{"id":60758,"date":"2024-01-05T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=60758"},"modified":"2024-01-05T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:05:11","slug":"honda-philippines-keeps-their-racing-form-at-2023-inside-racing-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2024\/01\/05\/honda-philippines-keeps-their-racing-form-at-2023-inside-racing-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda Philippines keeps their racing form at 2023 Inside Racing Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Honda Philippines, Inc. (HPI), recently participated in the 16th Inside Racing Grand Prix (IRGP). This year\u2019s event was dubbed as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=707753918054408&amp;set=a.587771113386023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IRGPXVI: LEGENDS ARE FOREVER!<\/a>\u201d and was held last December 15 to 17,2023 at the Tarlac Circuit Hill. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HPI\u2019s participation in this event is part of the plan with the \u201cRoad to Champion\u201d campaign for on-road sports to emphasize and expand its exposure in Domestic Racing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, HPI sponsored two of the country\u2019s most promising motorcycle young racers,\u00a0Jakob Sablaya,\u00a0and\u00a0Alfonsi Daquigan. Jakob Sablaya, 18, represented Honda Project M Koby Racing Team gaining podium finishes, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Place in MotoIR Grand Prix using the CBR150R, and 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Place in Super Sports 300 Grand Prix using the CBR300R race bikes. Meanwhile another racer, the 14-year-old Alfonsi Daquigan got the Pole Position Award for the MotoIR Grand Prix race category under the Sharp Honda SCK Philippines Racing Team using the CBR150R. Both riders had shown their potential as a future international riders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite fierce competition, Sablaya showed his competitors that still he could have what it takes to stand out by showing his skills in the Underbone Limited finishes in 4<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Place and in Underbone Open race category finishing 7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Place while exerting his efforts using the Supra GTR150.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HPI President Ms. Sayaka Arai emphasizes that \u2018\u2019 We are very happy with the results and efforts of Mr. Sablaya and Mr. Daquigan they are truly indicative of a job well done. Honda is honored to support young riders who are achieving their dream of becoming a champion.\u2019\u2019&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hondaph.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.hondaph.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPI\u2019s participation in this event is part of the plan with the \u201cRoad to Champion\u201d campaign for on-road sports to emphasize and expand its exposure in Domestic Racing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":60765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[7033,628],"class_list":["post-60758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring-2","tag-honda-philippines","tag-motoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}