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StopTech’s Trophy Big Brake Kits go the extra distance for serious performance
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Another refinement this year will be the vehicle’s use of StopTech’s just introduced Trophy Big Brake Kits. Trophy BBKs were designed for use on the track only, featuring ultra-lightweight calipers and a full-floating version of the company’s patented AeroHat coupled with patented AeroRotors.

“Porsche’s stock brakes are exceptionally good for original equipment, but StopTech’s Trophy Big Brake Kits go the extra distance for serious performance on the track,” commented Crescentini. “Porsche is my personal vehicle of choice on the track or off, so it was important to me that StopTech offered significant performance enhancement on those cars.”

As a Porsche driver, Crescentini prefers the SPEED GT street courses such as the Grand Prix of Long Beach in California and the Thunderbolt Raceway in New Jersey. “The Porsche GT3 is a great cut-and-thrust vehicle, so put me on a track with good brakes and lots of tight turns and I can leverage every advantage over cars that dominate on long straight-aways,” says Crescentini. “Plus I am not spooked by the concrete barriers typical of street courses, which can be unnerving to some drivers.” It is this attitude that has earned Crescentini the nickname “Street Fighter” amongst some colleagues.




Dino Crescentini was born in Los Angeles and began racing various motocross and desert events in 1972. He has expanded his racing resume for over 30 years, having participated in Alfa Club Races/Time Trials, Trans-Am series, Can-Am vintage car races, and many more classes of events before joining this current SPEED series. Along the way he has won several Rising Star of the Race awards and was named 2004 SPEED Touring Car Rookie of the Year. On the business side, he co-founded StopTech in 1999 in Southern California and departed a year later to start Centric Parts, which later added Power Slot and StopTech and performance and ultra-performance divisions.

Crescentini’s SPEED GT racing schedule with GMG Racing includes the Sebring International Raceway in Florida (March 18 – 20), The Grand Prix of Long Beach in California (April 17 – 19),
Thunderbolt Raceway in New Jersey (May 1 – 3), Mosport International Raceway in Canada (May 15 – 17), Watkins Glen International in New York (July 3 – 5), Autobahn Country Club (July 24 – 26) in Illinois, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Ohio (August 7 -9), Road America in Wisconsin (August 14-16), Road Atlanta in Georgia (September 23 – 25) and Laguna Seca Raceway in California (October 9-11). The races will be broadcast on SPEED Channel and Crescentini’s season can be followed at www.thebrakeroom.com.

StopTech is Centric Parts’ ultra performance division and a leading innovator of world-class brake components and systems for production-based racing cars and high performance vehicles on the street and track. StopTech was the first to offer balanced brake upgrades for production cars and remains the worldwide leader with more than 700 platform offerings to dramatically improve overall braking performance. StopTech’s industry leading technologies and materials, from rock-solid calipers to ingeniously efficient heat-handling rotors, result in shorter stopping distances, better brake modulation, and less brake fade.

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