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2010 K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes Winners Gather to See Who Will Win Harley Davidson Motorcycle
K&N flew eight K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes Contestants to Norwalk, Ohio for the 2010 K&N Horsepower Challenge. There a new Harley-Davidson® Street Bob® motorcycle was waiting for one of the eight contestants. See how the race unfolds, and who will become the owner of a brand new Harley®.
2010 K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes Winners Gather to See Who Will Win Harley Davidson Motorcycle
NHRA Sportsman Divers David Rampy, Kathy Fisher, Shawn Langdon and Luke Bogacki
K&N spoke to NHRA Sportsman racers David Rampy, Kathy Fisher, Shawn Langdon and Luke Bogacki at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. Many NHRA sportsman racers were present for a night of exciting race action.
NHRA Sportsman Divers David Rampy, Kathy Fisher, Shawn Langdon and Luke Bogacki
2010 K&N Horsepower Challenge Overview
Eight NHRA Pro Stock Drivers prepare to battle it out at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, for the 2010 K&N Horsepower Challenge Sweepstakes. A new Harley Davidson® Street Bob®, courtesy of K&N, was waiting for one of the eight lucky contestants. Watch as things heat up between racers as they compete for the K&N Horsepower Challenge Championship.
Being good is one thing, being lucky and good is an unstoppable combination for Forsberg.
Some nights it hardly matters how much garage time you invested into a race, or how focused and perfectly psyched-up you are, could be tonight a cracked muffler bearing takes you out of the running and those precious points go to someone else. You just never know. Ultimately in the final minutes racing often becomes an educated game of chance, a spin of the wheel by the hands of fate. It is precisely that aspect, where sometimes you're the bug and other times you're the windshield, the sheer unpredictability of it, that makes it so gosh dang addictive.
That's right, count'em, K&N sponsored Andy Forsberg now has five Civil War Championships.
Take what transpired during Andy Forsberg's last two Civil War races for championship points, were it a movie script it would certainly have been dismissed as too hokey an ending, in racing terms though it's just pure pharmaceutical grade drama.
Last weekend the K&N sponsored Forsberg and his Autism Awareness, Coors Light number 47 car headed to Watsonville and Placerville, California, for of the most anticipated Civil War finales in recent history.
Friday night in the first of two 360 Civil War contests, at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville, Forsberg was 12th quick out of 37 cars, and finished third in his heat , leaving him to start 11th in the A main event. He got up as high as sixth at one point, but eventually finished a disappointing 12th place. Forsberg would now go into the final night of Civil War racing ten points behind leader Sean Becker. Becker and Forsberg are longtime race friends with a great deal of mutual respect, but on the track they're arch rivals, and friendship takes a backseat until the final round and a victor has been declared.
In the past, Becker and Forsberg rarely finished a race far apart, which didn't bode well for Forsberg's chances of winning his Fifth career Civil War Championship – enter the fickle finger of fate. When the 22-car field lined up on the track, Becker's familiar red number 2 sprint car was absent from the field. It was later discovered that a sheared magneto pin was the culprit that ended Becker's championship run. Up until that point, he all but had the championship sewn up, leading in points all year until this final contest.
Forsberg now would only have to finish six spots in front of third place Herman Klein, to steal the championship. At the green flag Forsberg immediately jumped into the second place spot behind the leader, with every intention of maintaining his position until the finish. By lap 20 though his car was starting to get loose, and he lost just enough speed to allow the third place car to move in on him. Then down the backstretch they made contact and Forsberg went spinning.
And providence intervened yet again, for the incident occurred just prior to officials determining that more than 75 laps had been run, and a red flag fuel stop would be required if an additional caution flag flew, which gave Forsberg's crew ample time to make needed repairs to the bent fender in the pit area.
When the race restarted Klein was now one lap down and Forsberg would only need to finish to be crowned the 2010 Civil War Champion for the fifth time in his career. Taking no more chances, Forsberg went back on the track and cruised to a comfortable 13th place finish.
Next week October 1st and 2nd Forsberg will be driving the number 47 Autism Awareness Car at the Pacific Sprint Fall Nationals at the Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California.
This is Hull's second full year with K&N Engineering, and he commented that he's particularly thankful for their continuing support. Photos by Mermaid Photos.
On July 4, 1996, Jerrod Hull of Sikeston, Missouri piloted his number 11 sprinter to victory at Auto Value Parts Raceway in Benton, Missouri; it was his first ASCS National sprint car win ever.
The ASCS Win at Granite City, 14 years after Hull's first ASCS win, is above all satisfying, because it comes after a low period in his career that had him thinking about throwing in the towel. Photos by Mermaid Photos.
More than 14 years later Hull once again stands atop the podium at an ASCS National event, this time at Tri-City Speedway, in Granite City, Illinois. The win comes off of a couple of the most devastating months of his career, as Hull had been sidelined many weeks to recuperate from injuries suffered in two racing incidents. During that low period the veteran driver even briefly contemplated hanging it up. Given the circumstances, which of these two wins subsequently delivered the K&N sponsored driver with the most fulfillment?
"The most recent one has got to be more satisfying," remarked Hull. "We kind of started out the night in the hole starting so far back but made some changes. We got a couple of lucky breaks in the race, but we had a solid enough car, I felt like we could have gotten up front the way we were. My team did an excellent job getting prepared for what we had to do."
Hull made it to the feature event the hard way, by luck of the draw, he had a tough heat race that saw him finish fifth. This relegated him to the B-feature of the night where he earned the transfer to the evening's main program.
"This is just a huge win for this team. We started out the season kind of on a streak of wins and top fives, but that came to a bit of a halt. I am just humbled right now and yet excited all at the same time," commented Hull after the race.
Regarding the two mishaps that had him sidelined, Hull said, "About mid-way through the year we had a problem with a component of the car. We destroyed two cars within three races and obviously were not pleased."
"After the first incident I decided to sit out a few weeks to make sure I was healed up well enough to be able to handle the physical toll these cars can put on a person's body. We came back and the same thing happened to the car, so I decided to sit out and recheck every aspect of the car. We think we have found the problem, but don't care to comment at this time until all tests are conclusive with what we believe to be the problem."
Hull bears witness to the truth that we learn our most valuable lessons during the ebbs in our lives, those periods filled with reflection, rather than when things are rosy.
"The time off allowed me to spend some extra time with my very supportive family. It did give me time to think about racing and my career. Many of us in this sport tend to think after things like that, that maybe it is time to hang up the helmet. Honestly, I thought about it," remarked a pensive Hull.
"But, then I realized that there are still a lot of things I would like to do with my career. There are places I would like to race again, event's that I have always had my eye on winning, and places I have yet to race. It would be very hard for me to walk away from it all at this point. The main thing at this point is that I am back with a better formed, and focused team, and with great supporters like K&N Filters on board with us.
This is Jerrod Hull Motorsports and K&N Filters second year together, Hull utilizes the K&N Filter box for both his 360 and 410 power-plants along with K&N Oil Filters.
"We will continue to work forward with our game plan of an "Outlaw Style" schedule. I really enjoy being able to go to whatever race I feel I can win, and not be tied down to one specific schedule," explained Hull.
"This has been the formula for success over the years and I find it the most enjoyable. We have some big races coming up at the end of the year that we have to be prepared for. Probably the biggest event we have circled on the calendar right now is the Short Track Nationals in Little Rock. We have been close a few times over the years, and we think we have figured some things out to make this year as successful as years past."
