Celebrating ten years of Volkswagen Motorsport India in the best way possible: driving its souped-up creations on a racetrack
It’s mildly humid, with clear skies and track temperatures dialled down to “toasty” – not the usual setting for a track day at the Madras Motorsports Race Track (MMRT) in Chennai. The pit lane is decorated with an impressive, heavily decaled Volkswagen Polo, dubbed the “Winter Project”. It’s got a mid-rear-mounted, 1.8-litre turbo-petrol bristling with promise, anti-roll bars, foreboding looks that only one-off, wildcard prototypes tend to have – and, for the moment, it can’t be driven.
Not by delusional motoring hacks, anyway. It needs a trained hand, and Volkswagen’s got professional racers for the job. Volkswagen Motorsport India head Sirish Vissa and his team whipped up this Polo RX, literally, over the winter. And it’s this sort of proficiency that’s made it the only motor sport outfit in India to create an international-grade, FIA-certified race car and racing series.
This story is from the May 2019 edition of GQ India.
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