This is our most detailed conversation yet with Kush Maini, Alpine’s F1 Reserve Driver and the only Indian to win at Monaco in F2.In this episode, Soumil Arora sits down with Kush Maini and his father, Gautam Maini to unpack the full story behind his 2025 season — from the Sprint win at Monaco to his evolving race craft, training mindset, and what it really takes to move from talent to title contender in the F1 feeder system.This isn’t your standard “how do you feel after a win?” interview. We go deeper:The technical + psychological edge Kush brings to qualifyingThe decision to join DAMS and why that move paid offGrowing up racing alongside Arjun Maini, and how the family built two careers from scratchWhy a lack of testing made him faster, not slowerThe gap between Asian and European motorsport prep — and how they closed it
