After a month hiatus, REM will be travelling to Trois Rivieres Quebec for the only street course of the season. This event brings much excitement and is ranked one of the most coveted races to win. Through the month of July, REM has been doing some serious testing to ensure that the highest level of preparation is achieved. REM will be bringing a group of 6 drivers to the event, slightly smaller than the previous events but surely boasting a high level of talent. REM will have 3 Rotax competitors and 3 Briggs drivers. With a good chance to claim podiums this weekend REM will be pushing their drivers to the maximum potential for the week. The list of drivers for REM is as follows: Briggs Masters: Scott Jefferie Robert Jefferies Wally Poll Rotax Micro Max: Liams Rhodes Rotax Max Senior: Kieran Oxley Kevin Monteith Coming off a solid weekend at goodwood the Jefferies brothers will be pushing to improve on their found success on the street course this weekend Wally Pollo will be making his return to the team and pushing hard to secure a podium result this event. Liam Rhodes had a good weekend Read more…
REM is coming off a long weekend of racing at the Eastern Canadian Karting Championship. The race was held at Goodwood Kartways who hosted rounds 3&4 of the championship. REM hosted a very large team of drivers with the count at 16 for the weekend’s festivities. With hot temperatures and a large amount of drivers teams began to see the rubber c ome down at a very rapid pace making everyone work hard to keep up to the ever changing track but REM managed the conditions quite well. On Saturday, Round one of the weekend began and REM drivers showed good pace in the morning practice and qualifying sessions. In Briggs Senior Kyle Edgar lead the team to a solid 8th place qualifying attempt only two tenths off the pole time. REM also found the Jefferies brothers of Scott and Rob starting up front with third and fourth starting positions. The team micro max competitor of Liam Rhodes also will come out of qualifying with a decent result starting seventh for the pre final. Finally, in the Rotax Senior category, Kevin Monteith puts up the fourth fastest time in the class. After the pre finals finished, drivers began preparation for the finals. Read more…
After a few week break following the ECKC event in Mosport REM now gets back to action as they head to the Coupe Du Quebec race this weekend in SRA Karting. REM will be travelling to the event in support of four drivers. All of these drivers are relatively new to the sport and are looking to gain knowledge and hone their skill sets to become a true force at the front of their respective categories. The 4 drivers that will be competing under the REM Banner are: Wally Pollo – Wally has many years of experience and will be looking to take home the win in Briggs senior. James Kouri – James, who is relatively new to the sport will be looking to gain knowledge from the REM specialists as his driving skills will be critiqued all weekend long. Robert Jefferies – Coming off a strong run at Mosport, and competing in the top 5; Rob looks to bring home a podium finish and solidify his position as a front runner Scott Jefferies – Scott, who again is very new to the sport is looking to gain much needed experience. He also came off a shoulder injury that forced Read more…
This past weekend REM attends the Auto show in Barrie. The event brings great publicity to REM as a race team but also generates more awareness to the sport. “This was the first show that REM has attended and we feel that everything went quite well. This was a great opportunity to generate some much needed awareness to the sport as a whole” stated Kevin Monteith, team principle at REM. The show was held at the Georgian College campus in Barrie, and was treated with comfortable weather all weekend long. Thousands of people flooded the facility to take part in the 29th Annual show and what a treat it was for all the fans who came out to enjoy the show. The show ran from Friday until Sunday with many people coming in to take part in the event. REM attended the event with a long time previous customer named Rui Teixeira. Rui has now moved into car racing and is beginning to make a name for himself in the Canadian Touring Car Championship. Rui partook in his first two races in the series a few weeks ago in Mosport and took home a 3rd and 2nd place finishes respectively. Read more…
REM is coming off an odd weekend filled with positives and some negatives throughout the weekend. The team began testing early in the week of the race because threatening weather was predicted for the Thursday and Friday practice sessions. Of course, mother nature limited the amount of track time that any driver could see in dry conditions. Although the limited practice sessions, REM still found some of the teams drivers scattered throughout the top ten with some solid opportunities for improvement during the course of the weekend. On Saturday, the weather was quite cold forcing our drivers to alter their setups to get the most out of their equipment. As qualifying came, REM was able to salvage a few great starting positions for the start of the prefinal. In briggs Masters Robert Jefferies secured a solid starting spot with a 9th place. In Rotax Senior Kieran Oxley would have to settle for a 17th place, Taylor Gates demonstrates a strong position in 8th and Kevin Monteith will roll off 4th. In Micro max, REM’s single competitor, Liam Rhodes qualified 6th. In the prefinal, all attention would be turned to Taylor Gates as he gets involved in, arguably one of the Read more…
On the wake of the 2014 Canadian Karting Campaign, following a long offseason, Racing Edge Motorsports is set to expand once again. Going off a year of race wins and great momentum in 2013; REM is set to take on the challenges that 2014 has in store. REM is looking for the highest quality results that can be posted during the season which meant hard work and dedication throughout the off season. This time the expanse is developed in the engine department. Few the first few years of the business the team has been outsourcing all engine needs to two different builders, one for all two cycle needs, and on for the four cycle development. For 2014 the team will be servicing all Rotax and Briggs and Stratton engines in house. This gives the opportunity for team organization to be improved to an even higher level than what is currently being achieved. REM and all their employee’s are convinced that the engine program will be second-to-none and offer some of the best performance on the market. During the past winter, Kevin Monteith, owner and chief of operations at REM, approached Glenn Butler who has been the long time engine builder Read more…
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