Six more racers headed for Summit SuperSeries

Words by Larry Crum
Photos courtesy IHRA

For the six drivers from this past weekend’s Division 2 West Summit Team Finals presented by AMSOIL and Moser Engineering at Memphis International Raceway that earned their way to the World Finals via the Summit SuperSeries, the trip isn’t going to be all that bad. That is because this past weekend’s Summit Team Finals took place at the same location as the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals this coming weekend and for most drivers that means leaving the rigs in one place for the week in preparation for this weekend’s big race.

The Memphis team.

In all six more drivers earned their way to the IHRA Summit SuperSeries presented by AMSOIL and Moser Engineering World Championship and Memphis International Raceway, home to this year’s season finale, took the team crown over Jackson Dragway as both teams finished the weekend with 44 points. Alabama International Dragway finished third in the team competition, followed by London Dragway and Knoxville Dragway rounding out the top five of the more than a dozen tracks on hand.

Jonathan Robin

In the Summit SuperSeries Jonathan Robin of State Capitol Raceway and Ken LaBoe of Middle Tennessee Dragway advanced in Top ET, Shane Kay of Alabama International Dragway and Jay Landry of State Capitol Raceway advanced in Mod ET and Wesley Mayfield of Montgomery Motorsports Park and Dylan Kiser of London Dragway advanced in Junior Dragster.

Both the winner and runner-up from the Division 2 West Summit SuperSeries runoff advanced.

In the Top ET final both Jonathan Robin and Ken LaBoe were deadly on the tree throughout the day, but both ran into trouble on the final run and it all came down to a battle of battered cars. Robin ran closest to the numbers with a 5.979 on a 4.82 dial, while LaBoe crossed the line with a 7.968 on a 5.58.