2024 MRF Formula 2000 season

2024 MRF Formula 2000

Drivers' Champion: Jaden Pariat

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All races were held at Madras Motor Race Track for the second year in a row.

The 2024 MRF Formula 2000 season was the tenth running of the Formula 2000-level single-seater championship in India previously known as the MRF Challenge. This was the third season of the championship restarted in 2022 without support of the FIA and simply called MRF Formula 2000, with the field consisting of domestic drivers rather than foreign racers competing over the European and Northern American off-season.

The season began on 17 February 2024 and was run over four weekends until August 2024. Jaden Pariat won the championship after winning eight of the twelve races.

Drivers

The following drivers, all of them Indian-registered, contest the championship:

No.	Driver	Rounds
5	Jaden Pariat	All
6	Chetan Surineni	All
7	Shriya Lohia	3–4
22	Akhil Agarwal	3–4
80	Tarun Muthiaiah	All
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Race calendar and results

Like in the seasons before, the calendar consists only of races held at Madras Motor Race Track. While 2023 saw two championships held, one from late 2022 to early 2023 and one in the later months of 2023, 2024 was to see a five-round continuous championship. The final round, however, was not held.

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Support bill
1	R1	Madras Motor Race Track, Chennai	17 February	Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat	Chetan Surineni	Indian Touring Car National Championship Indian Junior Touring Car National Championship MRF Saloons Formula LGB 1300
	R2		18 February		Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat
	R3				Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat
2	R1		24 February	Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat	Indian Touring Car National Championship Indian Junior Touring Car National Championship Formula LGB 1300
	R2		25 February		Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat
	R3				Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat
3	R1		20 July	Jaden Pariat	Akhil Agarwal	Akhil Agarwal	Indian Touring Car National Championship Indian Junior Touring Car National Championship MRF Saloons Formula LGB 1300
	R2		21 July		Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat
	R3				Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat
4	R1		17 August	Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat	Jaden Pariat	Indian Touring Car National Championship Indian Junior Touring Car National Championship MRF Saloons VW Polo Cup
	R2		18 August		Chetan Surineni	Chetan Surineni
	R3				Chetan Surineni	Chetan Surineni

Season report

Only three cars entered the first round of the season, a low point in series history. Jaden Pariat took pole position in qualifying and built a big lap until he suffered engine failures on the final lap. This handed Chetan Surineni the win, with Tarun Muthiaiah third. Pariat bounced back the next day to take two unchallenged wins and leave the first round leading the championship. Surineni took two distant second places, with Muthiaiah getting disqualified from race two and taking another third in race three.

With the same three drivers contesting round two, Pariat continued his campaign right where he left off: He took pole position for the first race and dominated it to take the win and the fastest lap. He quickly overtook his opponents to win the reversed-grid race two, before winning race three from the front to sweep the weekend. Surineni and Muthiaiah were no match for his pace throughout all three races, with the former taking three second places and the latter three third places as Pariat built up his points lead.

Championship standings

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	25	18	15	12	10	8	6	4	2	1

Pos. Driver CHE1 CHE2 CHE3 CHE4 Points 1 Jaden Pariat 2 1 1 1 1 1 DSQ 1 1 1 2 2 254 2 Chetan Surineni 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 237 3 Tarun Muthiaiah 3 DSQ 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 5 3 154 4 Akhil Agarwal 1 3 3 5 3 5 90 5 Shriya Lohia 4 5 5 4 4 4 68 Pos. Driver CHE1 CHE2 CHE3 CHE4 Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

External links

• Official website