India is a key market for F1's future expansion, and Ecclestone acknowledged that Chandhok's arrival was therefore well-timed.
"India is rapidly growing to be one of the most important and powerful players in the world of business, culture and sport and at FOM, we look at India very seriously," he said.
"We have an Indian F1 team on the grid, we will have an Indian Grand Prix thanks to the Jaypee Group in 2011 and so it seems only right that there should be an Indian driver in Formula 1."
1. go out and buy f1 chassis for like $1,000,000
2. steal a whole f1 car from a artic truck during transit and hook up your pc to the f1 car and away you go.