The Team
Silicon Tech Racing LLC was created by Henri Richard to address the need of high-tech corporations for an opportunity to leverage exciting road racing events with a dedicated marketing platform focused on technology executives interested in an informal and intimate insight into the sport.
The team is incoporated in Austin, TX and operates out of Los Altos Hills, CA. It is supported by TRG in Petaluma, CA.
Silicon Tech Racing brings together selected, C-level executives at each racing event and provides a high value, targeted business to business networking opportunity to our partners. Our partners are carefully selected based on ecosystem synergies and common business values.
The Silicon Tech Racing crew is composed of racing professionals with deep experience in high tech and great communications skills. The week end schedule offers guests as much insight into the sport as they are interested in without any of the usual constraints of professional motorsports.
As a not for profit race team, we aim to provide a unique, cost effective value proposition to our partners and a memorable experience to our guests.
Our focus is on satisfying our partner's needs for an exciting race environment and high class hospitality while offering a personal touch from a driver with deep industry knwoledge and experience.
TRG
Starting in 1992, TRG is one of the most storied racing teams in North America today. With a long history of success in the American Le Mans Series, GRAND-AM, and now NASCAR, TRG and Team Owner Kevin Buckler have a strong and established reputation in every motorsport discipline they've been in.
TRG has won the biggest accolades in endurance racing. 2002 and 2003 would provide the team's breakout years, first winning the GT class at the Rolex 24 at Daytona followed by an identical feat in the 24 Heures du Mans in 2002, which would also lead to Kevin Buckler's earning of the prestigious Porsche International Driver's Cup in the same year. One year later, in 2003, TRG would again win the Rolex 24 at Daytona, only this time overall, beating the faster prototype cars.
Since that time, TRG has become synonymous with success in sportscar racing. Winning multiple races and podiums in both the American Le Mans Series as well as GRAND-AM, TRG has since gone on to winning two Team Championships in GRAND-AM, another victory at The Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2009, and is the winningest GRAND-AM GT Team in series history.
In 2007, TRG expanded their fleet in to the NASCAR ranks, creating TRG Motorsports. In only their eighth race in the NASCAR Truck Series, the team would take their first NASCAR victory, leading to their entry in to the top-ranked Sprint Cup Series in 2009. Qualifying for 35-straight races in their debut year, TRG Motorsports has proved a strong team in the series, signing NASCAR Champion Bobby Labonte and regularly competing with drivers like Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, and Jimmie Johnson.
Beyond motorsports, TRG is also synonymous with a strong and dynamic business acumen that is unparalleled in the business. Whether it's in their sister company, Adobe Road Wines, an award-winning boutique winery located in Sonoma County, or their new executive level motorsport facility currently under planning in New Jersey, the team maintains a dynamic and forward thinking approach.