National motocross opens at elite CEZA tracks

STA ANA, Cagayan, Philippines  — A  Cagayan Economic Zone Authority track that meets Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme international and Asian standards hosts the second round of this year’s Philippine championship series of the National Motorcycle Sports and Safety Association, the sporting authority for motorcycle sports in the Philippines.

Also dubbed as the 2018 CEZA-Eastern Hawaii National Motocross Championship, the motocross extravaganza set today and tomorrow and held under the auspices of the NAMSSA is one of the many firsts introduced to promote CEZA as an investment hub, a tourism destination and a motorsports venue in Northern Luzon.

“The circuit is 95 percent complete and meets FIM international safety standards. It will be fully operational in a few days, made out of sandy loam, which is weatherproof and the deep sand will be good rider training for race bike control like in Europe, the first of its kind in the Philippines,” said NAMSSA president Macky Carapiet, who was also recently elected as president of the FIM Asia.