Tata Technologies, a leading provider of engineering and IT services, will own one of the six teams in the T1 Prima Truck Racing championship, India's first ever commercial vehicle racing event, to be held at Buddh International Circuit on Sunday.
Tata Technologies Motorsport team will be represented by two British drivers -- David Jenkins, the 2011 Division 1 champion of the British Truck Racing Association (BRTA) and Brain Burt, last year's Division 2 second placed driver in BRTA, will drive for TTM.
Tata Castrol Vecton and Team Cummins are the other two teams while the remaining three are yet to be announced.
The series is owned by Tata Motors and is organised under the aegis of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India (FMSCI).
The specially built trucks, powered by 370bhp, can touch a maximum speed of 110kph. The championship will feature 12 Tata Prima trucks in six teams.
Commenting on their association with the racing event, Patrick McGoldrick, MD&CEO, Tata Technologies said, "We are honoured to support this exciting new development in the Indian motorsport arena. We welcome this opportunity to demonstrate Tata Technologies' advanced automotive engineering & design capabilities and reinforce our long-standing commitment to superior product development for the commercial vehicles industry."
Ravi Pisharody, Executive Director, Commercial Vehicles, Tata Motors said they value Tata Technologies' commitment and the unique strengths that it's engineers bring to our global product development programs.
"Tata Technologies has consistently served Tata Motors as the preferred partner for automotive engineering and IT and contributed significantly to all commercial vehicle platforms including the Prima range," Pisharody said.
