Ross Hoek Motorsports

Sudden Impact Changes the Course of the Season for Ross Hoek Motorsports

Holland, MI (July 29, 2011) – The first ever Pro Short Course event in the heart of NASCAR country would be the perfect setting for Ross Hoek and his Allstar Performance, Venom Energy sponsored Ford Ranger to bring home his first podium finish of the 2011 season.   The #21 PRO-Light is currently 4th in points and looking to improve at this terrific venue.  The Dirt Track @ Charlotte Motor Speedway would be the ideal back drop for a couple podium finishes to solidify Ross’ position in the 2011 points battle.
 
The .8 mile long layout ran on and inside the clay based circle track and included several double jumps, a couple of mogul fields, a rhythm section, and one large jump over a thirty foot gap that was right in front of the grandstands. The track design was very technical and different from traditional TORC layouts.

The first PRO-Light practice session on the purpose built track saw Ross first in line. The Allstar Performance Ford was looking for a few easy laps for the first practice session on this obviously un-tested race track.  Less than 1/3 of the way through Ross’ first lap the truck felt good as it crested the third of 4 jumps on the back straight away then the truck hit the poorly placed 4th jump and things instantly went bad.  The truck basically “cased” the 4th jump, then the rear end bucked sending the front bumper rapidly down into the Charlotte clay.  The truck’s energy was then thrown into a violent end over end spin climaxing with a driver side dead flat landing on the hard packed track surface.  The truck flipped one more time and came to rest on its BF Goodrich tires.
 
Thanks to his ISP seat and belts, along with his Safety Solutions neck restraint, Ross quickly exited the truck on his own and tried to look over the damage.  Initial inspection looked easy to repair before the next practice session of the day.

Once the PRO-Light was towed back to the transporter, Ross and his crew noticed the engine and transmission were torn from their mounts.  The front suspension damage and broken wheel were easy fixes for a seasoned short course team but the truck had major internal structure damage, there was no way of fixing this at the race track.
 
Just minutes after the incident Ross Hoek explained what happened.
 
“I was just trying to take it easy through the double doubles and I was going a speed that couldn’t hurt me,” noted Ross Hoek. “Obviously I was wrong.  That portion of the track really needs to be changed. There’s no flow, no way to race through those 4 jumps.”
 
USAC officials must have been listening, as the track crew immediately went to work on that portion of the track knocking down the first 3 and removing the 4th jump. By race time, the changes made for ideal racing for all three PRO classes.
 
With the terminal damage to the race truck, and Ross with a sore foot and hand, the team would spend a rare race weekend watching all the action from the grandstands.
 
“It was a different way to spend a race weekend,” remarked Ross Hoek. “I really enjoyed the watching the races, but we have a ton of work ahead of us to get the truck ready for the next race. This incident knocks us out of the year end points chase. Now we will focus on race wins, and getting another Crandon World Championship ring.”

Race Winners

Race Results Week Ending 07/31/11

Nascar
Sprint Cup- Indianapolis- Brickyard 400 Presented by Big Machine Records- Paul Menard
Nationwide Series- Kroger 200- Brad Keselowski

F1- Budapest, Hungary- Jensen Button

World of Outlaws-Autodrome Drummond, Quebec Canada- Jason Meyers

K&N West- Portland OR- BiMart Salute to the Troops- Luis Martinez

Whelan All American Series- Riverhead Raceway- Lighthouse Mission 200- Justin Bonsignore

ARCA- Lucas Oil Raceway- Ty Dillon

NHRA
Top Fuel — Antron Brown
Funny Car — Ron Capps
Pro Stock — Greg Anderson
Pro Stock Motorcycle — LE Tonglet
Top Sportsman — Mike Ferderer
Top Dragster — Sheldon Gecker
Super Stock — Mark Faul
Stock Eliminator — Jody Lang
Super Comp — Eric Reyes
Super Gas — Steve Casner

Follow A Dream Racing

Follow a Dream

With its fourth final-round appearance of the season, Jay Blake’s Permatex/Follow A Dream team climbed to third in the national Top Alcohol Funny Car rankings, behind only yearlong leader Tony Bartone and perennial champ Frank Manzo.

At the Division 1 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at New England Dragway, the team’s home track, Veney tied his career-best by qualifying in the No. 2 spot, behind only Manzo, with a 5.69. Following a close 5.80 to 5.88 win over Wayne Morris and an easy 5.69 win when semifinal opponent Fred Tigges broke, Veney lost the final to Manzo, 5.60 to 5.71. Manzo’s run took the track record from the Permatex/Follow A Dream team, which ran a 5.62 at New England Dragway last year.

“I’m getting a little tired of running Frank Manzo in all these finals, but to be that high in the standings, ahead of all those great teams, is unbelievable,” said driver Todd Veney. “We got as high as fifth at one point last year, and we were fifth earlier this year, but third is the highest this team and I have ever been. Now we just need to turn some of these final-round appearances into wins.”

“Frank’s always tough – there’s a reason he’s won all those championships – but it was a great weekend for our team,” Blake said. “We had friends and family from all over the New England area in our pit, especially Saturday night for eliminations, and it was great to get to the final for them.”

Race Winners

Race Report Week Ending 7/24/11

World of Outlaws
Lebanon Valley- Craig Dollansky
Williams Grove- Jason Meyers

Grand Am- New Jersey Motorsports Park
Daytona Prototype- Scott Pruett
GT- Sylvain Tremblay, Jonathan Bomarito

K&N Pro Series East
Columbus Motor Speedway- Darrell Wallace Jr

F1- Grand Prix of Germany- Lewis Hamilton

Indycar- Edmonton Grand Prix- Will Power

Nascar
Nationwide Series- Nashville- Federated Auto Parts 300- Carl Edwards
Camping World Truck Series- Lucas Deep Clean 200- Austin Dillon

NHRA
Top Fuel — Spencer Massey
Funny Car — John Force
Pro Stock — Mike Edwards
Pro Stock Motorcycle — Karen Stoffer
Competition Eliminator — Clint Neff
Super Stock — Jackie Alley
Stock Eliminator — Scott Burton
Super Comp — Dave Crawford
Super Gas — Mike Wiblishouser

Tim Allison Racing

Tim Allison Weekend Update

This past weekend were was at Limaland Motorsports Park. The weather was very hot and there had been no rain so they had the track really watered-over 142,000 gallons of water for Friday night, then there was a major rain storm within 1 hr of start time on the track.  Wow!

We came up two spots short so we did not transfer to the A-main, what a heart breaker!  But thats how tough our series is. We will go get ’em next weekend.

1320 Racing

Matt Lennen and 1320 Motorsports

We made the 1000 mile trek down to Palm Beach, FL on the 14th for NSCRA round 3, taking place on the 16th.  This was a “night” race, with qualifying starting around 1pm.  We were out at the track all setup, through tech and ready to go at 10am – leaving us some time to talk with the media guys out there and let them know to keep an eye, and a lens, on us.  Made the first round of qualifying, with a 9.6@117mph – had to let out of it at the 1000ft mark because the car kicked out sideways – this still managed to leave us in the #1 qualifier spot.  We werent sure why the car lost traction at 140mph, but the next 3 RWD cars that ran the same lane all lost control at the same point on the track, so we knew something was up with the track surface.

Talked to some of the track officials and asked them to check it out, they found water coming up through the track surface and we were told it would be cleaned up for the 2nd round.  Unfortunately before the 2nd round began, a huge storm blew through, dumping down several inches of rain over about 2 hours.  The track officials tried to dry everything up, but due to the altitude of the track, ground water levels were now higher than the track surface, and water was continuing to come up through the cracks in the concrete making it unsafe to run on the track.  The event was called due to rain.

We werent leaving Florida empty handed again, and were determined to at least get some decent coverage out of the 18 hour drive there.  We arranged to meet the NSCRA team back at the track for a Wednesday night test and tune.  The plan was to make the first 8 second pass in a True Street trimmed car.  They came out with cameras to take some video footage which will be released along with an article on the car this week on the NSCRA website (www.nscra.com), and we are told they will be posting it to over 100 forums as well.

8’s were in sight, however the officials at Palm Beach International Raceway had done next to zero track prep, as there were only about 4 cars running this test and tune.  The track was cold and slick, but as more proof that we have got the traction issues worked out, still managed to cut several 1.45/1.46 60fts.  Made a total of 5 passes; the first pass out a 9.09@154mph, with a steady misfire and letting out of the throttle a hair up at the 1000ft mark with the car swaying hard due to the slick track – this is a new record time for a “True Street” car, and for a Supra driven by a factory auto transmission.  Second pass out was a 9.19@153mph, with some wheel spin before the 1/8th and easing out of the throttle again to regain traction.  Third pass was a 9.07@154mph – again having to let out of the throttle just a little bit before the 1000ft mark due to hard swaying on the slick track.

The last 2 passes were useless, with track temperatures dropping quickly due to ambient air temp falling and no cars running on the track.  The track was just too slick at that point and wouldnt hold any power.  The end result was setting the bar for the True Street class, a new record for a Supra w/Toyota Auto trans, and we’ve been looking into if this is a new 26″ tire record for Supra’s.

Subaru Road Racing Team

Subaru Road Racing Team Plays Close to Home

Having just completed their longest haul to a race this season – a 6,000-mile round trip from Phoenixville, Pa., to Monterey, Calif., Subaru Road Racing Team co-drivers Andrew Aquilante and Bret Spaude this weekend are racing as close as possible to the team’s home – Millville, New Jersey, a mere 73 miles from their race shop in Phoenixville.
 
Their 2 ½-hour race on a flat, 2.25-mile configuration of New Jersey Motorsports Park, will be the penultimate event of the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season.
 
The Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) prepares and races a 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4-door model in the series for Subaru of America, Inc.
 
Aquilante, Chester Springs, Pa., and Spaude, Bushnell, Fla., are coming off their season’s-best sixth place at Elkhart Lake, Wis., and what could have been another top 10 finish in California had the car not suffered a broken shock absorber.

“This is our home track,” said Joe Aquilante, owner of Phoenix Performance Inc., in Phoenixville, Pa., where the SRRT cars are race-prepared. “We’ve used it for development testing for Subaru so our drivers know the track.”
 
“The car is getting much faster and handling better as our development progresses. And with that, the drivers need to keep an extra vigil to make sure they don’t get caught up in a contact situations,” Aquilante added. “Subaru’s Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive System should be a big help this weekend.”
 
James Han, motorsports marketing manager for Subaru of America, Inc., noted, “As much as we look forward to every race weekend in the series, this is the one venue which is that little bit more special based on its proximity to our race shop and national corporate office for Subaru.”
 
Added Han, “This weekend’s weather forecast calls for humid and very warm temps, which will be taxing on both drivers and crew, so minimizing mental errors both on and off the track will be key.  That said, I’m confident in our team’s ability to cope with the challenging conditions and added pressure of performing in front of our ‘home’ crowd.”

Nitrous Xpress Duramax Dragster

Mike Wood on the NX Duramax Dragster

I wish I could tell everyone that the car ran great and we won the race again but no such luck this time around.  We got to the track in Numidia, Pennsylvania on Friday, unloaded the car and displayed it for all the spectators and racers to see, there was a great crowd.  We got a lot of attention and talked to a ton of people.
 
Saturday morning dawned a beautiful day and we warmed up the engine and tranny to get ready to try our brand new combination.  We had lightened the car, removed the front and rear wings to improve aerodynamics, reprogrammed the nitrous controller to eliminate “all” the diesel smoke and installed the new “Big” fuel pump that had shown on the dyno to make an easy 200 more horsepower than the old one.  As they say in Texas, we were loaded for BEAR!
 
At 9:30 AM Emily pulled the car into the burnout box and hit the throttle, WOW!  Copious smoke poured off the rear tires as the turbos spooled instantly with no smoke, except the tires.  This was looking good!  She backed up and staged the car and it instantly got on the converter stalling to 4800RPM’s with the turbos pumping out a solid 40 pounds of boost.  The tree flashed and Emily was on her way to the quickest pass of her life, 1.12 60 ft, 3.17 to the 330 mark, then disaster struck.  As the car shifted from low to high gear the fuel pump drive gave up and the motor went silent, Emily coasted through the eighth mile with a 4.94 @ 134MPH…………….
 
The good news, if there was any, is that the Numidia PA track is at an altitude of 5300 feet.  This usually dictates very poor performance from any internal combustion powered vehicle and it did slow some of the vehicles up to one half of a second.  If this was true with our car then we are looking at 6 second potential at sea level.  Like with most racers, we know what it takes to run a certain ET, a 1.12 60ft time combined with a 3.17 would indicate a mid 4.80 eighth mile and further math indicates the imaginary quarter mile ET to be a sub 7.50 pass.  This gives us hope for the six second zone by the end of this year.

Tim Allison Racing

TIM ALLISON WEEKEND NEWS

THIS PAST WEEKEND WE WERE AT ELDORA SPEEDWAY FOR THE KINGS ROYAL WEEKEND.  WE HAD ANOTHER GREAT FIELD OF CARS WITH 38 CARS ON HAND.  WE QUALIFIED 7TH AND THAT GOT US IN THE FOURTH HEAT.  WE STARTED IN THE 3RD ROW AND FINISHED 3RD WITH A TIRE GOING DOWN. THAT GOT US QUALIFIED FOR THE FEATURE, WITH THE INVERSION THAT PUT US ON THE OUTSIDE POLE FOR. WE WOULD TAKE THE LEAD ON THE FIRST LAP AND START TO CHECK OUT AND LEAD UP UNTIL LAP 16 OF 25 LAPS AND THE CAR WAS GETTING LOOSE AND WE ENDED UP FINISHING 6TH OVER ALL IN THE FEATURE ON FRIDAY NIGHT,
 
ON SATURDAY NIGHT THERE WERE ALSO 38 CARS ON HAND. WE QUALIFIED 21st ON THIS NIGHT.  IT WASN’T A GOOD QUALIFYING TIME, SO NOW WE HAD OUT WORK CUT OUT FOR US THIS NIGHT.   THIS PUT US IN THE 3RD HEAT ON THE FRONT ROW.  WE WON THE HEAT WITH NO PROBLEM.  THIS QUALIFIED FOR THE FEATURE AND WITH THE INVERSION WE WOULD START IN 12TH .WE WOULD FINISH 14TH IN THE FEATURE, NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED BUT OVERALL WE HAD A GOOD WEEKEND. WE ARE NOW IN 2ND  IN THE POINTS.  THIS WEEKEND WE WILL BE AT LIMA LAND MOTOR SPORTS PARK FOR THE ANNUAL MEMORIAL RACE FOR OUR FELLOW RACER TRAVIS MILLER.
 
 

Race Winners

Race Results Week Ending 7/17/11

KN Pro Series- New England 125, New Hampshire Motor Speedway- Max Gresham

World of Outlaws- Kings Royal- Eldora Speedway- Tyler Walker
Sprint Cup
Camping World Truck Series- Iowa Speedway- Coca Cola 200- Matt Crafton
Nationwide Series- Loudon- New England 200- Kyle Busch
Sprint Cup- Loudon- Lenox Industrial Tools 301- Ryan Newman
Hairston Motorsports

HMR GTO/ JEGS PRO MOD Qualifying and Going Rounds

With Jake Hairston coming aboard this year at Coughlin Brothers Racing, Troy Coughlin has been using the HMR Jeg’s wrapped GTO in the NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Series until his new Bickel 68 Camaro is finished.  Troy’s new car will be debuted at the U.S. Nationals and will be powered by a Duttweiler built 504 CID twin turbo 5 inch bore spaced big block Chevy using a Donovan block and CFE billet heads and manifold with Precision Turbo 88MM NHRA Pro Mod  turbos. 

Trying to compete in Pro Mod with a small block twin turbo Pro Street car seemed like an impossible task but the Jeg’s team has done an incredible job all season.  Remember that the 377 CID Duttweiler motor equipped GTO is running against 500+ CID blown and turbo entries with NO weight break and is giving up 230 pounds to the 800+ CID nitrous entries.  Troy has qualified at 5 of 7 events running a best ET of 5.965 and 249.16 MPH going to the quarters in Vegas and Bristol and the semis in Atlanta.  The FASTEST small block powered race car in NHRA history, PERIOD!

Clint “The Milkman” Hairston will be taking over the driving duties at the upcoming NMCA Bowling Green Pro Street event August 5-7.  “I’ve only driven the car once this year at the NMCA/NMRA Atlanta race but was happy give up the seat to Troy so he wouldn’t miss any of the NHRA events.  I’m sure I’ll be shaking off some rust at Bowling Green but I know I have a really fast hot rod,” commented Clint.

Hairston Motorsports & Racing would like to give special thanks to Lucas Oil for being our title sponsor this year and also thank our many other loyal sponsors; Pertronix, Duttweiler Performance, Precision Turbo, XS Power, Powermaster, Racepak, Hoosier Tire, K&N, Crower Clutches, Lenco, Comp Cams, Dart, T&D Machine, Scat crankshafts, Hogan Manifolds, Jesel, Strange, Motive Gear, Inland Empire Driveline, SCE Gaskets, Starside Design, Specialty Fasteners, Russell, Brodix and ARP for their continuing support. 

Kasey Kahne Racing

Kasey Kahne Racing Update

Saldana wins at Beaver Dam
The World of Outlaws Series competed on Friday night at Cedar Lake Speedway and Saturday night at Beaver Dam in Wisconsin. Saldana posted his fourth win of the season on Saturday at Beaver Dam, while Paul McMahan finished third, Brad Sweet finished fifth and Cody Darrah finished 11th.

-Joey Saldana, driver of the #9 Red Bull/Sage Fruit/ASE Maxim

On Friday night, Saldana qualified third, finished third in his heat, fifth in the dash and eighth in the A Main.

On Saturday, Saldana let out a big breath before crawling out of his Kasey Kahne Racing #9 Red Bull Maxim in the Beaver Dam Raceway victory lane. He had just held off Craig Dollansky to win the Jim Boyd Memorial for his fourth victory of the season, but his first win since early May. Saldana is now within six points of the point’s leader.

“It feels great to be back in victory lane after the past month,” said Saldana, of Brownsburg, Ind. “A good start has kept us in this points battle and if you’re going to beat guys like Donny Schatz and Jason Meyers, you have to be spot on, night after night. We haven’t been doing that lately. It’s been a struggle. It’s easy to lose your confidence out here but this win helps. The high line was good for us and I knew Craig was closing in but I was just patient and held on.”

-Brad Sweet, driver of the #49 Ollie’s Bargain Outlet/Sage Fruit Maxim

Brad Sweet rejoined the World of Outlaws on Friday night and posted an impressive fifth-place finish in the A main after starting from the third position.

On Saturday night, Brad Sweet started off with a 15th-place qualifying effort, but rallied back with a fourth-place finish in his heat. Sweet started the A main in the 15th position and fought his way up to fifth for his second-consecutive top-five finish of the weekend.

-Paul McMahan, driver of the #83 HR Cattle/Roth Motorsports Maxim

On Friday night, McMahan qualified second, finished fifth in his heat, sixth in the dash and 23rd in the A main following a part failure.

On Saturday night, McMahan found himself in position to post his third win of the season. Pole-sitter Brooke Tatnell tried to hold on to the lead but saw McMahan rocket by out of turn four to lead lap one. McMahan opened up considerable advantages as the race wore on but was caught in lapped traffic as the low line bottled up and allowed his teammate, Saldana, to slide past on the outside. McMahan brought home a third-place finish and remains seventh in the point standings.

“We tried a softer tire for the feature and that probably hurt us as the night wore on,” said McMahan, of Nashville, Tenn. “Hats off to the crew, though. They had me up front and this thing was incredibly fast all night long.”

-Cody Darrah, driver of the #91 Great Clips/Sage Fruit/ASE Maxim

Darrah qualified eighth, finished third in his heat and 12th in the A main on Friday night.

On Saturday, Darrah qualified 17th, finished fifth in his heat and 11th in the A main. He remains ninth in the point standings.

Matt Lennen

Matt Lennen Update

Hello again, wanted to send out another quick update.  It’s been a long month of waiting on parts to trickle in, but we got the last few pieces we were waiting on towards the end of last week.  Got everything back together on the car and made it back out to the track Sunday to test out the new suspension, Weld wheels, and new M/T tires.

The track we ran the car at was mediocre at best, its a small local track, Mason Dixon dragway.  It’s known to be a few tenths slower than some other tracks, and sits around 650ft above sea level.  Temps outside were in the mid 90’s with high humidity.  All of that aside, after a few initial passes just feeling out the suspension, we made 2 full passes, both of which were new bests for the car.

First full pass:

60ft  – 1.44
1/8mi – 6.015 @ 121.18mph
1/4mi – 9.246 @ 151.36mph

Second full pass:

60ft  – 1.42
1/8mi – 5.911 @ 119.70
1/4mi – 9.177 @ 150.23

Tires only spun slightly on the last pass, got the tires a little too hot.  Rear view video of the pass from the gopro can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiSiBg8ZQao  – we didnt take any pictures as this was just a quick test day.  More videos posted from other people can be seen at

Race Winners

Race Results Week Ending July 10, 2011

Indycar
Honda Indy Toronto- Dario Franchitti
F1
Grand Prix Britain- Fernando Alonso

Nascar- Kentucky Speedway
Camping World Truck Series- UNOH 225- Kyle Busch
Nationwide Series- Feed the Children 300- Brad Keselowski
Sprint Cup- Quaker State 400- Kyle Busch

NHRA
Top Fuel — Del Worsham
Funny Car — Mike Neff
Pro Stock — Greg Anderson
Pro Stock Motorcycle — LE Tonglet
Top Alcohol Dragster — Bill Reichert
Top Alcohol Funny Car — Tony Bartone
Competition Eliminator — David Rampy
Super Stock — Michael Mans
Stock Eliminator — Slate Cummings
Super Comp — Kevin Kleineweber
Super Gas — Jimmy Lewis
Super Street — Scotty Rienschield

Tim Allison Racing

Tim Allison Update

This past weekend we were suppose to travel to Moler Raceway down by Cincinnati Ohio for out first visit, but mother nature dumped over an inch of rain on Thursday night and with continued rain on Friday morning canceling another one of our races, mother nature has been a bear this year.
 
Saturday night we were off to K-C Raceway for our first visit and we did get the race in as the weather was great.  We had another great field of cars and we were able to qualify at this track and were fast in hot laps and changed  a gear to qualify. That hurt us and we qualified 11th overall.

We were in the first heat and drove away from everyone and won by a straightaway. That got us qualified for the feature, and with the inversion draw we would start 9th in the feature.

The feature went non stop and we finished 13th, not what we were expecting as fast as we were, we mounted 2 new tires for the feature and our left rear grew 2″ from where we started and that did not help handling of the race car at all!
This coming weekend is the Super bowl of sprint car racing and one to see as we are at Tony Stewarts famous Eldora Speedway for the annual Kings Royal weekend!

NADM

NADM July Happenings

DIESEL ONLY – 3RD ANNUAL A&A DIESEL EAST COAST NATIONALS

JULY 15 Quaker Steak & Lube, Bloomsburg, PA
A&A/NADM Diesel Truck Night – 7pm
Best Show Truck, Best Show Truck Girl!
Prizes, Free Tickets Give-Aways

July 16 – A&A/NADM Diesel East Coast Nationals
Numidia Dragway, minutes outside of Bloomsburg PA
Gates Open 8am, Drag racing starts 9am, Pulling starts 1pm
Dyno open all day, Vendor Alley open all day
A&A Automotive Store’s Wholesale tent where over 50 vendors will  sell Diesel Truck Performance parts and Truck accessories at wholesale event pricing!

Subaru Road Racing Team

Subaru Road Racing Team Looking for Gold in California

Hot on the heels of their season-best top six finish on the longest track of the series, Subaru Road Racing Team co-drivers Andrew Aquilante and Bret Spaude now face one of their season’s most-compact circuits in their race this Saturday at Laguna Seca Raceway near Monterey, Calif.
 
Their challenge this Friday in the Phoenix Performance-prepared Subaru Impreza WRX STI is a 2.238-mile layout with a long, fast uphill climb to the Laguna’s world-famous Corkscrew turn, then a mega-horsepower, winding “bobsled run” downhill to the start-finish line, and do it all over again for 2.5 hours.
 
Aquilante, Chester Springs, Pa., and Spaude, Bushnell, Fla., are coming off their season’s-best sixth place in the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Series on the long, wide-open circuit comprising 4.048 miles which is the Road America layout in Wisconsin.
 
The Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) prepares and races a 2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI 4-door model in the series for Subaru of America, Inc.

Andrew Aquilante returned to the cockpit after a two-race absence. He relieved Spaude behind the wheel one-hour and six minutes into the race, in sixth place, temporarily picked up one position for laps 27- 35, settled into a safe run to the checkered flags while those around crashed with abandon.
 
“Laguna Seca is very much like Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, in terms of its geographical features, except its length is a mile longer,” noted Joe Aquilante, owner of Phoenix Performance Inc., in Phoenixville, Pa., where the SRRT cars are race-prepared.
 
“Our Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive System should help AJ and Bret get the tires just that much quicker than some of our competitors, and fractions add up over two and a half hours of racing,” he added.
 
James Han, motorsports marketing manager for Subaru of America, Inc., noted, “After a solid result at a race course which emphasizes horsepower and top end speed, I’m looking forward to seeing how well we perform at a distinctly different track like Laguna Seca.”

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