger age.
- When he was 9 years outdated, he started karting together with his father as a leisure exercise and later, realised that he wished to be a automobile racer.
- At the age of 13, he started his driving journey with karting in 2011. He had participated in lots of karting competitions.
- Rayomand Banajee, Go-karting champion and proprietor of Rayo Racing, noticed Jehan whereas karting and realised Jehan’s potential and expertise for racing. Later, Rayomand started to educate him for a robust basis in racing.
- In 2011, he participated within the ‘One in a Billion’ hunt organised by the Force India F1 workforce and have become an apprentice of the workforce after he was chosen within the high three of the hunt.
- In 2013, he gained the title of champion on the Super 1 National Championship. Later, he secured vice-champion positions at a number of racing competitions held throughout Asia and Europe.
- In 2015, he lifted as much as single-seaters within the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC and Formula Renault 2.0 Alps championships with Fortec Motorsport. After he took three podiums and scored constant factors, he was ranked fifth within the Northern European Cup. In the identical yr, he participated as a visitor driver within the Eurocup and Alps sequence.
- In 2016, he achieved a gap pole place at Monza Circuit in Italy and took the rostrum within the second race.
- In 2016, he participated in Toyota Racing Series, the place he gained 3 times and took three podiums, which made him vice-champion to Lando Norris, who’s a Belgian-British racing driver. He completed 2nd within the Toyota Racing Series.
- In the 2017 season of the Toyota Racing Series, he took essentially the most pole positions and gained two occasions, together with one within the New Zealand Grand Prix.
- In 2016, he signed to race with the Carlin Motorsport workforce.
- In 2017, he was ranked sixth within the European Formula 3 Championship. In the identical yr, he achieved the tenth place Macau Grand Prix.
- In 2017, he grew to become the primary Indian to win New Zealand International Grand Prix, an annual motor racing occasion that takes place held in New Zealand. He gained the race with a Tatuus FT-50 Toyota.
- In the 2018 season of the European Formula 3 Championship, he completed third within the third race at Pau Grand Prix’s opening weekend.
- In 2018, he took the pole place and quickest lap within the first race of the Spa-Francorchamps spherical, which turned out to be his solely win of the yr.
- He secured twelfth place within the 2018 Macau Grand Prix.
- In 2018, he signed with the MP Motorsport workforce in the course of the Yas Marina GP3 finale. He secured the twenty sixth place within the race.
- In 2019, he signed with Prema Powerteam for racing within the Formula 3 Championship’s inaugural season. He participated in 16 races; nevertheless, he gained solely two. He stood third within the championship.
- In February 2020, he signed once more with the Carlin Motorsport workforce earlier than taking part within the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship. He was given the title of Red Bull Junior in the course of the championship. He stood twelfth within the championship after successful just one race.
- In 2021, he gained three races on the F3 Asian Championship held in Abu Dhabi from the workforce Mumbai Falcons India Racing Ltd. He stood third within the championship due to his total efficiency and scoring 192 factors within the championship.
- In 2021, he once more participated in FIA Formula 2 Championship and was ranked seventh after successful 2 races out of 23.
- In January 2022, he signed once more with the Prema Racing workforce earlier than taking part within the FIA Formula 2 Championship. He didn’t win any race within the championship; nevertheless, he scored third rank due to the podiums he took and the factors he gained.
- After the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix, he was given a chance to take the Formula 1 automobile McLaren MCL35M for a check drive on the Silverstone Circuit in England. In July 2022, he took the automobile for the second check drive on the Algarve International Circuit in Portugal. In September 2022, he took the automobile for the third check drive and drove the automobile at the Circuit Paul Ricard in France.
- In an interview, when he was requested about how he felt when he gained an opportunity for taking the 2021 Formula 1 winner automobile, Mclaren MCL35 for a check drive, he stated,
I’ve by no means pushed a Formula 1 automobile earlier than. This check is for me to study concerning the automobile and its traits and discover its limits. My intention is to win the F2 Championships and hopefully, I do sufficient and my title is on the market (to be observed).”
- In November 2022, it was introduced that he would take part as a check and reserve driver for Mahindra Racing in Formula E season 2022-2023.
- In 2023, he switched again to the MP Motorsport workforce within the fourth season of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. He completed third in FIA Formula 2 Championship Saudi Arabia spherical. He completed seventeenth place in FIA Formula 2 spherical in Melbourne.
- In April 2023, he debuted with the Berlin rookie check in Formula E equipment and stood within the seventh place.
- He considers Fernando Alonso, a Spanish racing driver, as his position mannequin.
- One of his responsible pleasures is consuming a Shake Shack burger in London.
- According to him, one actor who may painting Jehan in his biopic can be Sidharth Malhotra.
- After Narain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok, he needs to be the primary Indian to race in Formula 1.