When points matter most, AST delivers. As does Ian Stewart! Ian built his National Champion Mini Cooper with the best of the best. Ian needed the best suspension money could buy BUT he needed it to fulfill the rules of NASA’s Time Trial classes which have point values on adjustments and dollar amounts. Accrue too many points and you’re in the next fastest class. Naturally we suggested AST 5100s which use the same competition parts as our 5200 two way remotes and 5300 triple adjustable shocks at a lower price point. Ian proved that good driving and single adjustable shocks can (and do) win at the national level. You don’t have to “break the bank” to win. Thanks again Ian!

RobiSpec was in full force at the Redline Time Attack event Round 7. Robert “Robi” Fuller piloted his new ’08 STI complete with AST 5200 Suspension. Robi, known for his suspension tuning with another shock company, took the STI out on its maiden voyage with AST dampers and took home the win in class and Overall Stock class as well. Robi said, “The shocks were great right out of the box. The car had so much grip, I didn’t have to adjust them all day.” We can’t wait until he dials the car in for the Finale at California Speedway.

Thanks to the RobiSpec team for brining home the win. Good luck at Fontana!

In order to better share our testing, we will be publishing our track notes on the website for dealers and customers to see. This will provide a way to distribute our results as we test new products and setups on our coilover kits.

Check out our first addition here!

AST Suspension – USA is proud to announce new updates to the 4000 Series line of dampers. These updates were developed directly from customer and dealer feedback on the product and enhance the performance of the 4000 Series damper on the track and street. Some updates only relate to the 4000 Series struts while other improvements will be added to struts and shocks. produced. Customers with older 4000 Series dampers are welcome to contact an AST dealer for a quote on upgrading any current generation. Click here for more information!

AST Suspension USA would like to thank our customers that won or trophied this year at SCCA Solo2 Nationals. Many of our drivers were building their cars a few months before the event and still won! Wait till next year when they sort their cars and are ready for the Lincoln Airpark surface. Several of our trophy winners missed first place by hundredths of a second! Here is a listing of our winners and trophy positions.

2009 National Champions
Mike Simanyi – Street Mod National Champion (running AST 5200s)
Katy Nicholls – Street Mod Ladies National Champion (running AST 5200s)
Karen Kraus – E Street Prepared Ladies National Champion (running AST 5200s)

2009 Trophy Winners
Matt Lucas – Street Touring Xtreme (running AST 4200s)
Craig Wilcox – B Street Prepared (lost by 0.070s, running AST 5200s)
Jon Pomrenke – Street Touring Xtreme (running AST 4200s)
Amy Fair – Street Touring Ultra Ladies (lost by 0.069s running (running AST 5200s)
Cristy Carlson – Street Touring Ultra Ladies (running AST 4100s)
Joe Silva – B Street Prepared (running AST 5200s)
Thomas Bleh – D Street Prepared (running AST 4100s)
Kent Kroll – E Street Prepared (running AST 4200s)

Thanks again to all our customers who trusted AST Suspension to provide them with some of the best shocks on the market. We can’t wait to see what happens next year when they have more testing under their belts! As you can see, whether you run our 4100, 4200, or 5200s, you can win on AST Suspension.

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.

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!

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 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!

http://www.rrtracing.com/forum/viewt…345&p=738#p738