Inside Track News Magazine released their nominees for their annual motorsports awards today. The team is excited to announce that C360R driver Matt Pritiko was nominated as one of Canada’s Up-and-Coming Road Racers of the Year.

Pritiko is in his third season in the Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge. Two years ago, the London, Ontario, driver began his career us before moving to Ottawa’s Predators for the 2008 season. This year, Matt is back with Compass360, and is teamed with fellow Canadian Travis Walker.

Ironically, Walker was the winner of this very award in 2006. The duo started 2009 well with a third-place finish in the Fresh From Florida 200 at Daytona International Speedway, driving our #76 Honda Civic Si.

Vote for Matt by visiting the Inside Track News survey page.

Randy’s exciting Daytona experience started out on Friday when Randy, with co-driver Christian Miller, finished twelfth in the three hour KONI Challenge Fresh From Florida 200 in the #74 Compass 360 Racing Honda Civic Si. In a one race deal, Randy joined Compass360 and its field of three cars, hoping to further extend the team’s success in recent years in the KONI Challenge.

We shot a lot of video at Daytona with our friends and technical partners Skunk2. This is the first in a series of videos that will be published on Skunk2’s new website and Youtube (as well as here at C360R.com). Check out some of Skunk2’s other videos here.

The Toronto Star’s John Larson was at Daytona for the KONI and Rolex races, taking more of his award-winning shots. A collection of them, including a great shot of the start of the KONI race, were featured in the Wheels section this Saturday. Nice work, John!