These cars finished 1,2 and 3 in a race held recently. Which race?
(Sorry about the badly mutilated images.. they had their logo everywhere )

2.

Hint: Take a close look at the driver’s seat.

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srikanth, 2ndratequizzer, alephnull, Teju, Shreyas, yaksha, MGS, Mahesh, Biki, nihit, Tathagata Chatterjee, Vinod P.V, VikraM, vijayaraghavan, Rahul Ranade, BiGFooT, prasanth, Ganesh Prasad, Gammafunction, udupendra, jayanth and shivathilak