Pittsburgh, Carolina, Greer take Summit Team Finals team wins
NORWALK, Ohio (September 26, 2012)
– It was a busy weekend across the county this past weekend as nine
more drivers punched their tickets to the Summit SuperSeries World
Championship at Memphis International Raceway in October and three more
tracks claimed Summit Team Finals gold.
In
the Carolinas six drivers advanced to the Summit Racing Equipment World
Finals in Memphis next month as Carolina Dragway hosted the Division 2
East Summit Team Finals and Piedmont Dragway hosted the Division 9
Summit Team Finals, while a few hours north Pittsburgh Raceway Park
hosted the Division 3 Summit Team Finals that same weekend.
Junior racer Toni Salsgiver was one of nine drivers to earn their way to the Summit World Finals
In
team competition host tracks Pittsburgh Raceway Park and Carolina
Dragway both easily swept their Summit Team Finals presented by AMSOIL
and Moser Engineering competitions, with Pittsburgh taking a six point
win over Beaver Springs Dragway and Carolina Dragway running away from
Immokalee Regional Raceway to take the win. In Division 9 Greer Dragway
is the only track to break through and record a team victory at an
opposing track, taking the Raiders championship by four points over
Fayetteville Motorsports Park.
Individually
those drivers that took home the biggest prize of the weekend by
advancing to the Summit Racing Equipment SuperSeries presented by AMSOIL
and Moser Engineering runoff are, from Division 2 East, Top competitors
Tim Butler and Sammy Hollingsworth, Mod competitors Chris Adams and
Aaron Brock and Junior Dragster competitors Toni Salsgiver and Jennifer
Craft. From Division 3 it was Top competitors Rich Zemrose and Sheldon
Gerlach, Mod competitors Randy Biddle Jr. and John Janu and Junior
Dragster competitors Randi Teed and Lewie Wrotman. And from Division 9
it was Top competitors Chad Brewer and Chris Dean, Mod competitors Jay
Norris and Scott Yates and Junior Dragster competitors Connor Caulder
and Robert Vogler.
Both
the winner and runner-up at each Summit Team Finals over the weekend
advanced, making up the 16-car field in each of the three classes.
Rich Zemrose bested Sheldon Gerlach at the D3 Summit Team Finals in Pittsburgh Raceway Park
In
the Heat Wave Division Tim Butler, representing Bradenton Motorsports
Park, defeated Sammy Hollingsworth from Union County Dragway that saw
two solid lights – a .003 to a .006 in favor of Butler – and a close
race as Butler ran a 4.968, 138.46 on a 4.95 dial to Hollingsworth's
4.967 on a 4.95. Chris Adams, from Immokalee Regional Raceway, and Aaron
Brock, from Pageland Dragway, put on an equally impressive show as the
two competitors brokeout by a narrow margin with Adams taking the win,
hitting a .004 light with a 7.467, 87.92 on a 7.47 while Brock was over
by two hundredths. In Junior Dragster competition Carolina Dragway's
Toni Salsgiver ran a solid 7.953, 70.43 on a 7.90 dial while Jennifer
Craft from Central Florida broke out by two tenths.
Carolina
Dragway won the team portion of the weekend with 61 points, finishing
18 points ahead of Immokalee Regional Raceway. Bradenton Motorsports
Park was third, followed by Orangeburg Dragstrip, Union County Dragway
and Pageland Dragway.
In
the North Stars Division it was Pittsburgh Raceway Park's Rich Zemrose
taking the Top ET title over Sheldon Gerlach from West Virginia's
Kanawha Valle Motorsports Park, running a 5.050, 136.07 on a 5.06 dial
while Gerlach went red by .015. In the Mod ET final Randy Biddle Jr.
from Quaker City Motorsports Park also benefitted from a bad tree by his
opponent as he landed a .013 bulb to John Janu's .068 and ran a 6.991,
93.69 on a 6.97 dial to Janu's 6.845 on a 6.84. In Junior Dragster Randi
Teed from Skyview Drags edged Lewie Wrotman from Pittsburgh Raceway
Park with a 7.997, 80.00 on a 7.98 dial to Wrotman's 7.947 on a 7.93.
Tim Butler won Top at Carolina Dragway and will advance to the Summit World Finals in Memphis
In
team competition Pittsburgh Raceway Park finished six points ahead of
Beaver Springs Dragway with 61 points, while Quaker City Motorsports
Park finished third followed by Dragway 42 and Skyview Drags.
Finally
from Division 9 Chad Brewer from Fayetteville Motorsports Park led the
Top ET category with a win over Chris Dean from Piedmont Dragway,
nailing a .011 light and running a 4.729, 145.86 on a 7.71 dial to
Dean's 6.197, 6.18. In Mod ET Jay Norris represented Greer Dragway with a
win over Mooresville's Scott Yates as Yates struggled on the tree
allowing Norris an easy with a 7.347, 92.18 on a 7.33 dial to Yates'
6.925 on a 6.91. The Division 9 Junior Dragster representatives are
Connor Caulder from Fayetteville and Robert Vogler from Piedmont as
Caulder ran a dead-on 6.934, 73.73 on a 8.93 dial, proving just enough
to beat Voger who was a perfect .000 on the tree, but was a tad too
quick on the top end.
Greer
Dragway led the team competition with a narrow four point win over
Fayetteville Motorsports Park, while Dunn Benson Dragstrip, Farmington
Dragway and Elk Creek Dragway rounded out the top five.
