The 2023 Indian Racing League was a single seater motor racing championship held across India.^[1] The season was heavily disrupted by Cyclone Michaung making landfall at the Indian east coast.

After three of the planned four rounds were held, the season was concluded early, with the No. 24 Goa Aces car piloted by Raoul Hyman and Sohil Shah winning the Entrant Championship and the Bangalore Speedsters victorious in the Teams' Championship

All drivers competed with single-seater Wolf GB08 Thunder cars, fitted with a 215 bhp (160 kW) Aprilia engine.^[2]

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Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
Hyderabad Blackbirds	1	Akhil Rabindra[3]	All
		Álvaro Parente[4]	1
		Neel Jani[5]	2–3
	9	Laura Camps Torras[6]	All
		Anindith Reddy[7]	All
Godspeed Kochi	2	Nikhil Bohra[8]	All
		Alister Yoong[9]	All
	5	Ruhaan Alva[10]	All
		Fabienne Wohlwend[11]	All
Chennai Turbo Riders	6	Nicole Havrda[12]	1–2
		Mohamed Ryan[13]	All
	33	Jon Lancaster[14]	All
		Sai Sanjay[15]	All
Goa Aces	7	Gabriela Jílková[16]	All
		Amir Sayed[17]	All
	24	Raoul Hyman[18]	All
		Sohil Shah[19]	All
Bangalore Speedsters	16	Ashwin Datta[20]	All
		Oliver Webb[21]	All
	70	Kyle Kumaran[22]	All
		Sarah Moore[23]	All
Speed Demons Delhi	18	Mitchell Gilbert[24]	All
		Sandeep Kumar[25]	All
	22	Akash Gowda[26]	All
		Chloe Chong[27]	2–3

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All events were held in India and were run in tandem with the F4 Indian Championship.

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No.		Circuit	Date	Map of circuit locations
1	R1	Madras International Circuit, Irungattukottai (Full layout)	4 November	Irungattukottai
	R2		5 November
2	R1		1 December
	R2		2 December
3	R1	Madras International Circuit, Irungattukottai (Short layout)	9 December
	R2		10 December

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The 2023 season began as the 2022 season left off – under a cloud of mismanagement, as the first round had to be relocated from the Hyderabad Street Circuit to the Madras International Circuit less than a week before the start of the season due to the knock-on effects of the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election. The first race of the season was postponed by a day due to torrential rain, with Kochi's Ruhaan Alva claiming a lights-to-flag victory as Hyderabad's reigning champion Akhil Rabindra crashed with Alva's teammate Alister Yoong on the opening lap. Bangalore's Sarah Moore became the series' first female race winner in the wet second race, following both Goa's pole-sitter Sohil Shah and Kochi's Nikhil Bohra spinning out of the lead early in the race before Bohra punted Goa's Gabriela Jílková out of the race lead on the final lap.^[38][39]

The second round was heavily disrupted by bad weather - originally, the weekend was supposed to be a double round with four races, but after multiple delays, only two races were held. Goa's Raoul Hyman dominated the first day, claiming pole position by over 1.3 seconds and leading the first race from start to finish. Bangalore's Oliver Webb was his closest opposition, but did not attack him. Hyderabad's Akhil Rabindra came third. Bohra took pole position for the second race, where the start was aborted when Bangalore's Ashwin Datta stalled. Bohra pulled away at the restart, with only Chennai's Jon Lancaster managing to stay close to him, but the Brit was unable to get into the lead. Rabindra completed the podium, while Moore in fourth was able to consolidate a three-point championship lead over Lancaster and Sai Sanjay.^[40]

As Cyclone Michaung then hit India, the third round was relocated from Chennai to Madras. Shah earned pole position for the first race, defended his lead at the start and led until he made a mistake and ran off track. This promoted Bohra into the lead and he did not look back from then on, taking the win. Hyderabad's Anindith Reddy came second, while Lancaster had a brilliant race, starting last and finishing on the podium after overtaking Jílková at the final corner. Webb took pole position for the second race, but Hyman took the lead through the first corner. He held on all throughout the race to win, thereby allowing him and Shah to take the championship lead. Webb had to be content with second, while Hyderabad's Neel Jani came third. As the final two planned races of the season were cancelled, Hyman and Shah took the championship title.^[41][42]

While the season started with little information given by official sources regarding topics like the sporting format, coverage improved throughout the season. The heavy, short-term disruptions posed by the landfall of Cyclone Michaung were handled and communicated well. Still, the reduction from a planned eight-race schedule across three locations down to six races at a single venue hurt the championship, and a champion confirmed away from the track through cancellation of the rest of the rounds is never a good look.