OMP the Italian company, leader in design and creation of accessories and components for the world of car racing, and JAS Motorsport's Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team have signed an exclusive partnership for the 2013 FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) in the touring category.
On March 24, starting date for the 2013 WTCC with the first trial scheduled on the Italian circuit at Monza, and for all 12 races on the program, the vehicles and pilots of the official Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team will be using safety equipment designed and made at the Ronco Scrivia factory, just outside Genoa.
In detail, the agreement provides for supplying safety equipment (seats, seatbelts, steering wheels, extinguishing system) for the two Honda Civics of the Japanese team and the technical gear (race suits, underwear, gloves, shoes) for Tiago Monteiro and Gabriele Tarquini, the Honda pilots competing this year in the WTCC.
During the championship the super-new OMP seatbelts in Dyneema® will also make their WTCC debut aboard the two Honda team cars. The synthetic fiber Dyneema® is extremely light, and 15 times more resistant with steel traction.
The Italian company holds a worldwide exclusive for use of this material in motorsports.
"The partnership signed with a team of absolute prestige like Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team is a great source of satisfaction and pride for us," stated Paolo Delprato, OMP Managing Director. "We will be giving maximum support to the official Honda team competing in the 2013 World Touring Car Championship, and we are confident that our products can contribute to achieving important results in the race."
"We are very happy to continue the partnership with OMP in the new exciting challenge of WTCC," said Alessandro Mariani, Team Principal Castrol Honda World Touring Car Team and JAS Motorsport Managing Director. "OMP has followed all the project steps since the beginning in 2012, developing special equipment for us and for our drivers. And so this technical co-operation is surely very rewarding which includes also all our activities on behalf Honda."
