5 Things you need to know about the Indian GP

1) The first lap on a F1 race weekend was made by an Indian driver

Karun Chandok on that historic first lap

Karun Chandok – yes the guy whose doing commentary these days was the first driver to get onto the track and set a proper lap time in an F1 car on the fresh tarmac of the BIC. Chandok who was there as a test driver for Lotus that year and soon handed over the reins of Lotus back to Lotus’s race driver Heikki Kovalainen for the rest of the weekend.