Leichty does it again! Wins Redline Time Attack!

Aaron headed to the track again with his "almost stock" Honda S2000. Aaron is our first tester for Honda S2000 shocks running an off the shelf AST 4100 set. Aaron beat his nearest competitor by 2.4 seconds. Congrats Aaron!

Results here.

Turn In Concepts Wins Redline Time Attack on AST Dampers!

Turn In Concepts, a Subaru shop selling AST shocks, won the Street AWD class this weekend at Redline's visit to Autobahn Country Club. TiC's customer car had a blown shock from another shock company and replaced the set with a test set of AST 4100s which were over two years old. Needless to say, the ASTs aren't coming back off the car after this win! TiC will be competing in several Redline Events this year. We hope to meet up with them at Nashville.

For the full details go here.

Ian Stewart breaks Sebring Track Record on ASTs!

Don't tell Ian Stewart that it is hot outside, he doesn't care. Stewart set out to break the track record in NASA's TTC class running a 2:33.2 in 105 degree heat this past weekend. The previous record was 2:35.7. Ian wasn't happy with the record so the next morning he went out and ran a 2:32.1 beating the record by 3.6 seconds! Great job Ian!

If there was a track that required good dampers it is Sebring. Known as one of the bumpiest tracks in the U.S., Sebring has long been a torture test for race cars. Ian makes it look easy with this lap. Ride along with him here.

Ian is running the AST 5100 kit for the MINI Cooper. 5100s are single adjustable (rebound only) shocks. When we first started working with Ian, he wanted a high performance shock without the sky high prices of double and triple adjustable shocks. The 5100 was a perfect trade off in performance and value using competition level components in a single adjustable (non remote) shock. He's quoted as saying they work better than "any $7,000 shock I've driven on at less than half the price." Thanks again to Ian for showing off what a great driver on great shocks can do.

Aaron Leichty beats TTC track record by 3 seconds on AST 4100s!

Aaron Leichty, one of our first Honda S2000 testers, beat the Putnum Park track record this weekend by THREE seconds. His time was good enough to beat the TTB track record as well and come within 0.5s of the TTA track record! Congrats to Aaron on his FIRST weekend in the car. Ride with Aaron on a lap around Putnum Park as he keeps up with Corvettes and Saleen S7s, eating them up in the turns. Click on the picture to see his fast lap.

AST's in action during Camaro Mustang Challenge Race

Test driver, Jeff Wirtz, pulls off another winning weekend at Texas World Speedway in College Station, TX. Here's some video of the inverted start and Jeff passing the entire field during the 20 minute race. Jeff won the previous race which means the next one has an inverted start where 1st place is last, etc.



Way to go, Jeff!

AST Driver sweeps NASA CMC Event

In his debut event on AST 4100s, Jeff Wirtz of Round Rock, TX pulled off a sweep at the NASA event at Motorsport Ranch.  Jeff was always a top finisher last year, but with ASTs on the car Jeff put multiple seconds on the field in 4 of 4 races.  This included inverted starts where he passed the whole field in the opening laps!  The only car faster than Wirtz’s 3rd Gen Camaro was a fully prepped Mustang AIX classed car (a much faster class). 

Camaro Mustang Challenge is a popular class in NASA that is growing especially in the Texas Region.  Wirtz was able to drive a competitor’s car in practice, a car having twin tube shocks.  “I felt bumps on the track with the twin tubes that I didn’t even know were there with the ASTs,” said Wirtz.  AST’s monotube technology can provide forces greater than many lower end shocks without the harshness most drivers experience.

Congrats to Jeff in his first event with the shocks.  Stay tuned for the April event at TWS in College Station!

RRT Suspension wins on AST 4200s

RRT Suspension recently made their debut event with their "do it all" BMW E36 running AST 4200s with Vorshlag camber plates. The 325i was built specifically to compete in NASA GTS 2, SCCA ITR, and BMW Club Racing Prepared class. The "do it all" car came out fighting last weekend at VIR. Due to an issue with qualifying run groups, RRT's Barry Battle was forced to start in the back. Their forum has a video of the 10 lap race where Barry passes the entire field in the first 3 laps and then puts 40 seconds on 2nd place by the checkered flag. The car looks hooked up once he gets through the crowd. We think that must be a combination of driver and suspension since the car has the originally 200k mile motor in it! Great run Barry!


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