18-year-old Armaan Ebrahim displayed his mastery of wet conditions to take his first Formula Renault V6 race victory at the Sepang circuit in Kuala Lumpur, on Saturday.
Driving for Tara DTM team, Armaan jumped from fourth place on the starting grid to pole position at the second corner and maintained the lead to win the race.
With only four laps to go it started to rain, bringing some nervous moments to Armaan's pit crew.
After having backed off considerably, Armaan opened the gap again in the wet and with just 2 laps to go there was a big crash involving his teammate Hafiz Koh.
This brought the safety car out for the last lap and Armaan took the chequered flag in style behind the safety car.
March Lee from Hong Kong took advantage of the wet in the last few laps and made a very brave move on James Winslow to take second place with Winslow taking the final place on the podium.
After being the quickest in all 3 sessions in free practice, Armaan lost his way a bit in qualifying.
This put a lot of pressure on the young Indian driver, who had nothing but bad luck the previous round after qualifying on pole.
"I basically tried to push too hard in the faster corners and in trying to balance the car for the fast corners we lost our way a bit," Armaan said.
"The others gained 3.5 seconds from practice to qualifying and I was able to gain only 2 seconds. However, I knew I had a good race car and that's all that mattered.
"It feels good to win after all that happened the last round and I want to thank my team and my sponsors [JK Tyres] for standing by me and backing me to the hilt.
"I hope to do well in the second race tomorrow and I will be focusing on the start as I start from the front."
