Compact Octane: Bringing big fun back into your track day experience with small sizes.
Los Angeles, CA — Compact Octane is a newly founded SoCal based track-day provider that has been created to give riders a more unique and different track-day experience. Here at Compact Octane we cater to machines with displacements of 400cc and below. The result is pure fun and freedom for our “little” bikes. Little bikes provide BIG fun, and our goal is to fill the track up with nothing but compact bikes resulting in a much safer environment and experience.
Our founders Matt LaPaglia, Heath Cofran and Matt Testa all come from a long history on two wheels. LaPaglia began riding at 8 years old and was driven by that passion into his adult years bringing him to the renowned race club WSMC, racing for ten years, with appearances in CCS, WERA and AMA as well as working in Motorsports his entire career. Heath started a little later in life but got on the throttle fast, entering his first race in 2012 and was crowed AHRMA Pacific Champ in 2013. As a professional commercial rider for many years, Heath’s passions extend from rider coaching to rider body and mental fitness. Testa brings a passion and level of excellence from the music industry as a multi-Grammy Award winning music engineer to motorsports with the highest level of technical expertise knowing only how to win!
We cater to track riders with machines that are 400cc and below, but why do you ask?
One crisp April track day in Southern California, our founders were riding in the fast group on their below 400cc bikes. They are decently quick riders and could pass some larger cc bikes in corners. One of these larger cc bikes decided he didn’t like that and blew past our founders late coming into a turn and hitting one of them. At that point, we knew something had to be done so riders with these smaller cc bikes could ride together in harmony and have a BLAST together. And, since there was nothing out there like this, COMPACT OCTANE was born. Small CC, BIG fun is what we like to say. We also cater to NEW riders on the track because if you’re new, this can tend to be intimidating. Our team is driven to support new and experienced riders and make this as FUN as possible!
August 19th, 2023 — Compact Octane heads to The Streets of Willow at Willow Springs International Raceway for their first event of 2023 on August 19th.
Compact Octane will run a 3 group format.
A Group will be geared towards advanced and fast riders on machines under 400cc.
B Group will be for our beginner and new track riders on machines under 400cc.
O Group (Open Group/Above 400cc) will allow for larger bikes to join the day but have their own group to enjoy, this group is meant for intermediate to advanced riders.
For those new to track riding, Compact Octane is dedicated to providing the proper safety and instruction through our free New Track Rider Orientation. We have coaches available all day to help new riders navigate the track and understand the basics of track riding.
We are very excited to have teamed up with Alpinestars to provide loaner safety gear for those new riders in need. You can reserve a suit during sign up on our website.
Riders can sign up at https://www.compactoctane.com/events.
