Summit SuperSeries World Championship to crown Top, Mod, Junior champions
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (October 3, 2012)
– It is simply the greatest prize in all of sportsman drag racing and
it will all on the line at Memphis International Raceway on Saturday,
October 13.
The
Summit Racing Equipment SuperSeries presented by AMSOIL and Moser
Engineering has long been revered as one of the greatest sportsman
programs in all of drag racing and for the 11th year in a row three more
names will be etched into the IHRA history books as winners of one of
the most prestigious programs around.
The Top ET Summit SuperSeries winner in Memphis will receive a brand new
American Race Cars dragster with a Trick Flow engine plus other prizes
"I
think the Summit SuperSeries is the best thing going in sportsman
racing," said two-time IHRA Top Sportsman World Champion Marco Abruzzi,
owner of Abruzzi Transmissions and Converters. "It gives the entry level
local racer a chance to win big."
Designed
to give grassroots racers a chance to compete on the biggest stage in
motorsports, the Summit SuperSeries features a 16-car tournament in
three separate classes at the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals
with the winner of each being crowned IHRA World Champion and taking
home the lucrative SuperSeries prize package made possible by dozens of
generous sponsors. This year's world champions will be crowned in Top
ET, Mod ET and, for the first time in IHRA history, a Junior Dragster
World Champion will be crowned for the first time in the sport.
Since
its inception in 2002 the Summit SuperSeries has crowned 19 champions,
some of which have gone on to have success in other programs as well,
and has grown into the fastest growing sportsman program in the United
States with thousands of racers from nearly all of the IHRA's 100 member
tracks participating.
Drivers
race all year at their local track, accumulating track points with the
hopes of advancing to the next stage of the competition. At the end of
the track racing season the top registered Summit SuperSeries points
earners move on to the Summit Team Finals to race against other track
champions at the regional level. At the Summit Team Finals competitions
the winners in Top ET, Mod ET and Junior Dragster then move on to the
IHRA World Finals in Memphis to fill the three 16-car fields to runoff
for the Summit SuperSeries World Championship.
In
addition to being crowned the IHRA's very first Junior Dragster World
Champion, the Junior Dragster Summit SuperSeries winner will receive a
brand new Vic Puglia dragster
This
year, in addition to being crowned world champion, each winner will
take home a lucrative prize package made possible by the IHRA's generous
sponsors that includes everything from cash, a brand new dragster, an
enclosed trailer, a trip to Aruba and more.
Beginning
in Top ET, the 2012 Top winner will receive $10,000 courtesy of Summit
Racing Equipment and a brand new turn-key dragster made possible by the
gifted builders at American Race Cars. The brand new dragster features a
custom Trick Flow engine plus various parts and pieces from some of the
most competitive companies in drag racing including Summit Racing
Equipment, Moser Engineering, Abruzzi Transmissions and Converters and
many more. The Top winner will also receive a trip to Aruba, IHRA Gold
Card, World Champion Ironman and more.
The
other big-car winner running in Mod ET will receive $10,000 courtesy of
Summit Racing Equipment, a brand new 26' Pace Journey enclosed trailer
and a custom golf cart. The winner also receives an Aruba vacation, IHRA
Gold Card, World Champion Ironman and more.
In
addition to crowning its very first IHRA World Champion, the brand new
Junior Dragster program will also award its winner with $3,000 courtesy
of Summit Racing Equipment, a brand new Junior Dragster built by Vic
Puglia with an engine courtesy of Steve Waller, an IHRA Gold Card, World
Champion Ironman and more.
This
year's Summit SuperSeries World Championship features drivers from
multiple states as far away as Alaska who will be making the trip to
Tennessee. That is a nearly 5,000 mile journey just to take part in this
incredible program.
For more information on the Summit SuperSeries visit www.ihra.com and click on the Summit SuperSeries button to learn more.
