Subaru Road Racing Team Focuses
Efforts for Miami Round
Phoenixville, PA
– March 8, 2009
With round two of the Grand-Am KONI
Sports Car Challenge looming this weekend, the
Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) views the upcoming
race to run March 14 at Homestead-Miami Speedway as
an opportunity to build upon their strong 2nd
place finish in Daytona and leave Florida with
valuable championship points firmly in-hand.
“Our pole and second place finish at
Daytona [International Speedway] in January gave us
cause for optimism,” said Joe Aquilante, owner of
the Phoenixville, Pa.-based Phoenix Racing team
which builds the team’s Subaru Legacy 2.5GT spec.B
race car and serves as factory race partner for
Subaru of America, Inc.
“The Subaru symmetrical all-wheel
drive system should serve as an advantage exiting
the infield turns at Homestead-Miami, and the
turbocharged 2.5 liter boxer engine configuration
will help on the oval track which makes up about 70%
of a lap,” Aquilante added.
SRRT teammates, Andrew Aquilante,
Chester Springs, Pa., and Kris Skavnes, Sparta,
N.J., will again share the #111 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT
spec.B, which qualified on the pole in Daytona, led
31 laps and finished
second in the race over a field of 32 other Street
Tuner competitors. The duo combined to lead the most
laps of the race, while Andrew Aquilante’s 29 laps
led were the most of any driver in the two-class
race.
This is the third season for the
Subaru Road Racing Team, with its Subaru Legacy in
the Street Tuner class of the KONI Sports Car
Challenge series.
“Our result
from Daytona bodes well for our race season and is a
positive testament to the team’s ability to build a
competitive race unit from our performance-oriented
Legacy platform”, said James Han, motorsports
marketing manager for Subaru of America, Inc. “It’s
early in the season but I feel confident that the
team’s winter preparations will pay us dividends.”
Practice for the race is Thursday and
Friday on the 2.3-mile, 11-turn layout which uses
three-fourths of the track’s NASCAR oval, before
diving into the infield portion of the track.
Qualifying will be Friday at 4:05pm
ET, with the 2 ½-hour race taking the green flag
Saturday at 2:30pm.
Sponsors for
SRRT include Subaru Of America, Inc., Subaru Tecnica
International (STI), Subaru Performance Tuning (SPT),
Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. (SIA), Automotive
Racing Products, Hawk Brakes, Quarter Master, Ecutek,
Racing Radios, Lista, Rotary Lifts, Cusco,
Carbonetic, Mac Tools, Hella, Perrin, and Vedalo HD.
About SRRT Phoenix Racing
SRRT Phoenix LLC represents
Subaru of America’s road racing efforts in the
Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Challenge and is owned and
managed by Joe Aquilante of Phoenix Performance,
Inc. The team’s 4000 sq. ft. facility is in
Phoenixville, Pa., 40 miles west of Philadelphia,
PA. Team drivers Kristian Skavnes and Andrew
Aquilante race a Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT spec.B. in the
Street Tuner class. For more information about the
team and the cars, call Joe Aquilante at (610)
482-0141.
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