DrexLokoWorkz Racing Team’s Travis Canoy Jr. Ready for IRGPXVIII Victory!

“Winning might be hard but not impossible, and that chance will come at some point to every rider. When it eventually comes, you take it with authority!” This is one of the Recipe for a Champion posted by IR and this is what Travis Canoy Jr. of DrexLokoWorkz Racing Team did in the Repsol Underbone Open Trophy of the IRGPXVIII held in November 2025 at the Tarlac Circuit Hill.

Novice and Beginner racers competed in the 12-lap race. As the red lights went off, KC99 BOM Rangsit X rider Dale Malihan and Dad’s Garage 4S1M Ravenol Yamaha’s JM Malonzo battle for the lead while Canoy Jr. was just behind them, riding consistently.

By lap 9, Malihan crashed and Malonzo was overtaken by Canoy Jr. who triumphantly crossed the finish line first. Malonzo settled for second place while ADM Racing Team’s Jasper Castro finished third.

Dad’s Garage 4S1M Ravenol’s Shan Espedilla placed fourth followed by Jon Robert Ventilacion of Palawan Pitbull Racing Team, Christian Arish Pilapil of JCP RCB Racing Team, Dynopro MDR Racing’s Hussein Deliganzo, Vash Travis Aguilar of Vhenworkz GAD K3 DRS Racing, ADM Racing Team’s Francois Miguel Pulido and Mark Dustine Oliveros of 4DPRO AZM Moto Racing. Disqualified from the race were Malihan and Francis Labayani of Platinum Fullgaz Uragon GP.

Because of Canoy Jr.’s victyory, Best Team of the race was awarded to his DrexLokoWorkz racing team and his mechanic Xandrix Cayunda was recognized on the podium as well. Pilapil was the Fastest Beginner and Yamaha Motor Philippines received the Manufacturers’ Award.

A Spanish multinational energy and petrochemical company based in Madrid, Repsol is engaged in worldwide upstream and downstream activities. Repsol Lubricants marked an important milestone in its international expansion by completing its first local production in the Philippines with its new joint venture last June 17, 2025. The achievement took place at the Valenzuela plant and has been reached less than four months after the signing of an agreement with Unioil Lubricants Inc (ULI), thus consolidating the manufacturing plans laid out in this strategic alliance.