CEAT Racing Team revs up with 16 podium finishes at Foxhill

April 22, 2015

In its first competitive outing of the 2015 season, the CEAT Racing Team secured 16 podium finishes at the Foxhill Supercross in Diyatalawa, signaling its intent to continue the form that gave it the car team championship last year.

Members of the CEAT Racing Team were placed second in two events, third in three events, fourth in eight and fifth in three at this race meet, with nine of the 11 racers securing podium finishes in their events.

Three of the team’s 16 podium finishes were achieved by UpulwanSerasinghe (Group SL-N Ford Laser/Mazda 1300cc, and Group SL-H1600cc races 1 and 2), while ShashikaLakmalWijerathna, Janaka Dias, UshanPerera, LalinKirinda andmotorcycle racer Jacques Gunawardanasecured two podium finishes each.

“This is a solid start to the year’s racing for the CEAT team and for its individual drivers,” said Ravi Dadlani, Vice President Sales & Marketing at CEAT Kelani Holdings. “We are confident of an even stronger performance as the racing season progresses.”

The CEAT Racing Team for the 2015 racing season comprises of ace drivers UpulwanSerasinghe, Janaka Dias, Pasindu Peiris, UshanPerera, ShashikaLakmalWijerathna, LalinKirinda, Prasanna De Alwis, Lt. Colonel DumindaJayasinghe, Lt. Colonel InduSamarakoon and motorcycle racers Jacques Gunawardana and Sampath Kumara.

The team will race under CEAT colours at the six race meets to be conducted by the Sri Lanka Auto-sports Drivers Association (SLADA), for the 2015 CEAT SLADA Championship. The six race meets are the just concluded FoxhillSupercross, SigiriyaSupercross (16th – 17th May), Cavalry Supercross (13th – 14th June), Gunners’ Supercross (4th – 5th July), GajabaSupercross (29th – 30th August), and the Rotherham Katukurunda Circuit Meet (17th – 18th October).

These race meets include the Ford Laser/Mazda 1300cc and 1500cc ‘One Make’ racing events, at which all competing drivers race on CEAT radial tyres. CEAT Kelani Holdings is the principal sponsor of these One Make races.

A global tyre brand whose credentials are built on performance, CEAT is the highest-selling brand in Sri Lanka’s radial tyre market. Present in 110 countries and now headquartered in India, CEAT is an acronym that stands for CaviElectriciAffini Torino, or Electrical Cables & Allied Products of Turin, with origins that date back to 1924 in Italy.