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Industry Insider
ChumpTruck World Series ® Partners With Euro-based TRO( Truck Racing Organisation)
The ChumpTruck World Series, recently formed as a partnership between Fastrucks( Santa Clarita, CA) and ChumpCar International LLC( owner of the ChumpCar World Series ®), announced today that Fabien Calvet, President of TRO( Truck Racing Organisation, headquartered in Wesiwampach, Luxembourg) has joined the company’ s management team as an equity owner. Mr. Calvet will assist ChumpTruck Founders, John Condren and Mike Ryan, with marketing and technical plans.
TRO is the owner and organizer of the Truck Racing Championship, a European-based series that holds road racing events on worldclass race tracks and is sanctioned by the FIA( Federation Internationale de l’ Automobile). The 10-race series attracted over 500,000 spectators in 2012 and has secured television rights that broadcast the big-rig racing events worldwide.
“ Truck racing started in the United Stated in the early 1980’ s,” reports TRO’ s Fabien Calvet.“ However, due to poor management the series lost its direction and soon fell apart. Meanwhile, truck racing has become quite popular and is a tremendous success throughout Europe and South America. I am very pleased to join the ChumpTruck World
Series and help bring truck racing back to the USA. I look forward to assisting John Condren and Mike Ryan with their Business Plan- one that I share a belief in and I know we can execute.”
The ChumpTruck World Series plans to begin road racing events in 2014, with six( 6) 50-mile sprint races per event. Races will be held at world-class tracks and facilities, including Daytona International Speedway, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Portland International Raceway, Virginia International Raceway, Michigan International Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway and Gateway International Raceway. Events will be held on Saturday and Sunday and may even include night road racing. The Series’ rules are posted on the company’ s new website, www. chumptruck. com. The series is open to amateur, semi-pro and professional race teams in the U. S., Canada and Mexico, as well as truck manufacturers and fl eet-based trucking companies.
“ We’ re going to start out slow,” said ChumpTruck co-Founder, Mike Ryan.“ We want to build a series that has a real foundation and is not just a fl ash. We’ re going to target 15 trucks per event in 2014 and build the series from there. Over the last three years, John Condren built the ChumpCar World Series from one event to over 60 events annually, and they have over 8,000 driver members. We’ re going to duplicate that approach and keep both the racing and operating costs under control.”
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