Chennai, Oct 18: In a good tiding for Indian motor sport, the two warring groups, Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI) and the Motorsports Association of India (MAI) buried their four-year old differences at the general assembly meeting of the Federation Internationale De Automobile (FIA), the governing body for the sport in the world. These two Indian federatons have reached the beginnings of a settlement in Paris at the FIA general assembly on Thursday and the formal agreement between them would be executed shortly, after few other aspects of technical formalities were sorted out by their general council members.
While Vicky Chandhok, president of FMSCI and other council members of this federation were tight lipped on the whole episode, P S Raman, counsel of the FMSCI said 'in effect the contents of the MAI statement is correct that FMSCI has to run its events on permit and license by the MAI, if FMSCI is to conduct events under FIA code.'
Raman explained that 'competitions for four wheelers organised by FMSCI in any part of India will be held with joint logo in the permits and licenses by both these federations'.
He said that 'there has been a handshake. FIA has advised the fmsci to adhere to the understanding and asked MAI to cooperate with the FMSCI'.
Bureau Report