ETi Motorsports: The Drivers
Plenty of brands talk about "race-proven" parts. Here's what that actually means for us: real cars, real drivers, real competition, every round. ETi sponsors drivers in the PT Maxnitron Racing Series (PTRS), racing under the lights at Chang International Circuit in Buriram, and their cars run our parts under the hardest conditions a composite panel will ever see. This page is where you meet them.
Why we sponsor race cars
A show car tells you a part looks right. A race car tells you everything else: how a hood behaves under sustained aero load and engine heat, how a trunk handles vibration lap after lap, how interior carbon survives a cabin that bakes in the sun all race weekend. Competition compresses years of street use into a season, and what we learn goes straight back into how we build. Sponsorship isn't a marketing line item for us; it's product development with lap times.
Tim "Doggzy" Zielinski: the #M12 Evo 8
Tim Zielinski campaigns the yellow-and-blue #M12 Evo 8 in PTRS, and the car just delivered: at the latest round at Chang, Tim took first in class and third overall, on a night race that ended with fireworks over the podium. Exactly the kind of weekend a sponsor hopes for, and exactly the kind of abuse that proves parts.
The Evo isn't the whole program either. Tim also campaigns an E30 BMW in a separate race series, and both cars carry ETi carbon dashboards. Interior carbon in a race car is the hardest test we can give it. A cabin that cooks under a windshield all weekend is a UV and heat chamber on wheels, and a dash that rattles or warps gets found out in one session. Two cars, two chassis families, two different grids, and a podium to show for it.
Chaiyavee Kongthed: the #M28 Evo 8
Chaiyavee Kongthed campaigns the #M28 widebody Evo 8 in PTRS. The car runs an ETi carbon fiber hood and trunk: weight off both ends of a car that lives or dies by direction change, with the vented hood pulling heat off a turbocharged 4G63 that gets zero mercy on track.
Race weekends at Chang are exactly the environment carbon is built for: tropical heat, sustained load, and no margin for a panel that flexes or a finish that fades. The #M28's hood and trunk have taken it all season.
The series
The PT Maxnitron Racing Series runs full grids at Chang International Circuit, Thailand's FIA Grade 1 track, with sedan classes where the Evos hunt and day-into-night races that finish under floodlights. It's proper door-to-door club racing with professional organization, and it's the perfect proving ground: heat, humidity, curbs, and contact risk, all season long.
What's next
Race recaps from PTRS rounds will land here on the blog, results, photos, and the honest engineering notes about what held and what we learned. Follow along on our socials between rounds, and if you're racing on ETi parts anywhere in the world, send us your car. Drivers who run our parts hard are the best development team we could ask for.
Race photography courtesy of the PT Maxnitron Racing Series (PTRS). Want the parts these cars run? The hoods, trunks, and interiors in our catalog are the same construction the race program uses, built to order for your chassis. Written by Nate Benoit, founder of Elite Ti. Bespoke carbon and titanium for JDM and motorsport builds. Last updated June 2026.