Trackhouse and Gulf Oil International Limited Partners in the MotoGP World Championship

Trackhouse MotoGP Team is excited to announce a new partnership with Gulf, the well-known brand and global manufacturer and supplier of performance lubricants and associated products, for the 2025 season and beyond.

Trackhouse Racing, the American team that entered the MotoGP World Championship at the beginning of the 2024 season, starts its second year in the premier class of motorcycle racing and will be carrying the iconic Gulf logo on its Aprilia RS-GP25 bikes, as well as the race suits of its riders, #25 Raul Fernandez and Moto2 World Champion, #79 Ai Ogura during the 2025 season.

Together, Trackhouse Racing and Gulf will write the next chapter of Gulf’s iconic motorsport story that will be showcased in the MotoGP World Championship with a variety of high-profile marketing initiatives, helping to bring fans of Trackhouse Racing, Gulf and MotoGP closer to the sport they love. Since the mid-sixties, the Gulf brand has defined some of the most famous, enduring and recognized motorsports stories

Trackhouse, the young progressive organization who have taken the world of motorsports by storm as a multi-race winner in the NASCAR Cup Series, has come to the world of motorcycle racing with a fresh, dynamic, approach giving fans access to its riders and racing activities with entertaining content and a blend of fun, behind-the-scenes stories and unique insights into the daily life of an elite racing team. The Trackhouse organization takes competition extremely seriously and the business of winning is its ultimate objective but, enjoying racing is at its heart and Gulf shares the same ethos – motorcycling is about passion and feeling the open road and this partnership reflects the joint desire to make life on two-wheels the essence of its forward-looking digital connections.

Mike Jones, CEO – Gulf Oil International UK Limited: “Gulf has a rich history in motorsport, and we are excited to continue this history by partnering with a motorcycle racing team as ambitious and dynamic as Trackhouse Racing. Together, we share a joint vision of placing fans at the heart of everything we do and bringing them closer to the action through our partnership. We are looking forward to creating a real impact together in MotoGP and seeing where this next chapter in our iconic motorsport story takes us.”

Justin Marks, Owner – Trackhouse MotoGP Team: “It is truly an honor and a big moment for the Trackhouse MotoGP Team to welcome Gulf as a major partner. Gulf’s iconic brand has graced some of the most memorable and significant motorsport efforts in history and for their orange disc logo to be featured on our Aprilia RS-GP25’s is incredibly exciting for the company. We look forward to bringing the Gulf brand to life in global motorcycle racing and its millions of fans.”

More news about the Gulf and Trackhouse Racing partnership plans will be published in the coming weeks.

Welcome to the House – Gulf.

About Gulf Oil International Limited (Gulf):

Gulf, a wholly owned entity of the Hinduja Group, is one of the largest privately-owned downstream companies, with a presence in over 60 countries worldwide. Operating since 1901, Gulf’s history is one of innovation, with a pioneering spirit that still guides the brand today.

Gulf’s core business is manufacturing and marketing an extensive range of performance lubricants and associated products across a diverse range of market segments.

Gulf also licenses national fuel retail networks around the globe and is currently present in over 18 countries with more than 1,250 stations. Gulf has a strong international presence in Europe, South America, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region, owning blending facilities and several licensed plants worldwide. It is the majority shareholder in Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd, listed on the BSE. Gulf’s business also includes Gulf Marine, which supplies lubricants to the global shipping industry across 1,100 ports worldwide.

For more information visit: www.gulfoilltd.com

Trackhouse MotoGP Team:

 Trackhouse Entertainment Group owner Justin Marks announced, back in December 2023, that his organization will field a MotoGP World Championship team in 2024, a move expanding its reach across the global motorsports world and building on its success in the NASCAR series. Just six weeks later the Team pulled back the curtains on its season-opening design with two of its Aprilia MotoGP prototype bikes and introduced #88 Miguel Oliveira and #25 Raul Fernandez as its pilots. One week later, Trackhouse Racing MotoGP rolled out onto its pit-road debut at Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia.

Entering its sophomore year in the premier league of two-wheel racing, the Trackhouse MotoGP Team continues with 24-year-old #25 Raul Fernandez who, from the age of 11 years old, learnt his early race-craft on the tracks around Madrid. As a rookie in the intermediate Moto 2 class Raul took eight victories and only just missed out on the 2021 Championship crown. Moving up to MotoGP in 2022, Raul signed for the Aprilia Factory in 2023 and joined the new Trackhouse team at its launch in 2024. After another learning year on the RS-GP Aprilia, Raul signed for two further years with Trackhouse and will be the only rider with previous racing experience of the bike as the 2025 season commences.

Mid-year of its first season, the Trackhouse MotoGP Team demonstrated its commitment to young developing talent and its ambitions for the future by signing Ai Ogura on a two-year deal. The brightest star to emerge from Japan in over a decade, Ai started on MotoGP’s first rung of the talent ladder as 14-year-old in the Asia Talent Cup and progressed up through Red Bull Rookies and Moto3 until, in 2024, he emphatically sealed the Moto2 World Championship crown. Ai calls Kiyose, Japan, home and will join the MotoGP grid at the age of 24, carrying the #79 on the front of his Trackhouse Racing RS-GP25

 Trackhouse Racing:

Trackhouse Entertainment Group, centered in Nashville, Tennessee, is the owner of Trackhouse Racing’s NASCAR team and MotoGP World Championship team based out of Concord, North Carolina. After a full-time driving career in sports cars and NASCAR, Justin Marks founded Trackhouse Racing in 2020 and fielded an entry for #99 Daniel Suárez in 2021. Having acquired the NASCAR assets of Chip Ganassi Racing, midway through the 2021 season, Trackhouse fielded a pair Chevrolet Cup cars in 2022 for #1 Ross Chastain and Suárez – continuing in the #99.

The new team has enjoyed success on track – Daniel Suárez became the first Mexican driver to win a Cup Series race when he visited victory lane in 2022 and American Ross Chastain posted two victories to finish second in the standings in 2022. The team has scored victories throughout its time in the Cup series and Marks made more headlines bringing 2007 Formula One champion Kimi Raikkonen to NASCAR and Trackhouse Racing in 2022 and 2023 as part of the team’s PROJECT91 program. Created to give international stars a chance to compete in the sport, PROJECT91 led to New Zealander and three-time Supercar champion, Shane van Gisbergen’s dramatic rookie win at the first Chicago street race in 2023.

Off the track, Trackhouse Racing as a brand has proven itself as a progressive, marketing-minded team, reimagining how the sport is presented to its fans, media partners and sponsors. It has brought international entertainment superstar Pitbull to the organization as a team partner, increased digital presence and created live entertainment at racetracks and in 2024 announced the Avenue Sports Fund had acquired a significant minority stake in Trackhouse Entertainment Group. Trackhouse Racing acquired a third

NASCAR charter and will run Van Gisbergen fulltime in the 2025 Cup series, joining Suárez and Chastain on the grid. The team also signed 18-year-old Connor Zilisch who will compete full-time in the Xfinity Series for JR Motorsports.

credit: Gulf Oil Philippines