The store will not work correctly when cookies are disabled.
We use cookies to make your experience better.To comply with the new e-Privacy directive, we need to ask for your consent to set the cookies. Learn more.
FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $100!
K&N’s warehouse will be closed Thursday July 4th and Friday July 5th.
Team Monster Energy Babbitt's Kawasaki has expereinced a stellar season in the AMA Arenacross Championship Series.
Team Monster Energy Babbitt's Kawasaki recently pulled into the Kansas Expocenter at Topeka, with anticipation of continuing a winning streak.
Although the opening night of the race fell on Friday the 13th, the team had no intentions of letting superstitions get in their way of pursuing success in the AMA Arenacross Championship Series.
Team Monster Energy Babbitt's Kawasaki recently earned positions on the podium while racing in the AMA Championship Series at the Kansas Expocenter.
Manning his Kawasaki KX 250F, Chad Johnson made a showing early on, when he earned the victory in the "Dash For Cash". Although experiencing success during his first ride of the event, Johnson then crashed in the main event, finishing the race in seventh place. Returning the following night, he experienced a stellar ride, earning his second trip to the top of the podium during the season.
While Johnson took the victory, his teammate, Tyler Bowers had aspirations of his own. Bowers showed up at Topeka tied for the points lead, but had full intentions of leaving the event as the sole leader. In fact, in spite of clipping the gate with his front tire, the rider grabbed the holeshot on Friday night and never looked back, as he took his seventh win of the season.
Team Monster Energy Babbitt's Kawasaki anticipates continued success in Arenacross racing.
During his heat on Saturday night, Bowers skidded out and went down upon an attempt to make a move to the inside corner, but still managed to finish in the sixth spot. Starting in the second row for the main event, the rider immediately started working his way forward off of the gate, and was situated in fifth place during the first corner. Bowers continued muscling his way toward the front of the pack, and eventually crossed the finish line in second place behind his teammate, Chad Johnson, ending the event with a twelve point lead in the series.
When asked the key to their success during the 2011-2012 season, team manager, Denny Bartz said, "I think the whole program has a lot to do with the success of the team. Eddie Babbitt and I want to win, and we try to provide the riders with the tools they need to win." Referring to Chad Johnson and Tyler Bowers, he continued, "Both riders are capable of coming from the back to the front to be on the box consistently."
As one might suspect, although experiencing a stellar season, Team Babbitt's is no different from any of their competitors in the fact that they have experienced low points as well. In fact, during a previous event, the wind was let out of their sails when Bowers lost twenty two points. On the other hand, the stroke of bad luck was obviously short-lived as the team has dominated the series, winning eleven of the fourteen events in which they have raced this year.
Talent and skill has played a crucial role in the team's success, but they are also aware that to continue their winning streak, maintenance must always remain a priority. That in mind, Team Monster Energy Babbitt's Kawasaki depends upon K&N air and oil filters to keep the internal components of their engines properly protected from the rigors of Arenacross racing.
"Maintenance is a must in our program," explained Bartz. "We have been with K&N since we started in 2006." The team manager continued by explaining that upon using the products, they showed a one horsepower gain on the dyno.
As the season nears its end, Team Babbitt's has full intentions of continuing their winning streak. When asked the key to continued success, Denny Bartz answered, "Podium Finishes." Referring to the AMA Arenacross Championship series, he continued, "It's the best bar to bar racing in AMA.
The 1700 pound Sniper accelerates from 0-60mph in a mere 3.2secs.
For European motorsport fans in need of an action fix, January begins all too bleak and still. Thoughtfully though, the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England cares enough about the motorsport blues to wave the metaphorical green flag, signalling the start of the new race season. The annual Autosport International Racing Car Show held at the NEC in January alerts fans that it won't be much longer before the Formula-One teams begin revealing their new cars. As always, the 2012 event pulsed with superstar drivers and teams, framed by stunning European models, creating enough energy and eye-candy to shatter through even the most severe case of the winter doldrums.
The Saker Sniper display at the K&N booth created a large amount of positive buzz at the 2012 Autosport International Race Car Show.
At this year's event Holland's Saker Sportscars generated some buzz of their own by displaying their all new Sniper at the K&N booth. The Saker Sniper is a steel, space-framed track car with a GRP body shell. The Sniper sports a 2.0L Subaru engine with a TD05 turbo, producing 270 hp, and considering the car weighs less than 1700 pounds, that's an impressive weight-to-power ratio, allowing the Sniper to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 3.2secs. The Sniper in fact holds a lap record at the famed Zandvoort racing circuit in the Netherlands.
Last year K&N's European Motorsports Sponsorship Coordinator, Marcel Blom visited the 2011 Professional Motorsport World Show Expo in Cologne, Germany to meet with Herbert Boender, Managing Director for Saker Sportscars. The two discussed fine-tuning the air filters on Saker cars, being that Boender didn't feel the original filter was maximizing Saker Sportscars full potential.
Regardless of how you view it the K&N themed Sniper looks speedy.
At the time Boender admits that he didn't believe making a change to K&N would create a difference, saying "Normally I don't believe in horsepower for free." That was before their subsequent next meeting in the south Netherlands, in Eindhoven, where they conducted dynamometer tests of various air filters on Saker cars. Tests that proved the K&N air filter clearly produced the best test results. The following week the Saker Sportscars team raced in Belgium sporting the K&N filter and Saker finished third in class.
As a result, the close cooperation that developed between Saker and K&N during the course of 2011 has now grown into a full-on love affair going into 2012. All new Saker Sportscars are now sold with K&N filters as standard equipment, with the Saker Factory race team exclusively running K&N's High Flow air filters.
The Sniper's open top configuration allows for excellent driving awareness while eliminating blind spots.
"Getting more power out of our engines wasn't even the goal," commented Boender. "However, durability of the engine and affordable maintenance and running costs of the car is one of the most important things for Saker. But having even better output of the engine means being able to give less turbo boost, which saves the turbo, lowers temperatures of basically everything, saves fuel and thus makes the car even more reliable, durable and affordable."
The Saker Sniper with its distinguishing K&N paint scheme looked fast standing still, accomplishing what it set out to do at NEC, to draw European motorsports fans to the benefits of maximizing engine protection while minimizing air intake restriction.
For 21 years the Autosport International Racing Car Show has successfully moved forward, helping to advance motorsport technology by displaying opportunities for a more efficient automotive future. After this year's extravaganza Show director, Ian France commented "Autosport International 2012 has been our most exhilarating event yet. Outstanding exhibits have been complemented by fantastic live action and insightful interviews from some of the biggest personalities in the sport. We now turn our attentions to making next year's show even more impressive."
Motorsport fans should reserve January, 17-20, 2013 in their schedules for Autosport International 2013.
The NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Week™ is seen as one of the most exciting events of the year for the drivers and the fans! With the various fan events leading up to the race and Blake Shelton kicking-off the event with a pre-race concert, you won't want to miss out...then let the 100-lap battle for the $1Million paycheck begin!
To enter the sweepstakes, click here. THIS SWEEPSTAKES HAS ENDED.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Sweepstakes ends @ 2:00 pm ET on 4/23/12. Participant must be a resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia and 18 years of age or older to enter. NASCAR, Inc. and Sprint are not sponsors of this promotion. Sweepstakes subject to full Official Rules available at www.knfilters.com. Void where prohibited.
RC drift car takes a ride on K&N Factory conveyor.
We are seemly at odds and bickering about nearly every little thing these days, yet there's one lasting invariable, and it's our love affair with cars. As with all affections it can be a love-hate relationship, what with traffic jams, gas prices and accidents, yet overall it's been an enduring and fascinating ride. We are a nation with more cars than drivers so it should come as no surprise that this love affair has been going on for 126 years, since 1885 when Karl Benz built his first gasoline powered three-wheeler.
Vaughn Gittin Jr. chasing RC drift car through K&N Facility.
We worship all things about our rides, from the new-car smell, to the head-jerking power and roar of acceleration. We'll drive gigantic blinged-out cruisers and amusingly tiny gas-sipping dink-mobiles, but mostly we exist somewhere in the Goldilocks' middle. We adore movies about cars doing absurdly unnatural stunts and we live vicariously through racers, spinning them into heroes. Few venues embrace our admiration for vehicular shenanigans, race idols, and our need for immediate gratification anymore succinctly than viral automotive videos. They are miniature quick-fix action flicks, without the unnecessary back-story bogging it down.
Two weeks ago K&N Filters launched an automotive video of muscle car burnouts and roaring engine sounds combined with a fast miniature radio controlled underdog. The end of the video promotes a sweepstakes on K&N's Facebook page where fans can actually win a Limited Edition Vaughn Gittin Jr. RC Drift Car. So far the viral automotive video has over 450,000 views on YouTube. The video appeals to all our automotive senses by simply being a fun watch, without hitting viewers over the head with some overly contrived message.
Vaughn Gittin Jr. has the co-starring role with the lead going to the limited edition Monster Energy, Falken Tire, 2011 Ford Mustang GT RTR E10 Drift RC car. This cool little radio control model is a 1/10th scale version of JR's 2011 Formula Drift car, which is one of the sport's most identifiable cars, being that Gittin is one of drift racing's most iconic figures.
Gittin is identified by his aggressive, foot to the floor, big smoke driving style and being a fearless competitor. He is still the only American to win a D1 Grand Prix event, not just once, but twice. In 2005 Gittin stunned the drift racing world when he won the D1GP USA versus Japan. Then two years later he brought home the gold once more by winning the D1GP World Championship. In 2010 Gittin earned his first Formula Drift Championship, becoming the second-ever Champion with a strictly-drifting only background.
In the engaging viral video Gittin's gift for driving is on full display as he careens around K&N's crowded storage yard and warehouse buildings attempting to catch the evasive little RC bugger. The cartoonish action sequence is made that much more compelling because of the onboard car footage provided by Contour HD Cameras, which highlights the diminutive RC car going slide-for-slide with Gittin.
The remote camera manufacturer, Gittin's sponsors, the RC Car manufacturer and K&N partners have promoted the video on their websites, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, and by every indication the Limited Edition Vaughn Gittin Jr. RC Drift Car Sweepstakes video has reset the viral automotive video benchmark. It's also been a good way to drum up some Formula Drift 2012 excitement before the season.
Adding further to this video's intriguing nature is your chance of winning one of the Limited Edition Vaughn Gittin Jr. HPI Remote Control Drift Cars. The HPI Racing team only produced 5,000 of these little gems and K&N has already given two of them away to sweepstakes winners. Three more will be given away through the sweepstakes at the rate of one per week up until March 2, 2012. You can find the details regarding how to enter the sweepstakes at www.knfilters.com/rccar/. If nothing else you'll get three-and-half minutes of viral automotive video happiness. The outtakes at the end are worth watching too.
Cook first won the Ice Bowl in 2009, one of his best seasons to date, hopes are that this victory is a forerunner to a repeat performance. Photos by Ron Skinner
Racers are comforted by familiar patterns, any overt sign, or the slightest hint of indication that the fickle lady of luck may once again be smiling their way. In 2009 when the "Tarheel Tiger" Ray Cook won his first 50-lap super late model Ice Bowl, he followed it up with arguably the finest season of his career.
Ray Cook says his team learned a lot of valuable lesson about running on tracks with extreme conditions after his win at the 2012 Talladega Ice Bowl. Photos by Ron Skinner
"Back in 2009 when I won the Ice Bowl for the first time, it helped propel us to maybe the best year in my career," remarked Cook after lighting the fuse on 2012. "Hopefully, this Ice Bowl victory will come close to doing the same thing!"
The annual Ice Bowl race at Talladega short track in Eastaboga, Alabama could have more appropriately been tagged the Sludge Bowl. A determined morning drizzle turned the one-third mile, newly clayed track into muck, making one of the biggest dirt races of the season that much more challenging. Of the 25 cars that started the race, only nine saw the checkered flag.
Committing on the high attrition rate the Brasstown, North Carolina driver said, ""Due to track conditions people just couldn't stand it anymore. A lot of it was just due to parts failure." Then in support of the impressive efforts done by the Talladega track officials to fix the racing surface Cook added, "They've done the best they could."
Despite a shifting, uneven and fast race track, the K&N veteran was able to muscle his new orange paint scheme No. 53 MasterSbilt racecar to a convincing Ice Bowl XXI victory. By lap eight Cook had worked his way to the lead where he remained for the rest of the race.
After collecting his $6,000 payday Cook stated, "We are just so tickled to get a win right off the bat in 2012 and especially at a race with so much prestige like the Ice Bowl. Everything worked real well all weekend and we learned some stuff on our car to get through those rough track conditions. I have to thank my entire team, but especially Keith (Masters) and Gary (Winger) for some valuable help on how to get through those holes."
After their successful run at the Talladega short track aptly nicknamed the "Hornets Nest," the D&R Motorsports team went back to work at the shop, combing through the No. 53 car for any bent or broken parts. Weather permitting, the teams next race will be this weekend, January 27, at the Cabin Fever 40. Cook will be gunning for his second straight win in the race held at the Boyd's Speedway in Ringgold, Georgia. On the line this year is a $3,000 winner's check.
