Words and photos by J M Hallas

San Antonio Raceway played host to another round of IHRA Summit Super Series racing Saturday night. Drivers competed on the ¼ mile in the Electronics, Quick 16, Footbrake and Jr. Dragster classes, as well as River City Index competition.

John Ahlstrom doing a burnout on his way to the Dialing for Dollars win

Track temperatures were a blazing 130* as the first round of Jr. Dragster time trials hit the track. By round 2 of time trials a cloud had covered the area cooling the track to 110*. As darkness crept in on the track for the opening round of eliminations, the track was at an ideal 100*.

In “Dialing for Dollars”, this week’s pot winner came out of the Footbrake class with John Ahlstrom’s Mustang coming the closest to his dial-in, running a 10.191 on a 10.190 (.001). Sonny Garza in his Firebird, running the Electronics class, came within .002 on his run, but still a bit short of Ahlstrom’s number.

Electronics winner David Johns waits for the green in the final round

Electronics

Floresville’s David Johns made it back to back Summit Super Series wins taking the Electronics victory over Darrell Hendricks(Luling). Johns, who used a better reaction time and performance advantage, ran down Hendricks’ Chevy Beretta despite giving up nearly two seconds on the tree.

David Johns, 7.297 @ 176.61 defeats Darrell Hendricks, 9.151 @ 141.42

Johns, in his Johns Automotive, Wayne’s Paint & Body, Chevy powered Worthy Chassis got a round 1 red light win, then dropped out of “Quick 16” in round 2 losing to David Burns. From there he used a .009 light to beat co-points leader, Carlos Carrasco sr., got a red light gift from World Champion, Scott Ball, a bye in round 5 and got through the semi finals when co-points leader, Michael Keylich red lit.

Hendricks took a win in round 1 after M. Hernandez went red, then two near perfect runs in round 2 and 3 took out Kip Scharf and M. Crisp who both broke out anyway. Hendricks caught a break, literally, in a double break out round 4 run against G. Mullen, plus a red light win over Preston Pennington, then used a .005 light to get past “Quick 16” winner Todd Robinson in the semis.