Subaru Road Racing Team Prepares
for Challenging Weekend
- Subaru drivers Aquilante,
Skavnes now 2nd in Driver Championship points
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Phoenixville, PA – July 15, 2009
Imagine driving in a two-and-a-half hour race event in
the middle of a July Saturday afternoon in Alabama. The
first thought that comes to mind may be: “We’re gonna
sweat buckets!”
Yet, Subaru Road Racing Team (SRRT) drivers Andrew
Aquilante and Kristian Skavnes will be conditioned and
prepared for this Saturday’s Grand-Am KONI Sports Car
Challenge series race at Barber Motorsports Park near
Birmingham, Ala.
Their race car is the #111 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT spec.B.,
with Subaru one of nine car manufacturers represented in
the KONI series’ Street Tuner class.
Andrew and Kris arrive to the race (televised on SPEED
TV, July 25, Noon ET) sitting second in Driver
Championship points, after seven of 11 races.
“Two things they need to remember all weekend – the
whole team needs to remember,” noted team owner Joe
Aquilante. “Stay hydrated and focus on the big picture.
No fender-bender scraps on a tight track like this
because if you’re in the pits for anything other than
your single fuel stop, your day has gone bad.”
The 2.3-mile, 16-turn Barber layout is one of the
busiest and slowest tracks, in terms of average
miles-per-hour speed, that the teams will visit this
year.
“This is a plus for us,” Aquilante added. “The Subaru
Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive system should give us better
‘dig’ out of the turns and up the hills, much like we
see at tracks like Mid-Ohio.”
Aquilante owns the Phoenixville, Pa.-based SRRT Phoenix
outfit which prepares the team’s Subaru Legacy 2.5GT
spec.B race car and serves as factory race partner for
Subaru of America, Inc. This is SRRT’s third season
racing the Subaru.
“Kris and Chuck Hemmingson scored a solid second place
for Subaru at Barber in 2006,” added James Han,
Motorsports Marketing Manager for Subaru of America,
Inc. “We’ve got a capable and competitive platform in
the Subaru Legacy 2.5GT spec.B, and the team’s ability
to extract maximum potential from the #111 car will
serve us well as the championship winds down.”
Qualifying is scheduled for Saturday at 12:10pm (ET)
with the race taking the green flag at 3:50pm (ET). Fans
can follow a live timing and scoring feed for the race
at
www.grand-am.com.
Sponsors for SRRT include Subaru Of America, Inc.,
Subaru Tecnica International (STI), Subaru Performance
Tuning (SPT), Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. (SIA),
VAC Motorsports, Automotive Racing Products, Hawk
Brakes, Rockland Standard Gear, 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 32,000
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,
or go to
www.phoenixperformance.net.
Fans can visit the team’s website at
www.srrtphoenix.com