"Alright, let's get to this. We have a lot to cover. This is gonna cover everything from entries to the B-Spect Touring Car Series, to VRR Rolex GT, to B-Spec Super GT Season 2, to drivers, to re-branding, to sponsors. Let's hit the main points, and we'll highlight the most important ones for this series later on. First off, thank you to
WOMB in Sibuya for hosting us tonight.We have the place the entire night, so after all this formal stuff gets taken care of, we can enjoy it!No, let's do this. First off, I would just like to say that RTi and everyone here remains committed to every single series and providing great racing and entertainment for fans around the globe. Now, to better do that, there will be a little bit of re-branding happening. You may have noticed that we have moved from RTi to BlackCat Racing. Well, we have changed again. Our new name will be ThinkPink.org Racing Team. ThinkPink.org is a worldwide site which helps to empower women in their daily lives whether through helping to remove them from unsafe living situations, to helping them find jobs, pay for everyday supplies, graduate school and helping to create scholarships for women in the fields of science and mathematics. With that being said, our goal as a team is to be 100% female led and driven. We already have an impressive lineup of women drivers from around the globe competing in every conceivable form of motorsports. We have Reilly Domingues and Satsuki Matsumoto in VRR IndyLights, Jamie Ngaire-Jardine is our driver in VRR IndyCar racing for Polaris Motorsports this season, and Eifel Tower next season.
And I'm proud to announce the driver list for both the BTCS and SuperGT Season 2. In the Chevy Lacetti touring cars, we have Elise Johannessen of Sweden driving the number 13, and driving the 92 is Eva Libia Paramo of Mexico. In SuperGT, we have 2 cars worth of extremely talented drivers. In the number 80 BMW M6, we have Bettine Bernard of France and Melissa Colton of the United States of America. There have been huge changes over at the 13 camp, with Nissan Customer Racing approaching and offering us the chance to race one of their stellar Nissan GTR GT3 cars. Driving that will be Jung Jon Soo of South Korea and Margit Persson of Norway.
The opportunity to expand so much, have top notch drivers, and cars, as well as the best team out there representing us, takes a lot of resources. That being said, we do have some sad news regarding sponsorship. Unfortunately, Fujitsu have not renewed their secondary sponsorship deal with us. The last year of this deal is 2018 and will see major Fujitsu branding being run on cars for the last time in the 2018 VRR Rolex Endurance Series as well as the 2018 VRR IndyCar series. Fujitsu have remained a part of our corporate partners, however, not to the same level. However, that has given us the opportunity to go out and find another company willing to be a part of the ThinkPink.org team. our new secondary sponsor from 2018 will be Pirtek Fluid Management Systems. Wako's will remain our major partner, however, there will be Pirtek branding on our cars as well. We have found numerous smaller sponsors as well, however, I'll only touch on them briefly. We've signed small deals with Exedy Racing Clutches, StopTech Brakes, Bosch, YouTube, SumoPower, and Martini. We believe that our lineup of sponsors will help to make us an extremely competitive and well-regarded team around the world.
Now, I'm sure that you are all excited to see the cars that we will be using this season. As I said before, we have the Chevy Lacetti Touring car. In SuperGT we have a 2 car effort with both the Nissan GTR and the BMW MG, and in the 2018 VRR Rolex Endurance series, we will be running a GTR as well. I currently only have pictures from the paint shop for our Lacettis as they are about 85% completed at this point, however, I can share what we have:
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Now, that being said, give me about a 5-minute break and I'll show off the brand new SuperGT cars. See you in just a moment!