Hall, Johnson win Summit SuperSeries titles

Words by Larry Crum
Photos courtesy IHRA

It is one of the most lucrative and prestigious awards in sportsman drag racing today and on Saturday night two drivers from completely opposite ends of the country added their names to the list of champions of the IHRA Summit SuperSeries.

Chris Hall, all the way from the mountains of Utah, and Chip Johnson, from just down the road in North Carolina, both claimed Summit SuperSeries World Championships in front of a packed house Saturday night at the World Finals Nitro Jam at Virginia Motorsports Park and in doing so added their names to a prestigious list of past winners of one of the richest sportsman drag races in the nation.

“This is a dream come true. I can’t even describe this and what it means to me and my crew,” Hall said. “I never in my wildest dreams thought when I started racing that I could be here doing this and now here we are and we are the best in the country. It is a wonderful feeling.”

Hall, representing Rocky Mountain Raceways in Salt Lake City, made the long haul from Utah after being selected as an at-large representative to participate in the eight-car Summit SuperSeries field. Hall joined seven other racers that won their respective Summit SuperSeries divisions in a runoff held earlier this year.

Now Hall, a talented racer who never dreamt his talents would leave the state of Utah, can add World Champion to his name after defeating Steve Alford in the No Box championship Saturday night in Virginia.