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Indiana Sprint Week Racer Chad Boat is Unstoppable at Kokomo Speedway

Chad Boat is a second generation racer. The genetics came through after he captured Sunday night’s third leg of the 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Sprint Week. Boat dominated the Kokomo Speedway, leading all 30 laps of the event.

Billy Boat dominated Kokomo Speedway during the 22nd edition of Indiana Sprint Week
Billy Boat dominated Kokomo Speedway during the 22nd edition of Indiana Sprint Week
The win was Boat’s third sprint car triumph at the oval track, and his fourth consecutive feature win. “We had a little trouble qualifying,” Boat said. “But, overall it turned out to be a great night. The win is just what we needed.”

Indiana Sprint Week will return to action in Terre Haute
Indiana Sprint Week will return to action in Terre Haute
Boat sprinted to an early lead over pole sitter Brad Sweet and built a comfortable advantage. He was rarely pressured by a revolving cast of second-place challengers including Sweet, Bryan Clauson, Hunter Schuerenberg, Josh Wise and Blake Fitzpatrick.

On lap 12, Boat had a scare. Wise mounted a low side charge on the leader, but his momentum was spoiled by a caution. When the race resumed, Boat moved to the low groove on both ends of the oval and checked his Billy Boat Performance Exhaust Impact Racing Maxim machine out for a first place win.

Clauson took second, Jan Stanbrough was third and Sweet took fourth. Hud Cone rounded out fifth place. “I feel good about our Sprint Week so far,” said Boat. “We ran third at Lawrenceburg, and fourth at Gas City. If we keep qualifying well and putting ourselves in a position to win, I think I have a good shot at the Sprint Week Title.”

The first time Chad Boat went to a race track he was only two weeks old. His father Billy Boat raced cars at Indy. “I’ve used K&N Engineering Products for a long time,” said Billy Boat. “When Chad starting racing K&N made the air filters and oil filters we turned to. We are a racing family and we wouldn’t use any other filter.”

The win was Boat’s second career USAC sprint car victory. He is currently 15 points behind Clauson in the Sprint Week standings. The nine day tour will resume at the Terre Haute Action Track, Boswell, Bloomington and Haubstadt.

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Formula Drift 2010 Falken Ford Mustang Wrecked and Repaired at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Track temperatures reached 145 degrees under the hot desert sun when Vaughn Gittin Jr., hit the wall in his 2010 Ford Mustang, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires
Track temperatures reached 145 degrees under the hot desert sun when Vaughn Gittin Jr., hit the wall in his 2010 Ford Mustang, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires

Gittin though he could drive to the pits after he hit the wall, then realized his 2010 Ford Mustang was on two wheels, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires
Gittin though he could drive to the pits after he hit the wall, then realized his 2010 Ford Mustang was on two wheels, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires

Teamwork in the Falken Tires pits readied the 2010 Mustang for competition at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires
Teamwork in the Falken Tires pits readied the 2010 Mustang for competition at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires
Vaughn Gittin Jr., returned to drift action at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in his repaired 2010 Ford Mustang, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires
Vaughn Gittin Jr., returned to drift action at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in his repaired 2010 Ford Mustang, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires

Vaughn Gittin Jr., pushed through the pain and went back on the track in the Formula Drift Pro Championship chase
Vaughn Gittin Jr., pushed through the pain and went back on the track in the Formula Drift Pro Championship chase

Vaughn Gittin Jr. made it to the qualifying line with only 10 seconds to go after repairs were executed on his 2010 Ford Mustang, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires
Vaughn Gittin Jr. made it to the qualifying line with only 10 seconds to go after repairs were executed on his 2010 Ford Mustang, photo by John Choi, provided by Falken Tires
“When you throw cars at walls at 90 mph they don’t always go the way we want them to,” said Vaughn Gittin, Jr. after hitting the wall at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in his 2010 Ford Mustang.

Gittin went to Round 4 of Formula Drift action expecting a good run. The Falken team just came off a second place podium finish at The Gauntlet in New Jersey. “Thursday night we had an incredible practice, the car was awesome,” said Gittin. “The track temperature on Friday in Nevada was at least 145 degrees and it caught us off guard.”

Before qualifying began, Gittin hit the wall hard and tore the right front corner off his Mustang. “The front right wheel took the impact,” he said. “All I saw was an explosion of parts. Everything ripped off the front corner of the car, the shock, springs and wheels. I was in the zone at the time and it all happened in slow motion.”

Gittin had about two seconds to react and did everything he could to get the car to change direction. “I tried to transition back away from the wall but I could not,” he said. “When everything stopped and I knew I was okay, I thought about driving back to the pits and then realized I was only on two wheels.”

Fortunately the safety equipment on the Falken Ford Mustang did its job. “My back is sore and my neck is sore,” he said. “It was the hardest hit of my career. I just blocked the accident out of my mind and knew I had to get back out on the track. We’re so close to the championship anything else would not be imaginable.”

The entire Falken Team, along with assistance from Autosport Dynamics pitched in to completely rebuild the front end of the Mustang in two hours. Teamwork and dedication paid off which led to salvation. “We got up to the qualifying line with only 10 seconds to go,” said Gittin. ‘If it had been five seconds later we would not have been able to compete. We were able to advance to the top 16, but one of the tires caught a piece of debris and that hurt us.”

At the end of the day, Gittin remained 4th overall in points and only 43 points away from first place. Gittin's Drift Alliance teammate Chris Forsberg moved to top position overall in the chase for the Formula Drift Pro Championship.

Gittin has put his heart and soul into this sport. He also used K&N products long before starting his professional career. “I read all the flow charts and realized K&N was the best for me because of the abuse I put my cars through,” he said. “When I’m in a cloud of smoke on the track, it’s not just smoke. That cloud is filled with rubber parts and without K&N air filters my motors would be damaged. K&N oil filters also keep metal debris out of my engines.”

The 2010 Ford Mustang is on its way to North Carolina for repairs. “By the next drift it will be ready to go,” said Gittin. Formula DRIFT returns to Evergreen Speedway near Seattle, Washington August 7-8.

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Late Model Dirt Series Racer has Back to Back Track Events in Points Chase

Two Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events were on K&N sponsored driver Ray Cook’s calendar. Cook travelled to Ohio and Tennessee to compete in separate events and wound up fifth overall in the chase for points.

North Carolina dirt racer travels for points in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
North Carolina dirt racer travels for points in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
The Brasstown, North Carolina racer drove his D&R Motorsports No. 53 MasterSbilt House Car with K&N Products. “Our K&N filters protect our engines in this type of dirt racing,” said Cook. “We count on great filtration and additional horsepower for our engines with K&N.”

Cook finished second in his heat race at the Muskingum County Speedway in Zanesville, Ohio and took eighth place in the $10,000 to win feature event. Next on the agenda was the Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap, Tennessee where he ran third in his heat. Unfortunately, he had problems during the $10,000 to win event and would up in seventeenth place.

Cook still has a chance to climb the ranks in his series. He will make repairs and continue the points chase.

Next up for the D&R Motorsports team will be two Late Model Dirt Series races at the North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, Alabama and Magnolia Motors Speedway in Columbus, Mississippi.

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Formula DRIFT Pro Championship Points Leader is Chris Forsberg in his Nissan 350Z

A sold out crowd sat through triple digit temperatures to watch Formula Drift action at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Chris Forsberg moved to top position overall in the chase for the Formula Drift Pro Championship, named Round 4, All In. The custom built course in Nevada, is one of the fastest drifting circuits in the world.

Chris Forsberg moved to first position overall in his the chase for the Formula Drift Pro Championship
Chris Forsberg moved to first position overall in his the chase for the Formula Drift Pro Championship
Forsberg took over the point lead in the NOS Energy Drink/Massis Nissan 350Z with K&N air and oil filters. Forsberg battled Ryan Tuerck in Round 8. He then went on to defeat Tyler McQuarrie for a third place podium finish and top points in the series.
Nos Energy Drink Massix Nissan 350Z with K&N air and oil filters at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for Formula Drift Round 4, All In
Nos Energy Drink Massix Nissan 350Z with K&N air and oil filters at Las Vegas Motor Speedway for Formula Drift Round 4, All In
Formula DRIFT crowd braved triple digit temperatures at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Formula DRIFT crowd braved triple digit temperatures at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

“Tyler and I both lost in the semi-finals so we had to run against each other for a third place finish,” said Forsberg. “I was thinking about the last time I ran against him and had my mental notes ready for this battle. His car puts out a lot of smoke. I just drove into the smoke and hoped he was driving as fast as I was. It was a super tight battle, but I took the podium.”

Drivers faced a different venue in Nevada. The event started at 4 pm and continued past midnight. “It’s so hot in Vegas, the track temperature is still 100 degrees at midnight,” said Forsberg. “It was nice to run at night and it’s great to have such awesome fans. The crowd stayed and gathered around the podium around 1 am.”

Forsberg currently has 307 points and Ryan Tuerck has 294 points. Samuel Hubinette rounds out the top three in the 2009 Formula DRIFT professional Championship Series with 271 points.

My K&N filters took the heat, took the track debris, rubber and the smoke and continued to give me power,” said Forsberg. “K&N also protects my engine.”

Formula DRIFT returns to Evergreen Speedway near Seattle, Washington August 7-8.

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