How Indians performed over the weekend (9-11 June)

Result: Fifth & sixth

However, the atmosphere in the Indian outfit’s garage was particularly tensed after a row between drivers Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon,

Ocon, on much fresher tyres, wanted Perez to let him through to chase down Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo for the final spot on the podium.

The Mexican, however, wasn’t too impressed with the idea and refused to give way to Ocon, saying he himself had the pace to overtake Ricciardo.

The lack of agreement between the two ultimately proved costly for the team, as Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was able to pass both on a two-stop strategy.

Perez and Ocon eventually crossed the line in fifth and sixth places respectively.

Best finish: 14th

Mahindra’s Moto3 arm returned to points in the Barcelona round of the championship, with CIP’s Marco Bezzecchi finishing 14th.

Bezzecchi made a rocketing start from 25th on the grid to move up to 20th position, before scything his way further through traffic to put himself in contention of scoring points.

On the final lap, the 18-year-old overtook three riders in one corner to finish as the top rookie in 14th.

Best finish: Third

Ameya Vaidyanathan scored his third podium of the 2017 EuroFormula Open season at Paul Ricard.

After starting from fourth on the grid, Vaidyanathan passed Fortec’s Jannes Fittje on Lap 7 to take the final podium spot in Race 1.

The 20-year-old came close to repeating that result in the second race of the weekend, but ultimately fell short by just 0.6 seconds.

Best finish: 11th

Tarun Reddy endured a miserable weekend at Paul Ricard, failing to score a single point in the third round of EF Open.

Reddy’s first race ended in first 50 metres after he damaged his suspension in a startline crash.

In Race 2, the British F3 graduate failed to make an impression, finishing 11th after starting from the sixth row of the grid.

Result: Fifth in class

Akhil Rabindra and Garage 59 teammate Dean Macdonald finished fifth among the Silver Cup GT4 runners (and ninth overall in GT4) in British GT’s blue-riband race at Silverstone.

Rabindra lost places early in the race, but managed to recover towards the latter part of his stint. Macdonald carried on the good work when he took over the reins of the McLaren 570S GT4, but failed to continue his and Rabindra's podium streak.

Best finish (ninth)

A guest outing in German F4 marked a missed opportunity for Kush Maini, who could secure a best result of ninth despite showing promising pace all weekend.

After suffering a puncture during qualifying which left him 25th on the grid for Race 1, Maini climbed up the field to finish inside the top 10 in ninth.

However, that would turn out to be his best result of the weekend. In Race 2, a drive through penalty dropped him outside the top 20, while the possibility of a podium finish in the third race was evaporated when he spun while running in second place.

Best result: Third in class

Former European Formula 3 driver Mahaveer Raghunathan scored a double podium finish in the Paul Ricard round of Boss GP.

He finished third in class in both races to strengthen his second position in the championship.