The 2025âÂÂ26 Indian Racing League is a single seater motor racing championship held across India. 2025âÂÂ26 is the fourth season of the championship. It started on 15 August 2025 at Kari Motor Speedway and will run over five race weekends until February of 2026.
All teams are Indian-registered. Drivers were selected via a draft held on 15 July 2025. For the first three rounds, all drivers competed with single-seater Wolf GB08 Thunder cars, fitted with a Aprilia engine. Round four and five saw the series switch to the Alpine-powered Mygale M21-F4 cars used in the F4 Indian Championship.
A new team joined the grid in Kichcha's Kings Bengaluru, led by actor Kiccha Sudeepa. In turn, the Bangalore Speedsters left the championship after entering every season since 2022. The Rarh Bengal Tigers meanwhile changed their name to Kolkata Royal Tigers, thereby returning to the guise under which the team was officially launched in 2024.
The reigning champions, Goa Aces JA Racing, saw Gabriela JÃÂlková join the Hyderabad Blackbirds, while Shahan Ali Mohsin moved over to the Speed Demons Delhi and Sohil Shah was drafted by the Kolkata Royal Tigers. To replace them, the team took on Akash Gowda, who leaves the Delhi-branded team after three seasons, as well as Fabienne Wohlwend, who previously competed for the departing Rarh Bengal Tigers, and Indian F4 graduate Chetan Surineni.
The renamed Kolkata Royal Tigers entered the 2025 season with an all-new lineup after Nikhil Bohra left the championship, Alister Yoong moved to the Speed Demons Delhi, Ruhaan Alva joined the new Kichcha's Kings Bengaluru outfit and Fabienne Wohlwend was signed by the Goa Aces. The team drafted in reining champion Sohil Shah, Chennai Turbo Riders driver Sandeep Kumar, Hyderabad's 2024 substitute driver Tom Canning and debutant Alexandra Hervé, who last competed in the TTE Formula Renault series in 2022.
The Chennai Turbo Riders also have four new drivers after neither Mira Erda nor Emily Duggan returned to the series, Sandeep Kumar moved to the Kolkata Royal Tigers and both Jon Lancaster and Mohamed Ryan joined the Hyderabad Blackbirds. Ex-Hyderabad driver Laura Camps Torras will be the team's only entrant with previous championship experience, as it took on three debutants: reigning Indian Formula 4 champion Aqil Alibhai, radical driver Shibin Yousaf and Formula LGB competitor Tijil Rao.
Two of the departing Bangalore Speedsters' drivers found new berths: Caitlin Wood joined the Speed Demons Delhi and Kyle Kumaran moved to Kichcha's Kings Bengaluru. Both Rishon Rajeev and Julius Dinesen did not return to the championship.
The Speed Demons Delhi drafted three returning drivers to its team after both ÃÂlvaro Parente and Angélique Detavernier left the series and Akash Gowda joined the Goa Aces. Alister Yoong moved over from the Kolkata Royal Tigers, Shahan Ali Mohsin left the Goa Aces to join Delhi and Caitlin Wood joined from the departing Bangalore Speedsters.
The Hyderabad Blackbirds also renewed their whole roster as series mainstays Anindith Reddy and Akhil Rabindra both left after entering every season since 2022, Neel Jani joined Bengaluru and Laura Camps Torras moved to the Chennai Turbo Riders. The team took on a debutant in Formula Regional driver Akshay Bohra, as well as three returnees: Jon Lancaster and Mohamed Ryan moved over from the Chennai Turbo Riders, while Gabriela JÃÂlková left the Goa Aces to join the team.
Debuting team Kichcha's Kings Bengaluru also drafted in three returning drivers and a debutant: Neel Jani, Ruhaan Alva and Kyle Kumaran joined the team after previously competing for the Hyderabad Blackbirds, the Kolkata Royal Tigers and the Bangalore Speedsters, respectively, while sportscar driver Jem Hepworth completed the team's lineup.
Kichcha's Kings Bengaluru changed both drivers of their No. 27 entry after the non-championship opener, with Jani and Alva being replaced by former Formula One test driver Dani Clos and 2022 drivers' champion Akhil Rabindra.
Alva and Jani returned for round two, and Rabindra moved over to the Hyderabad Blackbirds, where he replaced Akshay Bohra. The Chennai Turbo Riders meanwhile replaced Shibin Yousaf with series debutant Viswas Vijayraj, and at the Kolkata Royal Tigers, Tom Canning was absent and replaced by series returnee Julius Dinesen.
Round three saw several driver changes after its postponement by multiple months. Sai Sanjay was replaced by reigning MRF F2000 champion Ishaan Madesh at the Speed Demons Delhi, while Kolkata Royal Tigers' Alexandra Hervé and Julius Dinesen were replaced by GT driver Jemma Moore and returnee Tom Canning. GB3 driver Divy Nandan replaced Akhil Rabindra at the Hyderabad Blackbirds, while Neel Jani's seat at the Kichcha's Kings Bengaluru was filled by Indian F4 runner-up Sachel Rotgé.
The provisional calendar was announced in July of 2025, with the venues of the final two rounds yet to be confirmed. In February 2025, the series confirmed it would host a street race in the state of Goa as part of the 2025 season â this was later added as the third round of the series. In September 2025, the championship announced that another new venue, the Mumbai Street Circuit, would host the season finale in December. The final two rounds were pushed back multiple times, with the penultimate round now scheduled to be held in February of 2026. That penultimate round also saw a change in the weekend format compared to the previous rounds: a third, longer race was held featuring a driver swap in the middle.
Points are awarded to the top ten classified finishers as follows:
Drivers sharing a car add the points they earned in their respective races to a shared total.