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Nationality | Indian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Chennai, India | 2 June 1996||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Petronas Mie VisionTrack Racing Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kadai Yaseen Ahamed (born 2 June 1996 in Chennai, India) is a professional motorcycle road racer and the 2021 Indian national champion in the Pro-Stock 301 to 400cc class. [1] [2] He rides for Petronas TVS Racing team. He became the first Indian rider to take part in Moto3 on 24 September 2023 as a wild card entry. [3]
Ahamed made his debut in the Moto3 class [4] at the Grand Prix of India when MotoGP held its inaugural race in India at the Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida, near New Delhi from September 22 to 24. [5] The Indian got a wildcard to race for the Petronas MIE Racing Vision Track Racing team in the Moto3 category and he was astride a Honda NSF250R. [6] However, another Chennai rider S Sarath Kumar took part in the 125cc World Championship in 2011 for the WTR Ten10 Racing Team. Ahamed took part in the qualifying session but failed to set a qualifying time [7] enough to line up for the main race on Sunday.
Ahamed and Rajiv Sethu were nominated for the trials in Japan by Indian federation FMSCI. After a one week camp under former Moto2 rider Tetsuta Nagashima, Ahamed was selected. [8] He is now preparing for the MotoGP weekend under the guidance of Indonesian Doni Tata Pradita at Yogyakarta. [9]
Ahamed did his schooling at the Hindu High School in Chennai. He was spotted racing on the roads at Triplicane by Jagan Kumar, multiple Indian champion and he introduced him to track racing in 2012. Initially, his family was reluctant to allow him go racing but Jagan convinced them about the safety of racing on the closed circuits. [10]
He currently competes in the MMSC FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship in the Supersport Indian165cc and the Pro-Stock 301 to 400cc classes. He won the 125cc Novice title in the 2013 and became the National champion in the Pro-Stock 301 to 400cc class in 2020. [10]
In 2020, he was also selected to represent TVS Racing for a full season in the Asian Road Racing Championship. [11]
Season | Class | Motorcycle | Team | Race | Win | Podium | Pole | FLap | Pts | Plcd |
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2023 | Moto3 | Honda | Petronas Mie VisionTrack Racing Team | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC |
Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Class | Seasons | 1st GP | Race | Win | Podiums | Pole | FLap | Pts | WChmp |
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Moto3 | 2023 | 2023 Indian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Class | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Pos | Pts |
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2023 | Moto3 | Honda | POR | ARG | AME | SPA | FRA | ITA | GER | NED | GBR | AUT | CAT | RSM | IND DNQ | JPN | INA | AUS | THA | MAL | QAT | VAL | NC | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Year | Bike | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pos | Pts | ||||||
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R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | ||||
2024 | TVS Apache RR310 | CHA 12 | CHA 9 | ZHU Ret | ZHU C | MOT 12 | MOT Ret | MAN 12 | MAN 10 | SEP Ret | SEP 7 | CHA 10 | CHA 11 | 12th | 45 |
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