TORONTO - Last season, Compass360 was locked in a tight battle for the ST-class championship with two guys in a yellow BMW. In the end, those lads (Adam Burrows and Trevor Hopwood) narrowly edged our Acura TSX, becoming champs with a strong third place at VIR (which was better than our 12th place).
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RIVERSIDE, CA—Compass360 Racing and K&N Filters today released details of their partnership for the 2008 racing season. K&N, a leading provider of race and street filter systems, will join Honda of America and Skunk2 as team partners this year.
“We were looking for a partner that understood our market,” explained James Yim, Business Manager at K&N. “Karl Thomson and the guys at Compass360 are in tune with the Street Tuner marketplace, and have competed successfully in Grand-Am for many seasons. They are an ideal fit for us.”
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NORCO, Calif. - Skunk2 is one of Compass360 Racing’s most important technical partners. Located just outside of Los Angeles, they’re one of the leading manufacturers of aftermarket components for sport compact cars, including Hondas and Acuras. The staff, very much like our own, is made up of a bunch of enthusiasts who love nothing more than to make cars go faster!
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BARBADOS - Now that most of our crew has had some much-deserved time off on vacation, it’s my turn for a week in the sun! My wife and I, with our two young kids, are enjoying our first trip to Barbados. Over the past few years, we’ve been making the rounds of the Caribbean islands each March break. Recently, we’ve visited St. Maarten, the Caymans, St. Lucia and the Bahamas. Turks and Caicos and Curacao are next on our list.
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TORONTO-It’s all over the news. There’s another “Winter Storm Warning” plastered on every television here, a little red ribbon of inconvenience running its way along the bottom of everybody’s spanking new widescreen TV (everybody but me, being firmly in the 4:3 until my kids are old enough not to dirty the screen with their little fingers). 
Camp Motorsport today announced the return of Kevin York as Chief Instructor for the 2008 season. York, co-driver of Compass360’s #75 Acura TSX, held the same position at the camp during its inaugural year in 2007. Camp Motorsport—a race car driving sports specialty summer camp for kids ages 10-16 - is a unique fusion of racing school, life-skills development, and traditional summer camp.
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TORONTO-Now that the cars are back in the shop and some of the glow has faded from our great result at the season-opener in Daytona (to recap: all three of our Acura TSXs in the top 10, one of them on the box; and then with the top two cars losing some points in post-race tech, our team leads the team championship, with Travis and I tied for first in the drivers’), I’m reminded that auto racing truly is a team sport.
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Compass360’s Managing Partner, Karl Thomson, has been asked to contribute to Grand-Am’s new media-rich website. His weekly (or possibly bi-weekly) missives will be published as part of the sanctioning body’s push to bring fans close to the series, the teams, the drivers and the personalities that fill the paddock.
Continue ReadingAbout: Compass360 Racing (C360R) is a championship-winning race team that fields front-running Honda Civic Si's in Grand-Am's Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and SCCA Pro's World Challenge.
