Gaurav Gill
Gaurav Gill 2019
Personal information
NationalityIndian
Born (1981-12-02) 2 December 1981 (age 42)
World Rally Championship record
Active years2007-2019 ( Team MRF ) Years = 2019 current - Jk Tyres
TeamsTeam MRF, Team Sidvin India, Jk Tyres
Rallies10
Stage wins0
First rally2008 Wales Rally GB WRC
Last rally2019 Rally TURKEY WRC
Last updated on: August 2018.

Gaurav Gill is a professional rally driver and an Indian motorsports athlete who competes in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. In 2013, Gaurav Gill became the first Indian driver to win the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and went on to win two more APRC titles in 2016 and 2018. Gill became the first sportsperson from Motorsports to win the coveted Arjuna Award from the President of India in 2019.[1]

Gaurav Gill also holds the record for the highest number of the Indian National Rally Championship titles for four-wheelers along with Naren Kumar. He equaled the record of Kumar by winning his seventh title in 2020. The last four of his seven titles were won with the Mahindra Adventure team with experienced Musa Sherif as his navigator. Gaurav also took part in the World Rally Championship round in Australia in 2018 as an unregistered driver in the WRC2 class driving for new development MRF Tyres, making him the only Indian driver to do so ever.

Early life and career

Gaurav was born on 2 December 1981. He got into motorsport racing motorbikes and competed in the National Motocross Championship in 1999. He moved to 4-wheel racing and started competing in car rallies and endurance races. He signed up for the Raid-de-Himalaya in 2000. He was runner-up in the National Road Racing Championship in 2003 and won the title in the following year. He finished the 2006 season, second overall. In 2007, Gaurav won the Indian National Rally Championship with Team MRF and made his debut at the Asia Pacific Rally Championship. He finished runner up in the APRC in 2012 and became the first Indian to win the title in 2013 for Team MRF Skoda.[2][3][4][5]

Career results

APRC results

Year Entrant Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 APRC Points
2007 Team MRF Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX NCL
Ret 		NZL AUS JPN 8th 9
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII MAL
5 		IDN
4 		CHN
Ret
2008 Team MRF Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX NCL AUS NZL JPN IDN
1 		MAL
Ret 		CHN 8th 17
2009 Team MRF Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X NCL AUS
4 		NZL JPN
Ret 		IDN
Ret 		CHN
Ret 		4th 12
Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX MAL
Ret
2010 Team MRF Mitsubishi Lancer Evo X MAL
2 		JPN
3 		NZL
7 		AUS
1 		NCL
DNS 		IDN
C 		CHN
Ret 		2nd 97
2011 Team MRF Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX MAL
2 		AUS
2 		NCL
Ret 		NZL
Ret 		JPN
Ret 		CHN
Ret 		4th 63
2012 Team MRF Škoda Škoda Fabia S2000 NZL
3 		NCL
1 		AUS
Ret 		MAL
Ret 		JPN
Ret 		CHN
Ret 		4th 82
2013 Team MRF Škoda Škoda Fabia S2000 NZL
2 		NCL
1 		AUS
Ret 		MAL
Ret 		JPN
1 		CHN
2 		1st 145.5
2014 Team MRF Škoda Škoda Fabia S2000 NZL
1 		IND
C 		NCL
2 		AUS
Ret 		MAL
1 		JPN
Ret 		CHN
Ret 		3rd 104
2015[6] Team MRF Škoda Škoda Fabia S2000 NZL
2 		NCL
1[7] 		AUS
Ret 		MAL
2 		JPN
Ret 		CHN
Ret 		3rd 104

Awards

Arjuna Award In Motorsport

References

  1. ^ "7 tips from Gaurav Gill for upcoming Indian rally drivers". Red Bull. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  2. ^ "About Gaurav Gill". Archived from the original on 5 September 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
  3. ^ The Hindu. 25 August 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080828113508/http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/25/stories/2008082560231600.htm. Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. ((cite news)): Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "Profile, Gaurav Gill". Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/sport/motorsport/article961329.ece. ((cite news)): Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "FIA APRC - Asia-Pacific Rally Championship".
  7. ^ "Perfect Result for MRF in New Caledonia". 20 May 2015.

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Sporting positions Preceded byChris Atkinson Asia-Pacific Rally Champion 2013 Succeeded byJan Kopecky
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