<p>Bengaluru lad Akhil Rabindra with his teammate Florian Thoma finished fifth in Race 2 at the Circuit Paul Ricard – Le Castellet, France in the GT4 European series on June 2. </p>.<p>In a chat with Metrolife, he describes how he got interested in racing. </p>.<p>“My interest in racing is just my genuine passion for cars and speed. When I was young I would like to go in a car and when someone went a little bit faster I used to get happy,” he says. What started from driving Go Karts, Akhil moved on to drive formula cars. He elaborates, “Back then, the only car I could drive was the rental Go Karting, so, that’s the only time I could get my foot on the accelerator pedal and press it as hard as I can, which gave me a lot of happiness. Starting from there, we went to professional Go Karting, where obviously the Go Karts were faster and you are competing with other people.</p>.<p>Moving onto formula cars, it’s a completely different world; the whole dimension suddenly is five times bigger. It’s even faster from other cars and a whole different style of driving. So, I have enjoyed all the different cars. They all stem from my deep passion for speed, racing and high performance.”</p>.<p>Talking about his performance at the GT4 series, he says “I think my performance has been alright. It’s a different kind of championship with a different driving style and schedule of racing, where one learns a lot and one also makes mistakes. There is definitely a space to improve and to go a little faster and try to win more races.” Akhil is looking to do GT3 (which is a step above GT4) in 2020.</p>
<p>Bengaluru lad Akhil Rabindra with his teammate Florian Thoma finished fifth in Race 2 at the Circuit Paul Ricard – Le Castellet, France in the GT4 European series on June 2. </p>.<p>In a chat with Metrolife, he describes how he got interested in racing. </p>.<p>“My interest in racing is just my genuine passion for cars and speed. When I was young I would like to go in a car and when someone went a little bit faster I used to get happy,” he says. What started from driving Go Karts, Akhil moved on to drive formula cars. He elaborates, “Back then, the only car I could drive was the rental Go Karting, so, that’s the only time I could get my foot on the accelerator pedal and press it as hard as I can, which gave me a lot of happiness. Starting from there, we went to professional Go Karting, where obviously the Go Karts were faster and you are competing with other people.</p>.<p>Moving onto formula cars, it’s a completely different world; the whole dimension suddenly is five times bigger. It’s even faster from other cars and a whole different style of driving. So, I have enjoyed all the different cars. They all stem from my deep passion for speed, racing and high performance.”</p>.<p>Talking about his performance at the GT4 series, he says “I think my performance has been alright. It’s a different kind of championship with a different driving style and schedule of racing, where one learns a lot and one also makes mistakes. There is definitely a space to improve and to go a little faster and try to win more races.” Akhil is looking to do GT3 (which is a step above GT4) in 2020.</p>