Philly Racing Team 3rd at
NJMP
- Skavnes, Aquilante Finish 3rd -
Phoenixville,
Pa. – Aug. 31, 2008
Racing before a sizable
crowd of friends, family, and guests from Subaru of
America, Inc’s nearby corporate offices, Subaru Road
Racing Team drivers Kris Skavnes and Andrew Aquilante
raced their Subaru Legacy 2.5GT spec.B to a third place
finish in round 8 of the Grand-Am KONI Challenge series
race on the New Jersey Motorsports Park’s Thunderbolt
Raceway circuit.
Their finish, less than
two seconds away from the class win, holds Skavnes in
second place in the Street Tuner class Drivers’
Championship standings with two races remaining this
season. The team’s cars are prepared and managed by ICY
/ Phoenix Racing, based in nearby Phoenixville, Pa.
Aquilante hails from Chester Springs, Pa., and Skavnes’
residence in Sparta, N.J., is even closer to the new
track.
“There was a lot of
carnage in the race,” noted Skavnes, who got to run many
of his race laps under the control of the safety car.
“Had it not been for the extended caution flag sessions,
the strategy to pit our second car when we did could
have produced different results for us.” As it was,
co-drivers Don Knowles, Pittsboro, N.C., and David
Rosenblum, Langhorne, Pa., finished 21st in
the class.”
Joe Aquilante and
Rosenblum co-partner the ICY / Phoenix Racing team which
campaigns a pair of Subaru Legacy 2.5GT spec.B race cars
in the Grand-Am KONI Challenge series.
The team’s Subaru Legacy
2.5GT spec.B race cars are originally manufactured at
Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. (SIA), in Lafayette,
Ind., as factory showroom vehicles and prepared by ICY
Racing / Phoenix Performance for racing application.
“The entire team really
excelled today,” beamed James Han, motorsports marketing
manager for Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA). “Racing here
at NJMP has been a learning experience for nearly all
the teams as it’s an entirely new track. The performance
by SRRT (Subaru Road Racing Team) certainly represented
a source of pride for all the Subaru associates and our
guests today. With the dusty conditions that everyone
experienced on this new race course, our drivers
certainly applied their Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel
Drive Systems to good effect.”
The Millville was
televised by SPEED TV to air Sept. 7 at 2pm ET.
The Subaru Road Racing
Team is sponsored by Subaru of
America, Inc., Subaru Tecnica International (STI),
Subaru Performance Tuning (SPT), Subaru of Indiana
Automotive, Inc. (SIA), Automotive Racing Products,
Lista, Rotary Lifts, JRZ, EcuTek, Perrin, Cusco,
Carbonetic, Hawk Brakes, Quarter Master Industries, Disc
Brakes Australia, Freem, and Racing Radios. The
cars are prepared by ICY/Phoenix Racing.
About ICY/Phoenix Racing
Based in
Phoenixville, Pa., ICY/Phoenix is a collaborative
partnership between Dave Rosenblum (ICY Racing) and Joe
Aquilante (Phoenix Performance) which has over 70 years
of cumulative racing experience. This organization
represents the factory Subaru effort as the Subaru Road
Racing Team (SRRT) in the 2008 Grand-Am KONI Challenge
Series. The team's 4000 sq. ft. race shop is located
approximately 35 miles northwest of downtown
Philadelphia. Drivers Chuck Hemmingson, Dave Rosenblum,
Kristian Skavnes, Andrew Aquilante and Don Knowles race
two Legacy 2.5GT spec.B cars. Last season, ICY/Phoenix
celebrated a winning year, finishing the season with one
pole position and two ST Class wins in six races. For
more information about the team and the cars, go to
www.icyphoenixracing.com or call Dave Rosenblum at (215)
801-7827; or Joe Aquilante at (610) 482-0141.