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Aston Martin Celebrates FIA World Endurance Championship Bid with Double Victory at Silverstone

20 May 2013

The four car Aston Martin Racing team exceeded expectations at Silverstone, prompting Team Principal, John Gaw, to admit that this bodes well for the team’s championship drive.

When Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford founded Aston Martin in 1913, they couldn’t have foreseen that their British made luxury sports cars would one day rule the roads, and dominate the motorsports kingdom. To celebrate the illustrious brand’s 100th Birthday, Aston Martin Racing has thrown down the gauntlet, declaring that they have it in mind to win both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).

The winning No.97 Vantage GTE finished one lap ahead of their nearest rival in the GT Pro category.

After partnering with K&N earlier this year Warren Jones, Technical Partner Manager at Aston Martin Racing remarked “The partnership of these two great companies working together at the highest level of GT Racing will focus on one goal - to win!"

The first event of the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship got underway at the distinguished marque’s home track, Silverstone, located in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. And making good on Jones’ forecast, Aston Martin Racing got off to a near perfect start at the Six Hours of Silverstone, earning a double victory in the ultra-competitive GT class.

Darren Turner, Stefan Mücke and Bruno Senna ran a flawless race to victory in the Pro class in their No.97 V8-powered Vantage GTE. The trio led the race from start to finish. The three drivers survived an early traction control problem, rain and relentless pressure in the first hour from both its sister No.99 Aston Martin Vantage (Paul Dalla Lana, Frederic Makowiecki and Pedro Lamy) and the No.51 AF Corse Ferrari 458. However, the British-German-Brazilian driver lineup managed to stretch out a lead they would never surrender, finishing one lap ahead of their nearest rival in the GT Pro category. The race-winning 2013-specification No.97 completed 171 laps of the 3.7-mile Silverstone circuit, amounting to a total race distance of more than 630 miles at an average speed of 108mph.

The trio of Christoffer Nygaard, Kristian Poulsen and Allan Simonsen, celebrate their GT Am win.

The second triumph came from the Danish trio of Christoffer Nygaard, Kristian Poulsen and Allan Simonsen, driving the No.95 car to victory in the GT Am.

Aston Martin Racing also earned a another podium finish with Pedro Lamy, Paul Dalla Lana and Frédéric Makowiecki, who put together an impressive performance with third place in the No.99 car in GT Pro. The trio crossed the line a single lap behind the winning No.97 machine, and within 13 seconds of the second place car after six hours of racing.

The fourth Gulf-liveried Aston Martin, the No.96 car of Jamie Campbell-Walter, Roald Goethe and Stuart Hall, finished fourth in GT Am, after being in contention for a podium finish the entire race.

While celebrating their near perfect start to Aston Martin Racing’s world championship bid, Darren Turner said: “That was an amazing result! We couldn’t have asked for a better start to the season. Stefan, Bruno and myself all pushed hard throughout what was, at times, a difficult race. However, the car was prepared perfectly with a lot of hard work and the result is a great reward for everything. Praise to our chief engineer, Dan Sayers, who has done a great job with the 2013 car and given us a package that should see us have a solid season.”

Aston Martin Racing conquered the GT Pro podium with first and third place.

Making his WEC debut, Bruno Senna added: “I’m really happy to start my GT career with a win. It’s been great joining Aston Martin Racing and to get a pole position and win and go home from our first WEC race of the year with so many points for the championship is unbelievable. It was a tough race; we had to push hard while avoiding accidents, but my team did a great job. We must now keep pushing hard; the competition here is very, very strong.”

Allan Simonsen, speaking for the No.95 GT Am winning car, commented: “I’m very happy on behalf of the whole team. It was a big push to get us here and to start the season with points is fantastic. To do it on Aston Martin Racing’s home turf is even better; we couldn’t be happier.”

John Gaw, Team Principal at Aston Martin Racing, concluded: “Today’s outcome was better than we anticipated. We got much more than we expected out of the first race of the season; we came here aiming to score points with all four cars. This certainly bodes well for the championship.

“To do this at our home race in Aston Martin’s centenary year is extra special. I’d like to particularly thank the technicians and engineers and all others who have worked tirelessly since Shanghai to expand to this four-car effort. We look forward, as a team, to challenging for more race wins.”

The FIA World Endurance Championship resumes in Belgium next month at the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, 4 May.

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K&N's Mike Edwards Sweeps NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Pro Stock - From Record to Win

18 May 2013

NHRA racer Mike Edwards and his all-new 2013 Chevy Pro Stock Camaro

While the 2013 season may still be young, it has been quite good one already for K&N’s Mike Edwards and his all-new 2013 Chevy Pro Stock Camaro. After taking the NHRA Pro Stock pole at the first five events of the season, including the most recent NHRA event and the 4th annual Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, Edwards finally was able to put the first check in the win column for season at the race just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina.

K&N’s Mike Edwards (2nd from top) at 4th annual Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals

Starting with the first event out of the gate for Edwards and his Interstate Batteries/K&N/I Am Second Camaro at Pomona, he has been laying down some fierce numbers in qualifying. He made his fist final round appearance of the season during the second event on the schedule at Phoenix, where he took runner-up honors and from there, headed across the country to reset the NHRA Pro Stock E.T. record during the GatorNationals in Gainesville, Florida with his 6.473.

Edwards left Florida with a semi-final finish and crossed back to the west coast where he again took the top qualifying honors during the 14th annual SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals in Las Vegas and added more points to his growing total with another semi-final showing.

Those were all just stepping stones to the weekend he would have in Concord, North Carolina.

Rain during the first day of qualifying on Friday washed out the majority of the professional sessions, with only a good handful of Pro Stock drivers getting a look at the track, and Edwards was not one of them. The following day, Edwards came right out of the gate to blaze down the zMax Dragway quarter-mile to a 6.471 showing he was well prepared for the event, even with the shortened amount of runs.

In the final session, he would follow that up with a 6.490, the quickest of the session and all he needed to back up the 6.471 from earlier to make it the new NHRA National Pro Stock E.T. record and grab his 46th career number one qualifier.

Mike Edwards wins NHRA 4-Wide Nationals in Pro Stock class

“Today was an awesome day,” Edwards said after qualifying commenced. “I never would have believed that we could be number one at the first five races. That’s so hard to do. So far, qualifying has been great, but I need to work on race day. Hopefully we can run good tomorrow.”

Now with five consecutive number one qualifiers, setting and re-setting the Pro Stock E.T. record already this season, Edwards was just lacking the icing on the cake and that was to go on to win on Sunday.

The former 2009 Pro Stock champ from Coweta, Oklahoma first faced, Frank Gugliotta, Vincent Nobile and V. Gaines in round one of the Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. It was Nobile out of the gate first, but by the 330 foot mark, Edwards had made his way past and went on to share the round win with V. Gaines.

Edwards would again face V. Gaines in the round two quad matchup along with Greg Anderson and 2013 K&N Horsepower Challenge champ, Allen Johnson. Both Gaines and Johnson turned it red, giving the instant win to Anderson and Edwards. Edwards still had plenty for the group and laid down a nice 6.482 on his way to the final round.

In an all-Camaro-final, Edwards faced Shane Gray, Erica Enders-Stevens and Greg Anderson. Edwards would use a .009 reaction time paired with 6.495 to edge out Enders-Stevens for his first win of 2013 and the 35th NHRA Pro Stock Wally of his career. In doing so, Edwards was also the first Pro Stock driver to win the Dollar General Four-Wide Nationals from the pole position and ended a dry spell that stretched back to Bristol in June of last year.

"It does feel satisfying to actually close the deal," Edwards said winning. "We've had numerous opportunities, I guess five of 'em. It does feel good to win. Anytime you can run real good and win, it feels good.”

"It was just a phenomenal day -- phenomenal weekend, really. After all the rain, we got some great weather and some great racing. It just feels good to win. It really does," said the Interstate Batteries/K&N Camaro pilot.

"We ran good, but we just were really, really conservative. I keep shooting myself in the foot on Sunday. We made a commitment that if we run really good, if we get beat it's not going to be because we squared the tires or shook the tires. We were going to get beat because something else happened, probably because of that lame-brained driver we've got," Edwards continued.

"It just feels good to go down the track every run," he said. "If you give yourself an opportunity to go to the finish line, you've got a chance to win, especially in our car."

"Just hat's off to Paul Hoskins and Dan [Cordier] and Allan [Lindsey] and all those guys. They do a tremendous job. They worked hard over the winter," he said. "Phenomenal. I don't know -- it seems like we keep getting faster and faster.”

When asked to compare this season to his 2009 title season, Edwards noted, he has gotten off to a much better start. He won five events that year, so he admitted, "wins aren't there yet. But anytime you can run good and have a chance, that's all you can ask for. Right now we're doing that. It's a long season. [We] feel good about our program, feel good about our car, and my team's coming together. One championship is awesome. Another would be great. That's a bird in the bush right now. We're just going to try to keep consistent now and try to keep the wheels on this thing."

When it comes to adding up the points, the K&N racer is quick to point out that he's "absolutely not" looking at the points at this early stage of the season.

"The first thing we do when we set out is to make the Countdown. We haven't done that yet, so we've got to keep going," Edwards explained. "It's two seasons in one. Once you get in, anything can happen in those last six [races]. It's a long season, but I like our start. I like the way our team's going. I like everything about what's happening. We've got some races to go. I hope we can get stronger."

Edwards and his team do an extensive amount of testing between events and he points out that he won’t be letting up any time in the near future.

"We test all the time. We tested Monday and Tuesday before we came here, at home in Tulsa. This class, these guys, they're blood-hungry. They don't stop for nothin'. You'd better not look back -- they'll run smooth over you. We've got to keep our heads to the grindstone, keep working away."

While Edwards may not be counting the points, he and his Interstate Battery/K&N Filters Chevy Camaro have earned their way to the top of the NHRA Pro Stock standings with their current eight-four point lead over defending Pro Stock champion, Allen Johnson. The teams will do battle again back to the dual lane tracks, starting with the O'Reilly Springnationals at Royal Purple Raceway at Baytown, Texas, just outside of Houston.

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NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Driver Ryan Gifford Wins Blue Ox 100 at Richmond International Raceway

18 May 2013

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East racer Ryan Gifford

It took Ryan Gifford more than three years and some time racing in the dirt to win his first NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race.

Gifford took the lead from Cole Custer on lap 78 and won the Blue Ox 100 at Richmond International Raceway in Virginia, the fourth race in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East schedule.

NASCAR K&N Pro Series East driver Ryan Gifford won the Blue Ox 100 race at Richmond International Raceway.

"This is something I'm going to remember for the rest of my life," Gifford said. "To come here after four years being in the series, coming up short so many times, to be able to go out and do this is just awesome. I want to celebrate it and make it a memory I'll be able to tell my children."

Gifford won his first race in 44 career starts in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.

He qualified 11th and had to work his way through the field to take the lead. Gray Gaulding won the pole and became the youngest NASCAR K&N Pro Series East driver to win a pole, breaking the mark held by Chase Elliott. Gaulding is 15 years, 2 months and 15 days.

Gaulding led the first 53 laps of the race before making contact with Corey LaJoie. Both drivers, the top two qualifiers in the race, did not return.

Custer took the lead from Gaulding on lap 54 and was out front for 24 laps. Gifford passed Custer for the lead and held it for the final 23 laps of the race at Richmond International Raceway.

Ryan Gifford celebrating his NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race win at Richmond International Raceway

"I think this one was good, but I think there's many more to come," Gifford said. "I think now we got the ball rolling, I feel like there are a 1,000 pounds lifted off my shoulders to go out and get this first win. Now we can go out there and hopefully click them off."

Brandon Gdovic passed Custer and finished in second place. After the race, he said he was happy to see Gifford finally win a race.

"I know he's been wanting one so bad," Gdovic said. "He's been in the series longer than I have. It's great to see him in Victory Lane. The win probably helps the crew more than the driver. It reflects all the work they put into the car. When the car runs wells, they did their job right."

Gdovic started seventh and like Gifford had to work his through the field to reach the front.

"The car was definitely right tonight," Gdovic said. "I think we had the car to beat. Unfortunately came up one short there. My guys put in so much work to get this new car out here. Obviously they did it right."

Custer, a rookie making his fourth start in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, finished third, but triggered a crash at the end of the race.

"I wish we could have won it," Custer said. "I feel bad about stacking up the cars behind me."

Brett Moffitt, the leader in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East standings after four races, was sixth. Gifford moved into second place in the K&N Pro Series East standings, seven points behind Moffitt.

Mackenna Bell, Gifford's teammate, was fifth. For the first time in the 26-year history of the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, a woman driver has finished in the top five in three races in a row. Kenzie Ruston finished in the top five at Greenville Pickens Speedway and Five Flags Speedway. Bell made it three in a row with a fifth-place finish at Richmond International Raceway.

The next race on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East schedule is the NASCAR Hall of Fame 150 at Bowman Gray Stadium in North Carolina on June 1.

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Vincent Jardine Becomes Latest K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes Grand Prize Winner

18 May 2013

2013 K&N Horsepower Challenge Champion Allen Johnson and Sweepstakes grand prize winner Vincent Jardine

During one of the most exciting events each season for the NHRA Pro Stock class, the 2013 K&N Horsepower Challenge more than lived up to its long history of exhilarating rounds of racing. Just as the elite eight Pro Stock drivers all had their eye on the $50,000 check to the champion, the eight K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes finalists were quite enthusiastic in their chances of winning the keys to the special edition 2013 Toyota Tundra.

Vincent Jardine won the 2013 K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes after a race win by Allen Johnson

Vincent Jardine, of Rockland, Illinois was the lucky finalist who was paired with 2008 K&N Horsepower Challenge champ and 2013 K&N Horsepower Challenge top seed, Allen Johnson. Thanks to Johnson’s second career K&N Horsepower Challenge victory, during the shootout event held during the SummitRacing.com NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Jardine instantly became the proud new owner of one fine looking brand new Toyota Tundra.

Jardine, who spends his days as a fork lift operator for Chrysler, loading body parts into a robot that does welds and makes part of the car, had never entered the K&N contest before. “My wife got me started on it actually. She had been entering it, so I thought why not, I would this year, too.”

“I used to watch drag racing a very long time ago, probably about twenty years ago. But I’ve never been to a race,” he admitted. “I had always wanted to go, but just didn’t. Well, after this one let me tell you, I’m totally hooked.”

Vincent Jardine is handed the keys to his special edition 2013 Toyota Tundra, the K&N Horsepower Challange Sweepstakes Grand Prize

Just as in previous seasons, fans simply entered on K&N’s website for a chance to be selected in the random drawing as one of the eight finalists in the K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes. Jardine was quite surprised when he received the call that he would soon be flying to Las Vegas to take part in the festivities and the shot at the grand prize. “I was at work when I got the call,” he explained. “It was hard for me to hear and all I could really hear was the part about winning a trip to Vegas. I had to walk outside of the plant to be able to hear what the call was really about and she then told me about my chances to win a truck. I thought awesome, I’ve always wanted a truck my whole life and I’ve never had one.”

“When I called my wife and told her that I had just got a call from K&N and that we were going to Vegas, she was really excited,” he added.

Once at the event, Jardine joined his fellow finalists to be paired with one of the eight NHRA Pro Stock drivers who would be competing in the Challenge. “Oh, everybody was so nice and we all got along so well and just had a great time,” he explained. “I actually made a couple of new friends while I was there. This whole experience was awesome and a once in a lifetime ordeal. Not very many folks can say they got to go to the drags like this and win a truck. We had such a wonderful time thanks to everyone at K&N being so awesome, they are really a class act.”

When it comes to the K&N Horsepower Challenge, any of the racers could win the event, but when Jardine was paired with the number one qualifier, Allen Johnson, he certainly liked his chances of going home a big winner. “When I looked at all the names that were in for the race and was kind of trying to figure out who I hoped to be paired with, it was Allen Johnson,” he explained. “So when I drew his name, I was totally shocked like there was no way I just drew his name. I was just floored.”

As Allen Johnson made his way through the rounds, Jardine pointed out just how intense the excitement was when he was whisked to the top end of the track to prepare for the final round in the K&N Horsepower Challenge. “Oh it was crazy with the ESPN guys, Toyota and K&N guys down there. I was asking everyone how was I going to know who was winning because I wasn’t going to be able to see the lights on top of the [score]board and they said here, just look at the monitors.”

When Jardine witnessed the final round pairing between Erica Enders-Stevens and Allen Johnson, he could hardly contain the extreme enthusiasm. “When I saw Erica fall behind and Allen take the finish line, I had so many emotions going through me, I was just too excited. I think you could see on ESPN2 that I may have acted like a little bit of a fool,” he laughed. “But there aren’t many times in your life that you get to be that excited and act like I fool, I suppose. I went over and shook my competitor’s hand and you know, we became really good friends that weekend. I actually wanted Glen to ride in the new truck with me back up when we went in front of the crowd, but [laughs] they said he could ride in it another time.”

“Allen and his whole team were just so hospitable to us the whole weekend,” he added. “Thanks to this spectacular opportunity we won from K&N, we are already looking forward to our next drag race. Allen already got us tickets for the NHRA race that’s close to home in Joliet. I can’t wait for it to be June and get to go back.”

“I can’t thank everyone at K&N and Toyota enough,” he stressed. “This is an experience that I will hold dear and cherish for many years to come.”

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NHRA Super Comp Racer Al Kenny Wins 4th Annual Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals

18 May 2013

Al Kenny puts his JEGS/K&N Engineering Super Comp dragster in the winner’s circle

The defending 2012 NHRA Super Comp world champion, Al Kenny just might be working on keeping that number one on his Dan Page dragster. During his most recent outing, for the 4th annual Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals in Concord, North Carolina, Kenny whipped his way through six rounds to put his JEGS/K&N Engineering ride into the Super Comp winner’s circle.

4th annual Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals win for Al Kenny

Time runs for the sportsman classes were conducted on Friday morning of the event, well before the rain came in and washed out most of the day’s on-track activities. With such a change in air and track conditions the following morning for first round of eliminations, Kenny refers to the time runs the day before as more of “exhibition runs”, since there wasn’t a whole lot of info drivers gained from their first day on the track that could be used on Saturday.

“The data was showing almost a tenth and a half faster Saturday morning than the day before,” Kenny explained. “That is a tricky track anyway with the winds. We had some tailwinds, but it’s kind of a stadium style track, so you’re not really sure where the winds are picking you up. That one and Chicago are probably the two worst because the winds get to swirling around.”

With everyone pretty much in the same boat when it came to lack of data for round one on Saturday morning, Kenny pointed out the air and track conditions were certainly leaning to the cool side. “It was cold Saturday morning, even by Canadian standards,” he joked. “My tires were chucking pretty hard and as I came up on [Ed] Richardson, I saw the back end of his car start to waggle a little bit, so I thought, well this is good for me. Basically the cold track meant a super slow race and I didn’t think it was a close as it was down there until I saw the time slip.”

That would set Kenny up to meet Chuck Westcott and his 1996 Beretta in round two. “There’s a big mile-per-hour difference between us, so I tried to dial it close,” he said. “He was way out on me and I knew there was no way I was getting there. With that massive air change and everyone was dead slow in round one, because I think the track was so cold, most of us ran mid-nineties, so we knew we couldn’t go back up there and run a ninety-five and hope to win the round. So, I’m just guessing here, but that he sped it up to make sure that he ran at least a ninety and by that point the track is better and he was way fast.”

NHRA Super Comp champion Al Kenny

Round three, Kenny and his K&N dragster would face Todd Kujawa who in the previous round did not get a hit at the tree and that may have been the reason for his very late light. “When I went past the tree I thought holy cow his stage light is still on,” laughed Kenny. “Actually, it wasn’t to that extreme, but I’m getting better at saying man, I think I got that one and that time I was absolutely sure.”

Kenny used his .022 to Kujawa’s .090 to safely take the stripe with ease and move on to the quarterfinals to pair up with Ken Griffiths. There, Kenny turned on the win light in his lane once again with his lesser of two evils double breakout, 8.888 to his opponent’s 8.871, thanks in part to his one full hundredth starting line advantage.

The semifinal would be the round Kenny would consider his “lucky” round of the weekend after making it past Danny Waters Jr. “That was just me tightening it up almost a little too much,” Kenny admitted of the .0003 margin of victory at the stripe. “Again, I didn’t think it was that close and I had backed into him and saw my win light come on. Now, if you would have asked me before I got to the ticket booth, I would have said yeah, it was close but maybe like five thou or so and I had no idea it was three ten-thou.”

Kenny was now moving into the Super Comp championship round to line up with Jason Lynch where it would be a quick one when Lynch turned it red.

“My four rounds on Sunday, my sixty foot only moved three thou,” Kenny pointed out. “My window was tremendous [range of reaction times] and for the final, we just bumped up the launch RPM. I was like .022 to .026 every hit and feeling like I’m really hitting it, so apparently that’s all I got, so we gave it some more RPM. Honestly, two-hundred RPM shouldn’t have moved it up that much, so I’m guessing that final round adrenaline, better concentration or a combination of above, well I came up double-oh.”

“That was kinda cool,” he continued about his reaction time. “I was happy to see the red-light, but had he not been red, I think I would have had a pretty good shot at it with a light like that.”

The reigning NHRA Super Comp champion uses numerous K&N Engineering products not only on his trusty Dan Page dragster that his grabbed the Super Comp Wally with during the national event, but also on the entire fleet of Kenny family race cars that son Jason and Samantha drive. “This dragster has the 2nd Gen K&N composite scoop with the high flowing K&N filter, plus we use the K&N HP-3002 wrench-off oil filter and various other smaller filters on the breather tanks and such.”

While Kenny is pleased with the performance he enjoys with the K&N filters on the race cars, it just may be the excellent results he has experienced getting to and from the events with the addition of the K&N Heavy Duty filter on the team’s semi chassis based motorhome.

“Already this spring, we have had a couple of truck drivers ask us at truck stops about the K&N filters,” Kenny said. “When Greg Boutte at K&N had us try them, he told us we wouldn’t down shift going up hills. I thought, OK that’s the salesperson in him and wow, let me tell you, you can feel the difference. Going up hills with the rig is incredible. Like the big hill on I-77 coming out of Charlotte when you hit the Virginia line [approximately 1,500 ft climb over a six-mile grade], the last third of that, I used to go up in ninth gear at about 35 MPH. The last two trips with my K&N air filter, I’m going up in eleventh gear at 55 MPH.”

“I mean that’s huge,” he stressed of the results. “Well, diesels are all about compression and if it’s flowing a lot more air, well the compression is going to be a lot better and I can tell, more power.”

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