TVS Racing has brought into
motor racing the
professional team concept.
It is headed by Mr. Arvind
Pangaonkar, General Manager,
Research and Development,
TVS Motor Company Limited.
He has a 12-member team
comprising Engineers to Post
Graduates who provide
technical support to the
motorbikes and seven of
these professionals travel
with the racers during
competitions. It is no
surprise then that TEAM TVS
Racing is today viewed as
the numero uno of motor
racing in India.
TVS Racing has been
instrumental in churning out
the country's best racers
ever C. Vijaykumar, a
21-year-old lad from
Bangalore, is a prime
example of this. TVS spotted
his talent two years ago in
a TVS Motocross School
organized in Bangalore. He
was just a novice and when
TVS put him through a
training process and groomed
him to take on the Motocross
challenges and today he has
become the best racer the
country has ever produced.
TVS believes in identifying
these talents and grooming
them at an early age thus
making them compete in
events where their real grit
and talent is put to test.
These racers are given state
of the art training
to enable them to gear up to
face International
competition. Presently TVS
Racing team comprises 9
professional riders with
most of them being ace
riders in the country in
various classes.
International Trainers For TVS
TVS Racing team members have
used the services of two
renowned international
trainers in the past. They
have proved very
constructive to TVS Riders
and have enabled them to
increase their riding
skills. TVS Riders have
practiced at international
race tracks recommended by
the trainers in Australia,
Italy and Philippines.
GLENN AGUILAR, lead rider of
the Caltex Revtex-KTM
motocross team, has achieved
what no one in the
Philippines has ever
achieved. Glenn has been
winning the rider of the
year, for Pro 125 CC
category of the National
Motocross Super Series for 7
years. Glenn formed his
racing team in 1999, with
Bebet dela Cruz, his second
stringer who is now number
five in the rankings. They
are supported by Caltex for
sponsorship to enable them
to churn out the best
talent. It turned out that
their team produced good
racers under Glenn's
leadership and put Caltex
into the motocross circuit
in the region in a big way.
PAUL BROOMFIELD, 28-year-old
Australian is a professional
racer is presently part of
Kawasaki racing team in
Australia. His experience as
a rider dates him back to
Suzuki, Yamaha and Kawasaki
racing teams and has earned
him a slot as professionally
ranked riders competing on
the Australian pro motocross
circuit. He turned
professional in 1998 and in
2003 achieved Supercross Pro
Open 9th / Motocross Pro
Open 4th / Thumper Nats Pro
Open 7th place. His aim is
to earn a podium position in
the supercross national
series 2004.
He was credited with being
level 2 riding coach of the
Yamaha Academy of Off-Road
Riding instructors. He was
also engaged by them to
contest in the prestigious
SX national series as well.
