Kush Maini joins Alpine System 1 group as confirm and reserve driver | Racing Information

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Indian racing driver Kush Maini has been appointed as a reserve driver for the Alpine System 1 group prior to the season opener in Melbourne on March 16. The 24-year-old from Bengaluru, who in the meanwhile races in System 2joined Alpine’s junior program in October 2023 and would possibly now work alongside Franco Colapinto, Paul Aron, and Ryo Hirakawa as reserve drivers.
Alpine outlined Maini’s new duties in a press launch: “Maini’s duties will comprise providing priceless help to the group’s automobile enchancment and set-up aims utilizing the driver-in-loop simulator at Enstone, together with collaborating in its TPC (testing of earlier automobiles) Programme geared in direction of bettering expertise on the wheel of a present, modern System One automobile.”
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System 1 groups have developed from having only one reserve driver all by most of their 75-year historic earlier to now sustaining numerous reserve drivers.
This promotion marks an enormous step for Maini in his pursuit to indicate into the third Indian System 1 Driver After Naraain Karthikeyan and Karun Chandhok.
Maini will proceed racing for DAMS in System 2, coming into his third season which runs alongside choose System 1 occasions. His earlier seasons seen him end eleventh and thirteenth all through the drivers’ standings, securing 5 podiums together with a victory in Hungary.
“Since turning right into a member of the Alpine Academy forward of final 12 months, I’ve been terribly welcomed in the entire Alpine household and I’m grateful to Flavio and Oliver for his or her continued help. I’m trying ahead to getting extra monitor time in System One instruments on this carry out and to assemble on what I’ve already realized with the group in 2024. I am very excited to start the carry out as shortly as doable however for now my focus is on my third season in System 2 kicking off this weekend in Australia,” acknowledged Maini.
Alpine Academy director Julian Rouse praised Maini’s talents: “Kush has impressed the group all by way of his TPC performances and System 2 outcomes whereas we now have been working with him and we depend on he’ll proceed to take movement in 2025. His wider carry out permits us to additional broaden our pool of driving expertise who can present help and useful helpful useful resource to the entire group by the busy season.”