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Combine Japanese engineering with Swedish styling and the result is a great
little all wheel drive car called the Saab 9-2X. It's a marriage made in heaven and an
exceptional buy for a Saab. MSRP's remain unchanged in 2006 starting around
$22,990.
Replacement Air Filter for the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Saab 9-2x
The Saab's sister is the Subaru WRX made by Fuji Heavy Industries, said
Saab of Santa Ana parts manager Scott Pritchett. "It's a great little car that's
smaller than the traditional Saab, but rides like a luxury Saab," he said.
K&N Engineering has released a new lifetime replacement air filter (33-2336)
for the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Saab 9-2X 2.0L H4 and 2.5L H4.
Saab of Santa Ana and Saab of Mission Viejo carry K&N products for Saab
customers. It's one of the few aftermarket parts we carry because K&N is a
product our customers want, said Pritchett.
"This Saab has the easiest engine to work on," said Pritchett. "It's a matter of
a few screws to add a K&N filter. The 9-2X goes hand in hand with K&N and our
sports car enthusiasts." The washable, reusable, high flow flat panel filter is
custom designed to fit in your factory air box. Simply remove the disposable
filter and replace it with a K&N.
K&N stock replacement air filters for street vehicles are covered by our
famous K&N Million-Mile Warranty and will be the last air filter your vehicle
will ever need.
The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach was a struggle for 2003 Rolex Series
champion Terry Borcheller.
Race Car Driver Terry Borcheller
From the onset, defending race and series champion Sebastien Bourdais dominated
throughout the weekend, leading nearly every practice and winning both sessions
of qualifying before his record win.
The race is on a 1.986-mile, 11-turn circuit that goes through city streets
between downtown Long Beach and the Pacific Ocean. Borcheller’s co-driver,
Harrison Brix was behind the wheel for the first part of 74 laps.
As Bourdais led the field into the first turn of the Champ Car World Series,
five cars behind him crashed while trying to get through a tight corner. Mario
Dominguez hit teammate Paul Tracy from behind. Tracy was turned around and then
got slammed again as Oriol Servia, Bourdais’ teammate Bruno Junqueira and A.J.
Allmendinger were collected in the aftermath.
“I was standing in the pit watching,” said Borcheller. “Harrison, my co-driver
was behind the crash, it was a scary moment.” The only injury in the five car
crash was a bruised knee, said Borcheller. Four of the contenders were knocked
out of the city’s seaside street course. Dominguez’s was able to continue,
however, and finished 4th.
Harrison Brix returned to the pits. “It was my turn after the pit stop. I
started 7th or 8th and moved up to 5th or 6th place,” said Borcheller. “I
immediately starting dealing with handling issues and knew I was going to get
passed. I was trying to maintain my position.”
Borcheller was driving his Doran Ford No. 77 in the event. “I ended up grabbing
the tire wall with the wing and pulled the wing off,” he said. “In the end we
finished 22nd out of 26.”
We were part of Saturday evening’s 90-minute Daytona Prototype-only race on the
streets of Long Beach, California for the first time in the Champ Car Series,
said Borcheller. The winner, Sebastien Bourdais went on to a record-setting
performance averaging 87.268 mph in the win.
“That’s behind us,” said Borcheller. “Next is VIRginia International Raceway
where we hope to do a lot better.”
Borcheller has 6 professional Series Drivers Championships and 57 Professional
Race wins in 7 series at 20 tracks. He uses the stock K&N Engineering air filter
on his vehicles when he races. “I’ve never had a problem with the K&N filter,
K&N products have always been part of my racing life,” said Borcheller. “The air
filters always give me more power and better fuel economy.”
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For the first time this year blue Checker, Schuck’s, Kragen driver Phil Burkart
found his day to be over after the first round, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
K&N Filter on Team Worsham Car
Burkart had a great start to the 2006 NHRA POWERade season, going 6-4 at
the first four races to get the No. 4 spot in points, prior to the weekend at
“The Strip” in Las Vegas. Phil Burkart and his blue CSK Funny Car team use K&N
Engineering oil filters (HP-5001)
every time they race.
On Friday night, Burkart secured a position in the top half of the field with a
4.773 which was good enough for the No. 7 spot on Sunday. This was the second
consecutive No. 7 position for the CSK driver.
“We were about where we wanted to be for race day,” said Burkart. “We were
pretty aggressive on Saturday, after the nice run on Friday night, and the last
run was actually so aggressive we almost did a wheelstand out there. Still, the
car was reacting to what (co-crew chiefs) Chris Cunningham and Marc Denner were
telling it, so we felt pretty good about our chances on Sunday. The hard part to
take was the fact we qualified in the top half, but we still had Whit Bazemore
to run on Sunday. That’s a good team over there, and they’d had a rough start to
the season. You never like to face teams like that, because you know the odds
are building up that they’ll have to whip someone soon.”
Burkart's CSK Funny Car Photo Courtey of delworsham.com
Burkart jumped out to a very slight edge at the start as both drivers
nailed the tree with very respectable numbers, and was ahead at 60-feet. Race
tracks are 1,320 feet long, however, and this race was over just past that first
timer at the 60-foot mark. Burkart’s car first started to rattle the tires, next
they shook. He pedaled the car quickly but it almost immediately smoked the
tires, while Bazemore’s car tore down the track to a strong 4.833.
“It’s easy to get mad because we smoked the tires, but you have to give them
credit for the 4.83. That was a great run, and they did it without any trouble.
We gave ourselves the trouble, but even if we had gone down there it would have
been tight,” said Burkart. “A 4.83 was a great run, and it was what we were
aiming for, so it would’ve been a very tight race down there. Would’ve been,
could’ve been, should’ve been, whatever. It wasn’t, and we got to taste a first
round loss for the first time this year. It didn’t taste very good.
Burkart and the CSK team get another shot in three weeks, when the NHRA tour
heads to the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee.
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In 2004, Phil Burkart went to Las Vegas just beginning his tenure as the
full-time driver of the blue Checker, Schuck’s, Kragen Funny Car. He entered the
Vegas event outside the POWERade top ten with a 2-3 record. When he left the
track on Sunday night, his record was 6-3, he was in 5th place in POWERade
points, and he had a trophy under his arm.
Phil Burkart
This week, Burkart will again bring his blue Checker, Schuck’s Kragen
Monte Carlo to “The Strip” at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but when he begins
qualifying on Friday, it will be from a much different perspective. In 2004 and
2005, Burkart and his team were struggling when they arrived in Las Vegas. The
big win in 2004 turned things around and sent Burkart on his way to the only top
ten finish of his career, but last year a first round loss and a devastating
engine explosion dropped Burkart out of the top ten.
In 2006, things are very different. Burkart has the same crew, the same car, and
much of the same equipment. He sits 4th in the POWERade points, and has
consistently managed to win at least one round at every race to this point.
“It’s hard to put your finger on what we’ve done, but things are different
around here,” Burkart said. “We’ve maximized our good stuff, minimized our
mistakes and made the most of what we’ve done. To this point, no one on this
team thinks we’ve even hit our stride yet, but we’re hanging around near the top
of the points and we’re beating some very good teams. We can still improve, and
we plan to get a little bit better this weekend.”
Phil Burkart and his blue Checker, Schuck’s Kragen Funny Car team use K&N oil
filters (HP-5001). The K&N filter is absolutely optimal for the demands that our
race cars face, said Worsham Team Manager Bob Wilber.
So far this season, Burkart has recorded a win over defending POWERade champ
Gary Scelzi, along with victories over past champions John Force and Cruz
Pedregon. All he’s missing is a win over Tony Pedregon to have beaten every
Funny Car champion since 1990, and this season is only four races old. If he
lines up next to Tony Pedregon on Sunday April 9th in Las Vegas, you can place
your bets on Burkart having no thought about his opponent or the other champs he
has defeated, according to Wilber. Instead, Burkart will only be focusing on his
job, and the race track.
K&N Filter on Team Worsham car
“We manage to beat some very tough opponents around here, not just his year but
the last couple of years too,” Burkart said. “To do that, you can’t be thinking
its John Force over there, or Gary Scelzi, or whoever it is. You have to think
of what the track will give you, and I have to think of what I can do to help
the team as the driver.”
Burkart plans on doing the best possible job he can inside the car. “It’s more
than just good reaction times, it’s also being ahead of the car, in control of
things, and cool under pressure,” he said.
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The City of Shanghai lies on the western coast of the Pacific Ocean and at the
central section of the north-south coastline of China. The city is exotic and
diverse and known for many things, and for the first time, the A1 Grand Prix
celebrated the first season of the World Cup of Motorsport.
A1 Team Czech at World Cup of Motorsport
It is a racing Olympics of sorts, where 25 nations representing 80 percent
of the world compete, driver against driver and country against country with
high speed action at every turn. Unlike the Olympics, the competitors are
professionals and the prize is money, a lot of money.
The A1 Grand Prix distribution for the top ten finishers in the Feature Race at
each A1 Grand Prix of Nations is $1,000,000. With an offer at each of the 11 rounds,
the grand total is $11,000,000. It is divided from first place to tenth as
follows: $300,000, $200,000, $150,000, $110,000, $80,000, $60,000, $40,000,
$20,000 and $10,000.
A1 Team France took home first place and top dollar with $1,920,000 and A1 Team
USA placed 17th with $190,000. Czech A1GP team driver Tomas Enge took home
$510,000 and placed 8th among the drivers. Enge uses products from K&N
Engineering on his vehicles.
The Czech A1GP team celebrated after the last checkered flag of the inaugural
A1GP season when Enge crossed the line first in the feature race. The Czechs
endured their share of bad luck during the course of the season, but were
rewarded with a win at the end.
The team worked hard over the first weekend of April and focused on the race
setup in the practices. It paid off on race day when Enge climbed from eighth to
sixth in the spring race. The best was yet to come for the Czechs. In the
feature race, Enge had a great start and immediately moved to fourth. There was
a collision between Ireland and Indonesia and the whole field went to the pits
for an early Safety Car Period.
K&N Air Filters Aid A1 Grand Prix Team Czech to a Win in Shanghai, China
Immediately after restart Enge left the pits second and put the leading
Malaysian car under a lot of pressure. After a brave move on the outside of the
first corner Enge moved to the front and never looked back. The Czech team moved
to 12th place in overall standings.
“I am really happy for the whole team and all our fans,” said Enge. “Basically
everything went according to the plan. I wanted to improve our position in the
sprint but without taking too much risk. I gained two positions on the grid for
the feature race and did a great start.”
The start was key Enge said, along with the superb work of his mechanics in the
pits. “It really paid off that we spent all practices working on the race setup
because my car was perfect in the feature race,” said Enge. “I’m really glad to
have all the high end parts like K&N air filter in my car which makes car set up
with its performance work perfectly at this race.”
The A1 Grand Prix is three days of on-track action and allows fans to interact
with teams and drivers. The World Cup of Motorsport brings the excitement of
international motorsport to fans across the globe.
The A1GP celebrated the end of its first season at the tallest hotel in the
world on April 2nd at the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai’s business district. Teams,
drivers and Chinese dignitaries gathered to watch the season long achievements.
A1 Team France was the first team to be awarded the World Cup of Motorsport.
Alexandre Premat and Nicolas Lapierre, whose 13 wins up to the American race in
Laguna Seca, were also presented with commemorative rings made from white gold
and diamonds.
Sheikh Maktoum, A1 Grand Prix Chairman said the gathering was a celebration of
all we have achieved in the first season. “The teams, drivers and all involved
in A1GP, put on a magnificent show,” he said.
On October 1st Zandvoort, Netherlands will host the first race of the 2006-07
season.
Follow the Grand Prix of Nation's progress throughout the racing season at the
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