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Chief Guest First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa with representatives of the Army, Air Force, SLADA, CEAT and the champion driver and rider at the 2014 CEAT- SLADA awards
Shehan Adikari was adjudged the Best Rider of 2014, while the Team Championship for Motorbikes was won by Exide. Awards for twelve other categories were presented to the top performing drivers and riders at the six race meets that make up the CEAT SLADA Championship.
Three of these 12 awards went to members of the CEAT Racing Team, with Upulwan Serasinghe winning the awards for the SLN Ford Laser/Mazda 1300cc and 1500 cc events and Janaka Dias emerging champion in the Group SLH 1600cc category. Adikari won two more awards in the Group MX Racing 100cc-125cc and 175cc-250cc categories.
Among the other racing champions honoured were Suraj Perera (Group SM Open 250cc-1100cc), Sameera Premarathna (Group MX Racing 100cc-125cc – Forces), Lahiru Jeewantha (Group M-STD/MOD 175cc-250cc), Missaka Naveen (Group SL-S Cars 1500cc), Rohitha Rajapaksa (Group SLN 1000cc), Kasun Wickremarachchi (Group MX Racing 65cc-85cc) and Aravinda Premadasa (SLGT 3500cc).
Performances at six major race meets, the Sigiriya Rally Cross, Fox Hill Super Cross, Cavalry Super Cross, Gunners Super Cross, Gajaba Super Cross and the Rotherham Katukurunda Circuit Meet are considered for the CEAT SLADA Championship Awards, supported by Sri Lanka’s leading tyre maker CEAT Kelani Holdings as title sponsor for the fifth consecutive year.
Established by a team of drivers, riders and officials to take motorsports in Sri Lanka to the next level, the Sri Lanka Autosports Drivers Association (SLADA) has introduced the latest technology and equipment including starting grid sensors to meet the demands of this rapidly changing sport.
A SLADA computer app with live online timing is now functional. To ensure that race events are a success, SLADA has nominee representatives from the Sri Lanka Army and the Sri Lanka Air Force on its Executive Committee, a first for any racing association in the country.
Besides its sponsorship of the CEAT SLADA Championship and its support to race meets conducted by the Sri Lanka Army and the Sri Lanka Air Force, CEAT also fields its own racing team at many of these meets, supporting and encouraging individual drivers to improve on their performances.
CEAT Kelani Holdings partnered the sport’s governing body Sri Lanka Automobile Sports (SLAS) for the third successive year in 2014. As part of its partnership with SLAS, CEAT Kelani Holdings is the principal sponsor of all Ford Laser/Mazda 1300cc and 1500cc ‘One Make’ racing events conducted during the year, at which all competing drivers race on CEAT radial tyres.
