Caprock Motorplex, U.S. 131 Motorsports Park take team titles
NORWALK, Ohio (September 18, 2012) – Roughly 2,000 miles apart are two very different tracks in two very different places.
One
is U.S. 131 Motorsports Park located in the cool hills of southern
Michigan, while the other is Caprock Motorplex sitting in the arid
deserts of west Texas. But despite those differences, those tracks had
two things very much in common over the weekend – very happy drivers.
That is because both tracks were the location of two of the
International Hot Rod Association's most exciting events as U.S. 131
Motorsports Park hosted the Division 5 Thunder Summit Team Finals and
Caprock Motorplex hosted the inaugural Division 7 Gunslingers Summit
Team Finals both this past weekend.
Division 5 Mod ET Winner Mark Gubinski
From
those two events six drivers emerged as representatives of their
respective division at the upcoming Summit SuperSeries presented by
AMSOIL and Moser Engineering World Championship to be held at Memphis
International Raceway in October and two tracks took home team honors
from the events. At the inaugural Division 7 Summit Team Finals host
track Caprock Motorplex won the team event with 46 points, finishing 20
points ahead of runner-ups Desert Thunder Raceway and Amarillo Dragway.
In Division 5 U.S. 131 Motorsports Park led the way on its home turf
with 73 points, followed by Grand Bend Motorplex with 38 points and
Marion County International Raceway with 29 points.
Individually
those drivers that took home the biggest wins of the weekend were
Division 7 Top winner Tammy Chamberlain from Caprock Motorplex, Mod
winner Tim O'Moore from Southwestern International Raceway and Junior
Dragster winner Lizzie Low from Caprock Motorplex. The Division 5
representatives earning their way to the Summit World Finals in Memphis
are Top winner Rick Baad from U.S. 131 Motorsports Park, Mod winner Mark
Gubinski from Grand Bend Motorplex and Junior Dragster winner Ryan
Paquette from Grand Bend Motorplex.
Division 7 Winners Tim O'Moore (Mod), Tammy Chamberlain (Top) and Lindsey Low (Junior)
In
the Gunslingers Division Tammy Chamberlain took the Top ET victory over
Kevin Bracey from Amarillo Dragway with a solid 6.413, 112.78 on a 6.40
dial while Bracey broke-out. In Mod Tim O'Moore held the advantage on
the tree with a .033 reaction time and ran a dead-on 7.079 on a 7.07
dial at 89.46 mph to get around Gary Bartholma of Amarillo Dragway who
took too much at the stripe. Junior Dragster representative Lindsey Low
also won a close race in a double-breakout victory over Rowdy Huff of
Desert Thunder Raceway.
The
Thunder Division also saw some great racing headlined by a very close
race in Mod ET as Mark Gubinski and Dan Farrell of Wisconsin
International Raceway went head-to-head with Gubinski coming out on top.
Both drivers were slow on the tree, but ran solid numbers with Gubinski
running a 10.642, 120.55 on a 10.62 dial while Farrell posted a 12.484,
108.31 on a 12.43. In Top ET Rick Baad made quick work of Dion Degnetz
of Wisconsin International Raceway who went red by .008 and in Junior
Dragster Ryan Paquette had a solid .016 reaction time and ran a 7.931,
80.22 on a 7.90 dial to get around Schuyler Turner of Marion County
International Raceway.
Those
six drivers will join many more at the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment
World Finals in Memphis to compete for over $200,000 in cash and prizes
as part of the Summit SuperSeries World Championship program for the
Top, Mod and Junior Dragster classes.
For complete team and individual results from this weekend's action in Michigan and Texas visit www.ihra.com.
Division 5 Top ET Winner Rick Baad
