MRF Racing MRF built its first
Formula 3 car in 1997. MRF in collaboration with
Maruti established the
Formula Maruti racing, a single-seater, open wheel class motorsport racing event for race cars made in India. MRF has sponsored Indian racing drivers including
Narain Karthikeyan,
Karun Chandok,
Ashwin Sundar,
N. Leelakrishnan and
Raj Bharath.
MRF rally team MRF is the first and only Indian manufacturer to have won the Team Championship at the prestigious FIA European Rally Championship, not once, but twice in 2022 and 2023. MRF have also been a long-running sponsor of an MRF rally team participating in the
Asia-Pacific Rally Championship and
Indian National Rally Championship. Associating with Czech car manufacturer
Škoda, MRF Skoda is the three time reigning champion in the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship with
Chris Atkinson winning in
2012,
Gaurav Gill in
2013,
Jan Kopecký in
2014,
Pontus Tidemand in
2015 and Gaurav Gill again in
2016 and
2017. MRF also participates in
Raid De Himalaya, the world's highest rally. MRF entered the
European Rally Championship in
2020, with WRC
Hyundai driver
Craig Breen and Emil Lindholm driving for the team. MRF remained in ERC for 2021 and also joined several other rally championships.
Craig Breen, along with Italian Simone Campedelli are set to participate in
European Rally Championship. Campedelli, along with eleven-time Italian rally champion
Paolo Andreucci and the 2017 ERC Ladies champion
Tamara Molinaro will use the tyres while competing in the Italy Gravel rally championship. Emil Lindholm left ERC and instead will focus entirely on testing the tyres on the gravel roads of Finland. After the 2021 Rally di Roma Capitale, Breen was replaced by other
Hyundai drivers,
Jari Huttunen and
Dani Sordo, as well as
Nil Solans later on. MRF entered Norbert Herczig, Simone Campedelli and the 2021 runner-up
Efren Llarena for the 2022 campaign, with Llarena taking his first win during 2022 Rallye Azores. In
2023, Team MRF Tyres successfully defended their FIA European Rally Championship (ERC) Teams’ title with a dominant performance. Latvian driver
Martins Sesks, alongside co-driver
Renars Francis, secured back-to-back victories at Rally Poland and Rally Liepaja, making Sesks the only driver to win multiple rallies that season. Additional podium finishes by teammates Efrén Llarena and Sara Fernández at Rally Islas Canarias, and consistent performances from Simone Campedelli and Tania Canton, contributed to the team’s success. MRF Tyres clinched the championship with two rounds to spare, finishing 54 points ahead of their nearest rivals,
BRC Racing Team. The
2024 season presented new challenges for Team MRF Tyres, who ultimately finished second in the ERC Teams’ Championship with 167 points, trailing BRC Racing Team. Despite the setback, the team celebrated a significant victory at the season finale, Rally Silesia in Poland, where Italian driver Andrea Mabellini and co-driver Virginia Lenzi claimed their maiden ERC win. Mabellini’s triumph was particularly noteworthy, as he became the first Italian in 13 years to win a European rally outside Italy.
MRF Motocross MRF promotes a national motocross championship, a form of all-terrain two wheeler racing held on enclosed off-road circuits annually across several cities.
MRF Karting MRF sponsors major
karting championships in India. MRF is the first Indian tyre company to develop
FIA approved karting tyres. ==Cricket==