10 Facts About 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.

Gaurav Gill holds the record for the highest number of the Indian National Rally Championship titles for four-wheelers along with Naren Kumar.

Gaurav Gill equaled the record of Kumar by winning his seventh title in 2020.

Gaurav Gill 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.

Gaurav Gill got into motorsport racing motorbikes and competed in the National Motocross Championship in 1999.

Gaurav Gill moved to 4-wheel racing and started competing in car rallies and endurance races.

Gaurav Gill was runner-up in the National Road Racing Championship in 2003 and won the title in the following year.

In 2007, Gaurav Gill won the Indian National Rally Championship with Team MRF and made his debut at the Asia Pacific Rally Championship.

Gaurav Gill finished runner up in the APRC in 2012 and became the first Indian to win the title in 2013 for Team MRF Skoda.