Gaurav Gill
Gaurav Gill is a professional rally driver and an Indian motorsports athlete who competes in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship. In 2013, Gaurav Gill became the first Indian driver to win the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and went on to win two more APRC titles in 2016 and 2018. Gill became the first sportsperson from Motorsports to win the coveted Arjuna Award from the President of India in 2019.
Gaurav Gill 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Born | 2 December 1981 |
| World Rally Championship record | |
| Active years | 2007–2019 ( Team MRF ) Years = 2019 current – Jk Tyres |
| Teams | Team MRF, Team Sidvin India, Jk Tyres |
| Rallies | 10 |
| Stage wins | 0 |
| First rally | 2008 Wales Rally GB WRC |
| Last rally | 2019 Rally TURKEY WRC |
| Last updated on: August 2018. | |
Gaurav Gill also holds the record for the highest number of the Indian National Rally Championship titles for four-wheelers along with Naren Kumar. He equaled the record of Kumar by winning his seventh title in 2020. The last four of his seven titles were won with the Mahindra Adventure team with experienced Musa Sherif as his navigator. Gaurav also took part in the World Rally Championship round in Australia in 2018 as an unregistered driver in the WRC2 class driving for new development MRF Tyres, making him the only Indian driver to do so ever.