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K&N-backed driver Jimmy DeFrank won the 2016 NHRA Super Stock championship

“They’re all different. I can’t say it was more exciting or better or anything. They’re all different,” DeFrank said. “That kind of sticks in my mind more than others. I was very focused on the championship and we changed our game plan a little bit. We usually run two cars, in the Stock category and the Super Stock category. We started this season with a high focus, a 100 percent focus, just on the one category and the one car in Super Stock and it paid off by winning the championship.”

DeFrank started the season by winning the NHRA national event at the Winternationals in Pomona. He won two more events, had two runner-up finishes, and won by a comfortable margin.

“Our theory on focusing on one car worked out well,” DeFrank said. “It’s the one we favor and the one I race the most.”

DeFrank started his NHRA drag racing career in 1995. In 2015, running two cars, he was in contention for championships in the Stock and Super Stock categories. He didn’t win either.

“It just kind of frustrated me and everything,” DeFrank said. “We were close but we just weren’t closing the deal on them. It felt like we weren’t giving 100 percent to each car, because when you’re racing two, it felt like it took us down to 90 or 95 percent effort in each car. We were just rushed and you can’t look at things as close.”

Jimmy DeFrank won three NHRA Super Stock events in 2016

“We took a step back for this year and focused on the one car, our primary car and category, and it paid off and proved our gut feeling,” DeFrank said.

After winning the NHRA national event in Pomona to start the season, DeFrank won an NHRA Divisional event in Fontana. But it wasn’t until he won the Super Stock event in Woodburn, Oregon, a Lucas Oil Division 6 race in September, did he feel confident about winning the championship.

“That’s the one that really gave us the end of the year huge boost in points to put us far in the lead,” DeFrank said. “It was great. It was so much different than past ones. We had some championships that have come down to the very last race of the season where we had to win the race. That was my very first one. This one, it just kind of fell into place, probably the earliest out of any championship. The pressure was off earlier than usual.”

Rain and bad weather affected the races in Oregon. Rain washed out the final day. DeFrank and his team had to wait until Monday before winning the event. He said he and his team, his dad Jim and his crew chief, missed a day of work, but it was worth it.

“It was actually a delayed race,” DeFrank said. “It rained on Sunday. We only got maybe one or two rounds in. We were really focused on making good runs, watching the details, all three of us worked very closely. Of course with one car we can really do a lot. We made really good runs and it came together.”

K&N-backed driver Jimmy DeFrank won the NHRA Super Stock season opener in Pomona

“There’s no difference in preparation,” DeFrank said. “Our team is so big on preparation, literally the day after the world finals ended, the last race of the season, we came home and started preparing for this season. We started preparing the car and also the trailer. It’s just the way we are. Even the small things are important to us, even the inventory of the trailer and the maintenance of the trailer. We did start that early, the day after the race.”

Using K&N air and oil filters in his cars are a big part of how his team prepares for each race and the season. DeFrank said the K&N filters are integral to his team’s success.

“K&N is huge for multiple reasons,” De Frank said. “K&N does a ton for our sport. For our particular car, reliability and preparation are so important. But using the K&N products, which are the best products, they are reliable.”

Cory Kruseman and his crew after winning the VRA Midget Championship

Kruseman has been racing the Chili Bowl since 1999 when he came in second. He won the Chili Bowl Championship in 2000 and 2004. He was the preliminary night Chili Bowl winner in 2005, 2006, 2010, and 2012.

The River Spirit Expo Center at Expo Square in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the site for the event, which was held on Tuesday, January 10 through Saturday, January 14, 2017. A record 372 drivers from 36 states and five countries including the United States, Australia, England, Canada, and New Zealand competed.

The Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, which NASCAR has called the “biggest Midget race of the year” and is nicknamed the “Super Bowl” of midget racing, was started in 1987.

Each night of the five-day event has qualifying races presenting winners with the ultimate chance to qualify for the A-main event. Each qualifying night has heat races, dash-type races and a 25-lap feature race. Drivers who finish poorly in their heat start deep in final night qualifying events and have to finish high in many events to make the A-main event. A driver who started in the lowest “J” event would have to finish high in heats I, H, G, F, E, D, C, and B to reach the A-main event. The top four finishers in the qualifying night’s feature event and the top four finishers of the two Saturday night B-main event go on to compete in the feature A-main event to determine the winner.

Kruseman started in the C main and was successful in his transfer to the B heat when his car suffered the broken U-Joint.

Racing History

The midget car Cory Kruseman races at the Chili Bowl

He started racing go karts and steadily graduated to USAC three-quarter midgets, midgets, and sprint cars. Besides winning the Chili Bowl twice, he has won the Non-Winged World Championship, the Western States Dirt Track Championship, ESPN Points Series, the TQ Midget Fall Nationals Championship, the USAC Indiana Sprint Week Championship twice, the 2001 SCRA Championship, 2006 USAC/CRA Championship, 2011 VRA Midget Championship, 2011 USAC Western Midget Championship. He finished second in the Australian Grand Prix in 2001, won three Australian Championships in 2003, and won six of nine events at “Le Midget Grand Prix” in Paris, France in 1994.

When asked how many wins he’s had in his career, Kruseman laughed and noted that he hasn’t kept track. “But one guy told me I had 167 wins in just sprint and midgets,” he said.

He identified his major victories as his two Chili Bowl wins, a world championship win, winning the USAC Championship three times and winning the Oval Nationals, the biggest sprint race of the year.

For 13 years in a row Kruseman has raced in New Zealand and Australia in the winter and all over the United States in the summer.

Currently, he competes in about 15 races a year.

Race Car Driving School

He started the Cory Kruseman Sprint Car Driving School in Ventura, California, in 1999.

Corey Kruseman racing the Mark Priestly #7 Sprint Car

People learn about the school through word of mouth.

“If you are in the business, you know who we are,” he said. “USA Today just listed us as one of the top 10 schools in the United States.”

There is no classroom work involved in the course. Instead, it is all hands on. The students drive sprint cars, which have one seat, and there is no communication between them and the instructors.

“They’re on their own,” Kruseman said.

The class includes an Arrive and Race Series.

“People lease cars from us. They go through the school and learn how to drive, then we take them to a nearby race track where they race,” he said.

“Those who participate in the program are responsible for the car they lease. They have to pay for any car they tear up. We offer insurance for the school, but not for racing,” Kruseman said.

“We don’t put anyone out in a race who we don’t think is safe and in control. Still, so far as racing experience, some have very little,” he said.

The school uses sprint and midget sprint cars. The sprint cars have a wheelbase of 86-inches and are 76-inches wide and include a 700-horsepower engine that is naturally aspirated. Their top speed was clocked at 98 mph at the Ventura Raceway. The midget sprint cars have a Ford Focus 2.0-liter engine that produces 190 horsepower, has a 72-inch wheelbase and is 65-inches wide. Their top speed has been clocked at 84 mph at the Ventura Raceway.

Kruseman uses K&N air, oil, and fuel filters in his personal racecar, the school’s cars, his daily driver, and his motorhome.

“We use them because hands down they’re the best product out there,” said Kruseman. “They are an advantage. Even if they cost more money, I would still be running them.”

His sponsors/partners include:

• Lucas Oil Products

• MAV TV

• Schoenfeld Headers

• Auto Meter

• Sander Engineering

• Barnes Dry Sump Oil Systems

• Automotive Racing Products

• KSE Racing Products

• K&N Engineering

• Fuel Safe Racing Cells

• Impact

• Ventura Raceway

• Circle Track Performance

• Extreme Technologies Mufflers

• Kenny’s Components

• Maxwell Industries

• Elliott Brand Web Design

• Brown & Miller Racing Solutions

• PXP RaceWear

• FK Bearings

• Odyssey Battery

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A fact that the Cadillac folks like to emphasize is that the CT6 is one of the world’s lightest and most agile full-size luxury performance sedans, with dimensions near those of BMW’s short-wheelbase 7 Series, but the approximate weight, agility, and efficiency of the smaller Cadillac CTS.

To make good on that type of claim, Cadillac created the CT6 with one of the industry’s most advanced automotive body structures, an aluminum-intensive architecture that incorporates 11 unique materials to achieve the desired balance of strength, performance, and efficiency.

The structural integrity is put to good use through an advanced performance chassis system designed to deliver an engaging driving experience through the use of a lightweight, aluminum-intensive high-arm multilink short-long arm front suspension. At the rear is a five-link independent suspension that uses multiple outer ball joints and cross braces for optimal handling and steering precision. Added features include Active Rear Steer, Magnetic Ride Control, and selectable drive modes.

There are three engines offered in the CT6: an all-new 400 horsepower Cadillac 3.0L V6 Twin Turbo engine offers 404 horsepower, a 3.6L single turbo V6 that develops 335 horsepower, and a 2.0L single turbo inline four cylinder that produces 265 horsepower.

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Thousands of motorcycle lovers watched as rare bikes were auctioned at the Mecum Auction

Kenny Roberts' flat tracker was a star of the auction

The Mecum auctioneers are louder and more aggressive, the bikes are peddled in rapid-fire fashion, and the motorcycles are as diverse as you could imagine. There were ultra rare, unrestored pieces of historical rolling art auctioned off for north of $100,000, as well as more recent and more common bikes that fetched winning bids well below $1,000.

King Kenny's Yamaha wears a K&N performance filter

1976 Yamaha OW 72 Flat Track Racer

This 750cc racer was ridden by Kenny Roberts. How’s that for a legendary ride? The bike is in original, as-raced condition. The Shell 750cc Yamaha racing engine features flatslide carbs that breathe through K&N pod filters. It’s a legendary racer protected by legendary filters.

A K&N filter helps this 1991 Harley-Davidson® XRTTpump out 120 HP

This one-of-a-kind, hand-built street racer features a 120 horsepower S&S V-twin featuring a 45mm Mikuni carburetor. That carb breathes through a K&N performance filter. That performance is transferred to the ground through a Zipper’s 5-speed transmission. The exhaust is handled with a stainless SuperTrapp system.

1967 Greeves Scottish Trials

This 1967 Greeves Scottish Trials is an original classic and runs a K&N filter

1971 Honda SL350 Racer

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1997 Harley XR750 Dirt Track Racer

Arguably the most famous of the Harley racers, the XR750 is the stuff of flat track legend. This example features a custom C&J frame and side-mount Penske racing shock. The power-built V-twin breathes through two large K&N filters that offer the Harley loads of air and reliable protection.

Big jugs and big K&N filters highlight this Harley XR750 Dirt Track Racer