Actor Ajith Kumar, who has been doing the country proud in the world of motorsport and who is currently in Europe, blazing away to glory, has now disclosed how and where he picked up the passion for motorsport.

In an interview to Mashable, the actor, while replying to a question on where and how his passion for racing was born, said, "My first exposure to motor sport happened when I was probably five or six years old in the mid to late seventies. My late father P S Mani, who was in the pharmaceutical industry, worked for a Mumbai- based company. One of his managing directors, there were three of them and one of them whom we used to call Vimal uncle used to race for Vijay Mallya's team. He was very closely associated with a person whom I knew as Chewy uncle, who was one of the leading Tuners. So, you know now where it started."