Archive for February, 2012

Andreas Mikkelsen dominated the Azores!

Published on: February 27th, 2012 by ufficio.stampa - Categories: company and products, our history, races and drivers our partners

Andreas Mikkelsen literally dominated the Azores Rally, the first trial of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge 2012. The current Norwegian champion won ten of the thirteen special races run (in the afternoon of the second leg the PS 8 was cancelled because of the strong rains that battered the archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic. The PS9 was seriously shortened for the same reason). Thus, only the crumbs were left for Juhl Hanninen, who nonetheless ran a good race.

The two of them battled it out, always finishing first and second separated by a maximum of 5”2, but Andreas always got the better of it!
A great start to the season…. And he who starts out well….

THE NEW WEB SITE!!

Published on: February 14th, 2012 by ufficio.stampa - Categories: company and products, our history

On-line the new 2012 WEB SITE, renovated and presentation of content and on the graphic, making you even more ‘simple and intuitive.

In detail some of the major news’:

- PRODUCT CATALOGUE , the new menu that lets you see all the products in the 2012 catalogue, divided by type and class – a practical, fast guide.

- PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT, a new technical area where you can find news and in-depth reports about OMP products, put together with the collaboration of our new R&D department..

- THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS, all the news and photos from POLE POSITION!!

- OTHER APPLICATIONS, this isn’t just about racing and motors, OMP is on soccer fields, in ultra-light aircraft and on military vehicles, an area dedicated to the OMP products used in other sectors. Inside you’ll find a photo gallery of all the soccer teams who use OMP personalized seats for their benches.

- SOME OF OUR PRESTIGIOUS CUSTOMERS, the past and present of OMP represented by logos of some of our most prestigious partners.

- YOU TUBE OMP CHANNEL: our own bona fide OMP channel on the YOUTUBE platform, a collection of videos from races and OMP signature products.

The latest and definitely the most interesting E-SHOP. Design your own shoes and gloves and purchase them on-line.

A real, true on-line design capacity that lets all motor sports fans of pilots and stables personalize their own shoes (DAYTONA style) and gloves (HTG style) by visualizing in 3-D and in real time the personalized items, save them, print them from your computer and purchase them directly online — ‘your product’ designed by ‘your TEAM!”

That ’s just the beginning, you just have to click www.ompracing.it and discover all the news’ of the new site OMP!

SNOW TIME….in Karlstad, Sweden!

Published on: February 13th, 2012 by ufficio.stampa - Categories: company and products, our history, races and drivers our partners

WRC  Rally Sweden,

good eleventh place for S.Ogier – J.Ingrassia on Skoda Fabia S2000, immediately behind the thirteenth place Andreas Mikkelsen (NOR) – Ola Floene (NOR) on SKODA FABIA S2000, VOLKSWAGEN MOTORSPORT and Armindo Araujo (POR) – Miguel Ramalho (POR) on Mini John Cooper Works WRC.

WTCC…grand final!!

Published on: February 12th, 2012 by ufficio.stampa - Categories: company and products, our history, races and drivers our partners - Tags:, , , , ,

The weekend Monza is painted Chevrolet blue!

After the sweet double win in the race 1, where the current world champion preceded his teammate Robert Huff, distancing himself with less than half a second, followed by his eternal rival Gabriele Tarquini in a Seat Leon WTCC of the Lukoil Racing Team.

In race 2 the Cruze 1.6 turbos showed they could do even better by monopolizing the entire podium after an incredible battle that was fought on every lap, but led by the current champion Muller, followed by Menu and Huff.

A spectacular second round, at the first change the three Chevies showed how aggressive they could be, followed by Tarquini’s Seat, a delay in Huff’s braking set off a series hair-raising spins and bangs where it was precisely Tarquini to pay the price, since he could do absolutely nothing to avoid Huff and therefore damaged his Leon, ending up having to pull out of the race.

In race 2 the final fifth place should be pointed out as belonging to Stefano d’Aste on a BMW320 TC, who thus moved into the ranking reserved for Independents, pulling through at the end of a battle with Franz Engstler and Alex MacDowell who fired up the last two laps, really a great race for our pilot of the Wiechers-Sport!!

We can really say that it was a great start to the season for us and for our drivers!!!