He looks upto Max Verstappen for inspiration and likes to be aggressive on the track just like his idol but Saishiva Shankaran from Pune is taking small yet significant steps to move up the motorsports ladder.

The 17-year-old had four podium finishes in the Indian F4 Championship and six podiums in the MRF National Championship 1600 in 2025.

He was also the youngest podium finisher in the 1300cc MRF Championship earlier in his career.

"So, starting out, it was my first generation from switching from karting to single-seater, so it was definitely a tough one (1:45) and with all the, you know, learning how to shift gears on time and, you know, the whole racecraft changing as a whole perspective, if you see, going from karts to single-seaters, so it took me a lot more of sessions and I thi

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