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The 2023 F4 Indian Championship was the inaugural season of the F4 Indian Championship. It was a motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars regulated according to FIA Formula 4 regulations. Initially, the series was planned to launch in 2022, before being postponed multiple times and then finally rescheduled to 2023.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The season commenced on 4 November at the Madras International Circuit and concluded on 17 December at the same circuit.^[5]^[6]

Drivers

All cars were run by MP Motorsport.^[7]

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Chennai Turbo Riders	5	Dion Gowda	2
	17	Rishab Jain	All
	37	Cooper Webster	All
Hyderabad Blackbirds	11	Shahan Ali Mohsin	All
Hyderabad Blackbirds	12	Alex Sawer	All
Goa Aces	23	Arjun Chheda	1–2, 4
Goa Aces	50	Jack Taylor	All
Speed Demons Delhi	25	Rishon Rajeev	All
	92	Shriya Lohia	3
	97	Veer Rajwade	4
Bangalore Speedsters	27	Rohaan Madesh	All
Bangalore Speedsters	28	Nooris Gafoor	1–2
Godspeed Kochi	28	Nooris Gafoor	3–4
	31	Akshay Bohra	All
	97	Salva Marjan	1
	97	Veer Rajwade	2
Source:^[8]

Ahren Manhas was announced to compete but withdrew before the start of the championship.^[9]^[8]

Calendar

All rounds took place in India. Initially, the schedule consisted of 15 races over 5 rounds.^[10] The revised version without any round at Buddh International Circuit was published on 26 October.^[11] In order to comply with the election code of conduct, the first round was moved from Hyderabad Street Circuit to Madras International Circuit.^[12] Further revision was published on 22 November.^[6] In the aftermath of Cyclone Michaung, the round 3 scheduled on 5–6 December at Madras International Circuit was cancelled and the round planned to be held on 9–10 December at the street track Chennai Formula Racing Circuit was postponed and eventually cancelled. Instead, Madras International Circuit once again hosted a round on the same date.^[13]^[14]^[15]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	Winning Team
1	R1	Madras International Circuit, Chennai (Full Circuit)	4 November	Akshay Bohra	Akshay Bohra	Akshay Bohra	Godspeed Kochi
	R2		5 November		Rishon Rajeev	Cooper Webster	Chennai Turbo Riders
	R3		5 November	Akshay Bohra	Akshay Bohra	Cooper Webster^[a]	Chennai Turbo Riders
2	R1	Madras International Circuit, Chennai (Full Circuit)	1 December	Cooper Webster	Dion Gowda	Cooper Webster	Chennai Turbo Riders
	R2		1 December		Rishon Rajeev	Shahan Ali Mohsin	Hyderabad Blackbirds
	R3		2 December	Akshay Bohra	Rishon Rajeev	Dion Gowda	Chennai Turbo Riders
–		Madras International Circuit, Chennai	5–6 December	round cancelled due to Cyclone Michaung
3	R1	Madras International Circuit, Chennai (Short Circuit)	9 December	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Chennai Turbo Riders
	R2		9 December		Cooper Webster	Shahan Ali Mohsin	Hyderabad Blackbirds
	R3		10 December	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Chennai Turbo Riders
	R4				Akshay Bohra	Alex Sawer	Hyderabad Blackbirds
	R5				Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Chennai Turbo Riders
4	R1	Madras International Circuit, Chennai (Full Circuit)	16 December	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Chennai Turbo Riders
	R2		17 December		Rishon Rajeev	Rishon Rajeev	Speed Demons Delhi
	R3			Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Cooper Webster	Chennai Turbo Riders
	R4				Cooper Webster	Shahan Ali Mohsin	Hyderabad Blackbirds

Championship standings

Points were awarded as follows:

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

Drivers' Championship

Pos	Driver	MIC1			MIC2			MIC3					MIC4				Pts
Pos	Driver	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3^[b]	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
1	Cooper Webster	6	1	1	1	2	3	1	4	1	4	1	1	3	1	5	282.5
2	Rishon Rajeev	2	4	4	2	5	4	2	2	3	6	2	4	1	3	3	220
3	Akshay Bohra	1	2	7	3	4	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	Ret	2	4	211
4	Shahan Ali Mohsin	3	3	3	6	1	6	6	1	5	2	5	6	6	6	1	202
5	Alex Sawer	4	10	2	5	3	DNS	4	5	6	1	4	3	2	4	2	186
6	Rohaan Madesh	Ret	6	5	8	7	5	5	6	Ret	9	6	7	4	5	10	90
7	Rishab Jain	5	5	8	WD	WD	WD	7	9†	7	7	9	5	8	7	6	74
8	Jack Taylor	8	8	9	Ret	6	9	9	8	4	5	8	8	Ret	9	7	63
9	Nooris Gafoor	7	9	10	7	8	7	8	7	8	8	7	9	7	10	9	57
10	Arjun Chheda	Ret	7	6	9	DNS	8						10	5	8	8	37
11	Dion Gowda				4	Ret	1										24.5
12	Veer Rajwade				WD	WD	WD						Ret	9	11	11	2
13	Shriya Lohia							10	10	WD	WD	WD					2
–	Salva Marjan	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ													–
Pos	Driver	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3^[b]	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R1	R2	R3	R4	Pts
Pos	Driver	MIC1			MIC2			MIC3					MIC4				Pts

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	Second place
Bronze	Third place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	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
† — Did not finish, but classified

Notes

^ Akshay Bohra finished first but received a 25 seconds time penalty. Webster inherited the win.
^ ^a ^b Half points awarded as race was stopped and not resumed before reaching the required distance for full points due to adverse weather conditions.