Pakistani leads the way in electric motor racing

LONDON: A British Pakistani entrepreneur is leading the way in clean emission motorcycle race, known as TTXGP eGrandPrix.
Azhar Hussain, the founder and CEO of TTXGP eGrandPrix was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday List 2011 with an MBE for motor sports for the world’s first sanctioned zero carbon, clean emission international electric motorcycle race series which is now in its third year and running in three continents.
Azhar Hussain told ‘The News’ that he moved from electronics in 2009 to start the electric motor racing after he realised “the future belongs to the electric technology”.
Hussain says that motor racing is a milestone for sports and transportation and the technology involved is evolving all the time and motor cycles have changed every year. Hussain says Pakistan needs to catch up and seriously think about joining the sports by sending its riders. India, China, Australia, Germany, Sweden, Canada and Japan participate in the TTXGP every year.