Armaan Ebrahim

Armaan Ebrahim is an Indian car racer from Chennai. He is the vice-president of MECO Motorsports.

Background and personal life

Ebrahim was born in an Indian Muslim family, the son of Akbar Ebrahim, a former F3 champion. The family is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
In December 2021, Ebrahim married Anushpala Kamineni, daughter of Anil and Shobana Kamineni, in an elaborate Hindu religious ceremony. Anil Kamineni is a Hyderabad-based businessman and Shobana is the daughter of Prathap Reddy, the founder of Apollo Hospitals.
Anushpala has one sister, Upasana, who is the wife of Telugu film star Ram Charan, himself the son of superstar Chiranjeevi.

Career

Ebrahim started his career in karting and became Formula LGB Champion in 2004. He later moved to Formula BMW Asia for the 2005 season. During the same year, he represented A1 Team India in the A1 Grand Prix Championship, driving in six races, before the team was disbanded due to lack of funds. He again drove for A1 Team India for the 2006–07 [A1 Grand Prix season], once again on a partial schedule. In 2007, he also drove in Formula V6 Asia where he captured five race wins and finished second in points.
Ebrahim drove for the David Price Racing team in the 2008 [GP2 Asia Series season|2008] GP2 Asia Series where he finished 26th in points with a best finish of ninth position.
On 12 December 2008, Ebrahim was announced as the first Asian driver to sign up for the rebirth of FIA Formula Two in 2009, driving car number six. He finished seventeenth in points, with two sixth place finishes at Brno being his best results. The Formula Two website rated Armaan as the "Driver with the Best Race Form". On an average Armaan overtook eight cars per race in Formula 2. The second best driver was Edoardo Piscopo who managed an average of five. Ebrahim returned to FIA Formula Two in 2010 driving for MotorSport Vision. He captured his first F2 podium finish at Circuit de Valencia and improved to tenth in points. He returned to the series and team in 2011, but left the series after twelve of the sixteen races. He had a best finish of sixth and finished 15th in points.
In 2012 [Indy Lights season|2012], Ebrahim signed to race in the American Firestone Indy Lights series for the new Fan Force United team owned by former IndyCar Series driver Tyce Carlson. Ebrahim and the team mutually parted ways after five races. He had a best finish of eighth in the season opener and ultimately wound up 13th in the championship.
Ebrahim is popular in the Indian media and featured on a special programme on national television with former F1 superstar David Coulthard, during the latter's visit to India in October 2009.
Ebrahim has competed for BMW Auto Service Team India in the FIA GT Series, which began on 1 April 2013.
Ebrahim competed in 2014 [Blancpain Sprint Series season|2014 Blancpain Sprint Series] season with Team Fortec Motorsport where he secured seven podiums in the silver cup.
Ebrahim has competed in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia series.
In his first season of Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia series in 2015, he raced with Dilantha Malagamuwa for Dilango Racing
In the 2016 season of Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Series, Ebrahim raced for team Dilango Racing with Dilantha Malagamuva. He won in the Pro-Am Class championship and finished fourth overall.
In 2017, Ebrahim stepped up to the Pro class with FFF Racing Team, partnering British racing driver Jack Bartholomew. For the 2018 season, he competed with team Team Top Speed partnering with rookie Anindith Reddy. The duo managed to take a second place finish in their very first outing at Sepang.

X1 Racing

In 2019, with fellow Indian driver, Aditya Patel, Ebrahim created the X1 Racing League, the world's first professional franchise-based motorsport league.