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54 55 FCP EURO is because of our differentiators in the marketplace.There’s room for everybody to grow if you have strong business fundamentals and clear differentiators for your business.” By 2016,Drozd says that although he and Nick had built a pretty solid e-commerce business, they didn’t feel as though they had a strong enough position in the marketplace as a brand.“So,we launched a motor sports division,”he states. First, the company built a BMWE30 that it entered in American Endurance Racing events, an amateur circuit for production-based race cars.“In 2017,we built a Mercedes C300 Endurance Car, and we’ve won a few races,”he adds.“We also have a BMW– M235iR in the Pirelli World Challenge,which is the professional car. So, this year,we’ve got a car in the amateur series and we’ve got a car in the profes- sional series.” “And we’re currently integrating a motor sports division into the e-commerce business, to accelerate our top line revenue growth, to gain intellectual properties for these vehicles that we sell the parts for, to test the products that we stand behind with PREFERRED VENDORS n IMS Merchant Services www.integritymerchantsolutions.com n Interamerican Motor Corporation www.imcparts.net 860-478-8846 cell n 860-760-6307 fax lschwartz@integritymerchantsolutions.com Payment Processing n Payment Gateway Services Card Acceptance n Terminals & POS Solutions For a free analysis, contact: LISA SCHWARTZ, VICE PRESIDENT INTEGRITY MERCHANT SOLUTIONS, LLC SCOTT DROZD | CEO, FCP EURO Integrity Merchant Solutions lowered our credit card processing and administrative fees over $10,000 a month versus our existing processor. Send them a current statement and see what they can do - it’s painless. I’ll guarantee you’ll be impressed!” our guarantee, and to build strategic relationships be- tween our manufacturers and vendors that like to partic- ipate in the motor sports and racing arena.That is a very big initiative on our plate, currently.” Looking ahead,Drozd says that FCP Euro will continue to challenge the perception that European cars are ex- pensive to fix and maintain.“Being owners and operators of European vehicles,we realize that it is not necessarily true,”he declares.“Our goal is to look at the entire land- scape–the audience that owns European cars in the U.S., and globally, and look at ways that we can help to improve the ownership of a European vehicle-helping themmaintain it, lowering overall costs, giving them ac- cess to information. So, as we look to build the business over the next five years, that’s the mind share that we want to occupy: enabling consumers to own their vehi- cles and accelerate the growth of the European mix in the marketplace for both new and pre-owned vehicles.”