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…
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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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