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TEIN 2012 Motorsports Activity Plans
We, TEIN, hereby would like to announce our plans for motorsports activities in 2012. Through our participation in various motorsports events, both Domestic and International, we would like to further raise TEIN brand awareness and to improve performance and quality of all our products; both for motorsports use and for street use. It is also important for us to contribute to the development of motorsports as well as to the rejuvenation/revitalization of the automotive after-market.
Overseas Motorsports   Domestic Motorsports
FIA Production Car World Rally Championship (PWRC)   Super Taikyu Series (S-Tai)
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)   Japanese Rally Championship (JRC)
China Rally Championship (CRC)   Japan Dirttrial Championship (JDC)
China Touring Car Championship (CTCC)    
China Cross Country Rally (CCR)    
Finnish Rally Championship (FRC)    
 
Overseas Motorsports
FIA Production Car World Rally Championship (PWRC)
 
We won the 2nd place in PWRC for 2 consecutive years in 2010 and 2011. This year, we are providing TYPE Gr.N Damper F.R.S. Spec for Mr. Marcos Ligato's Impreza WRX STi Gr.N (GRB) prepared by TOP RUN MOTORSPORT, Italy. He'll be competing in 6 rounds, starting from the Argentina in April. Together, we aim for the 2012 PWRC Champion!
Round Dates Location
1 Jan 17-22 Rallye Monte-Carlo
2 Mar 8-11 Rally Guanajuato Mexico
3 Apr 27-29 Rally Argentina
4 May 25-27 Acropolis Rally
5 Jun 22-24 Brother Rally New Zealand
6 Aug 24-26 ADAC Rallye Deutschland
7 Oct 18-10/21 Rally d'Italia Sardegna
8 Nov 8-11 Rally RACC Rally de Espana
 
PWRC(2011) PWRC(2011)
PWRC(2011)
 
 
Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC)
 
TEIN is stepping up efforts toward supporting IRC in 2012. TEIN will support Mr. Andreas Aigner, the winner of 2008 PWRC, driving Subaru Impreza WRX STi (GRB) R4 Spec built by STOHL RACING, Austria, with TYPE Gr.N Damper F.R.S. Spec. We go for nothing but the 2012 IRC Production Cup series title.
Round Dates Location
1 Feb 23-25 SATA Rallye Acores, Portugal
2 Mar 15-17 Rally Islas Canarias El Corte Ingles, Spain
3 Apr 6-7 Donnelly Group Circuit of Ireland Rally, Ireland
4 May 11-12 Tour de Corse, France
5 Jun 12-14 Targa Florio-Rally Internazionale Di Sicilia, Italy
6 Jun 21-23 Geko Ypres Rally, Belgium
7 Jul 6-7 Rally San Marino, San Marino
8 Jul 20-22 Sibiu Rally Romania, Romania
9 Aug 31-Sep 2 Barum Czech Rally Slin, Czech Republic
10 Sep 15-16 Prime Yalta Rally, Ukraine
11 Sep 29-30 Rally Sliven, Bulgaria
12 Oct 12-13 Rallye Sanremo, Italy
13 Nov 2-3 Cyprus Rally, Cyprus
 
IRC(2011) IRC(2011)
IRC(2011)
 
 
China Rally Championship (CRC)
 
TEIN has been greatly contributing to the series title wins for 6 consecutive years. This year, we are again providing TYPE Gr.N Damper F.R.S. Spec for Mr. Mark Higgins driving Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (CZ4A) built by GUIZHOU BAILING RACING TEAM. TEIN Dampers are the most-used dampers in CRC, where 10 cars are using TYPE Gr.N Dampers and another 25 are using TYPE HG Dampers.
Round Dates Location
1 Jul 20-22 Gansu ZhangYe
2 Aug 24-26 Beijing HuaiRou
3 Oct 26-28 ZheJiang LongYou
4 Late December Jilin ChangBai Mountain
5 T.B.A. T.B.A.
 
CRC(2011) CRC(2011)
CRC(2011)
 
 
China Rally Championship (CRC)
 
We've won the series title in 2011 CTCC. TEIN continues to provide racing dampers for many vehicles competing this year in CTCC, looking for back-to-back titles. Total of 19 cars are using TEIN Dampers and, just like CRC, our damper is one of the most-used ones in the tournament.
Round Dates Circuit
1 Apr 28-29 Shanghai Int'l Circuit
2 Jun 2-3 Zhuhai Int'l Circuit
3 Jun 16-17 Chengdu Int'l Circuit
4 Jul 7-8 Ordos Int'l Circuit
5 Aug 18-19 Ordos Int'l Circuit
6 Sep 22-23 GuangDong Int'l Circuit
7 Oct 13-14 Shanghai Tianma Circuit
8 Nov 3-4 Shanghai Int'l Circuit
 
CTCC(2011) CTCC(2011)
CTCC(2011)
 
 
China Cross Country Rally (CCR)
 
China Cross Country Rally is fought with AWD vehicles in desert areas and on rough roads; the mixture of long rally raid stages and short rally stages. In 2012, TEIN provides specially designed 4x4 Dampers, aiming to win the championship.
Round Dates Location
1 Mar 8-10 HeiLongJiang Mohe
2 Apr 29-May 5 Yunnan Hudong
3 Late August Neimenggu Badain Jaran
4 Late September XinJiang Taklimakan Cross-Country
 
CCR CCR
CCR
 
 
Finnish Rally Championship (FRC)
 
The returning champion of FRC, Mr. Juha Salo of TEAM MITSUBISHI RALLIART is competing this year again with his Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (CZ4A) equipped with TYPE Gr.N Damper F.R.S. Spec to win the title back-to-back.
Round Dates Location
1 Jan 14 Riihimäki-Ralli, Riihimäki
2 Jan 27-28 Arctic Lapland Rally, Rovaniemi
3 Feb 24-25 SM Vaakuna Ralli, Mikkeli
4 Jun 9 POPPankki SM-Ralli, Lapua
5 Jul 14 SM O.K. Auto-Ralli, Kouvola
6 Aug 18 Satamoto-ralli, Merikarvia
7 Sep 15 Talotekniikka-10 SM-Ralli, Kerava
 
FRC(2011) FRC(2011)
FRC(2011)
 
 
Domestic Motorsports
Super Taikyu Series (S-Tai)
 
In 2011, TEIN-equipped Honda NSX of KOTA RACING won the title in the ST3 class. TEIN is providing TYPE N1 Dampers for OKABE JIDOSHA's Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) in the ST3 class, G-MOTION's Honda Integra Type-R (DC5) in the ST4 class and 4 others, to clinch the title in each and every class.
Round Dates Circuit
1 Mar 24-25 Fuji Speed Way
2 Apr 28-29 TwinRing Motegi
3 May 19-20 Sports Land SUGO
4 Aug 25-26 Okayama Int'l Circuit
5 Oct 20-21 Suzuka Circuit
6 Nov 10-11 Autopolis
 
S-Tai(2011) S-Tai(2011)
S-Tai(2011)
 
 
Japanese Rally Championship (JRC)
 
In JRC, we provide dampers for Mr. Masashi Ishida's and Mr. Fumio Nutahara's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (CZ4A), and Mr. Tak uma Kamada's Subaru Impreze (GRB), to fight in the JN4 class, as well as 7 vehicles in the JN3 class; such as Mr. Tomoyuki Shinkai's popular MelonBooks Honda Integra Type-R (DC2). Winning the series titles in all the classes we participate is our ultimate goal. Also, the president of TEIN, Mr. Hakaru Ichino is participating in JRC JN4 class, as a co-driver of Mr. Yasuhiro Onishi, driving TEIN-equipped Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (CZ4A).
Round Dates Location
1 Apr 6-8 Tour de Kyushu 2012 in Karatsu
2 Apr 28-30 Kuma Kogen Rally, Ehime
3 Jun 1-3 Fukushima MSCC Rally
4 Jun 29-Jul 1 2012ARK Rally Toya, Hokkaido
5 Jul 27-29 Montre Rally 2012 in Shibukawa, Gunma
6 Aug 24-26 Tango Peninsula Rally 2012, Kyoto
7 Sep 14-16 Rally Hokkaido 2012
8 Oct 12-14 M.C.S.C. Rally Highland Masters 2012, Gifu
9 Nov 2-4 Shinjo Rally 2012, Aichi
 
JRC(2011) JRC(2011)
 Photo provided by:NUTAHARA.com / Office North Star
JRC(2011)
 
 
Japan Dirttrial Championship (JDC)
 
 
For JDC, we supply dampers for 8 different cars/entrants; on the top of the list are Mr. Yoshiaki Sumiyama's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (CT9A) and Mr. Tomohide Miyairi's & Mr. Katsuhiko Taguchi's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (CZ4A) in the D class, Mr. Masayuki Akaba's Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution (CZ4A) in the N3 class, and Mr. Hideki Kawashima's Suzuki Swift Sport (ZC32S) in the PN class in which Mr. Kawashima won the championship series for 2 consecutive years in 2010 & 2011. We'll be fighting hard to win the series title in each class.
Round Dates Location
1 Mar 25 Dirt-Trian in Nasu
2 Apr 14-15 Rascal Spring Trial in Kyushu
3 May 27 Hokkaido Dirt Special in Sunagawa
4 Jun 24 Dirt Sprint in Monzen
5 Jul 22 2012 Tohoku Dirttrial in Kiriyanai
6 Sep 1-2 Super Trial in Imajo
7 Oct 6-7 Monte-Carlo Cup Dirttrial in HIroshima
 
JDC(2011) JDC(2011)
 
JDC(2011) JDC(2011)
JDC(2011)
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