IHRA Announces Wild Card Entries for 2009 Summit SuperSeries Championship

IHRA officials today announced the “Wild Card” entries for this years Summit SuperSeries run-off for the World Championship at Rockingham Dragway October 24-25, 2009. One person’s name for each class will be chosen at random from all track champions whose tracks do not participate in the Summit Team Finals due to travel distance. That person will fill two of the remaining spots for the World Finals run off. If the highest score person cannot attend, we will go down the list until a competitor is found to travel to Rockingham.

Summit Racing Equipment, the Official Mail Order Company of IHRA, sponsors a revolutionary series for the IHRA ET bracket racer at the local level. Providing the base for the Summit SuperSeries are the more than 80 IHRA member tracks. This program will crown a true World Champion from the ranks of the local grassroots racers at the IHRA member tracks
Each track champion will square off at the Summit Team Finals in their respective division. The champion of the race will earn their way into the eight-car field of finalists that will again race for the Summit World Championship during the IHRA World Finals in Rockingham, North Carolina on October 24-25, 2009. The World Championship race will be held during Sunday’s final professional eliminations, will be filmed by Speed Channel and seen when the IHRA World Finals airs on Speed in the fall.
All qualified entries will receive $1,000.00 tow money from Summit. All entries must tech in at event to receive tow money. The race for the Summit World Championship will be run on a ¼ mile format. The “Elite 8” will be run on a ladder, where the division 1 champion runs division 9 champion, division 2 East champion runs division 2 West champion, division 3 champion runs division 5 champion and division 4 champion runs the lotto winner. If a bike or sled qualifies, they will run against cars. Payout will be; Winner $10,000.00, Runner Up $7,000.00, Semi-finals $2,000.00, Quarter-finals $1,000.00 for Box and No Box classes. Summit will also pay cash prizes to the first two places at each track.

This year there were seven tracks eligible for the Wild Card drawing making this year the largest pool of participants to draw from. A list of competitors and tracks are:

International Racetrack Aruba: Box Class – Roland Arends, No Box Class – Jose Reyes

Alaska Raceway: Box class – Nathan Thornsley. No Box Class – Monte Soper

Castrol Raceway: Box Class – James Pahl, No Box Class – Dan Coss

Hi Line Dragway: Box Class – Steve Neifer, No Box Class – Dylan Bergos

Oxford Plains Dragway: Box Class – Bud Finch, No Box Class – Ron Childs

Thunder Valley Dragway: Box Class – Tom Gall, No Box Class – Ken Ludwig

Rocky Mountain Raceway: Has yet to hold their run off to determine the racers eligible.