India seems to becoming closer to securing a Formula E race next season after receiving a letter of intent from the Delhi Government pledging their support for an ePrix in the city of New Delhi.

Mahindra Racing have been working alongside Indian Officials to try and help secure an ePrix in India, and now Mahindra’s Team Principal Dilbagh Gill is confident that a race in New Dehli will take shape.

“There is going to be a race in India,” Gill said. ” The problem is where, but when is easier then where. New Delhi is looking good as the government has given us a letter of intent to give us a race as early as November of this year, or if there is no gap on the calendar there, then it could be early next year.

“So the first thing we did was to try and find a location in Delhi to do the race. So we had a little competition out on Twitter, and we got more than a 100 designs of possible track locations. The good thing is that they want to do the race around the nice part of Delhi, so it is going to be pretty interesting,” Gill said to the Formula E media in Mexico.

Gill is hopeful that they could find out more information on the track location in New Delhi in the next couple of weeks.

“Most of the tracks look interesting, but hopefully, we can find out some more information in the next two to three weeks,” said Gill.

Recently, Punta Del Este place on he calendar has become under threat, despite Formula E hoping to make the Uragayian city their version of the Monaco Grand Prix. The Indian ePrix could become the replacement for that race if India decided to commit fully to the Formula E Championship.