The corporate was based by Igor Akrapovic, a former racer of bikes himself, who began tuning bikes early, earlier than channeling his ardour into tuning. He opened the corporate in 1991 and initially centered on exhaust techniques for these two-wheeled crotch rocket race bikes earlier than increasing into the mainstream market, and finally vehicles. The corporate now employs greater than 1,300 individuals and has two state-of-the-art manufacturing services in Slovenia.

“I look again on the firm’s three a long time of improvement, particularly its racing historical past, with nice pleasure as a result of races are the hardest testing floor for a product,” says Akrapovic. That testing clearly served him properly, together with his firm successful 140 world championship titles with its numerous accomplice racing groups in numerous motorsport disciplines.