TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Beech Bend Raceway Park, Bowling Green, Ky. 48
Byron Dragway, Byron, Ill. 46
Route 66 Raceway, Joliet, Ill. 43
Milan Dragway, Milan, Mich. 41
Summit Motorsports Park, Norwalk, Ohio 40
Tri-State Dragway, Hamilton, Ohio 38
Crossroads Dragway, Terre Haute, Ind. 37
National Trail Raceway, Columbus, Ohio 36
Edgewater Sports Park, Cleves, Ohio 34
Muncie Dragway, Muncie, Ind. 32
Kil-Kare Dragway, Xenia, Ohio 32
Mid-Michigan Motorplex, Stanton, Mich. 31
Ohio Valley Dragway, Louisville, Ky. 29
Lucas Oil Raceway At Indianapolis 29
Bunker Hill Dragstrip, Bunker Hill, Ind.  26
Lyons Raceway Park, Lyons, Ind. 26
Gateway Motorsports Park, Madison, Ill. 25
Great Lakes Dragaway, Union Grove, Wis. 25
Coles County Dragway USA, Charleston, Ill. 20
Central Illinois Dragway, Havana, Ill. 20
Chandler Motorsports Park, Chandler, Ind. 15
Pacemakers Dragway Park, Mount Vernon, Ohio 12
Osceola Dragway, Osceola, Ind. 11

Beech Bend Raceway Park battled with Byron Dragway to take their first ever NHRA North Central Division Summit Racing Series Team Championship.  Byron Dragway, who won the team championship back in 2002 lead most of the day but the team from Bowling Green, Ky., pulled it out in the end with a two point victory. Edgewater Motorsports Park who tops the list with most team championships (6) finished in the middle of pack with 34 points and host track Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis finished with 29. 

The 36th Annual event started with 739 racers on Friday with five ending the day today with the title of NHRA North Central Division Summit Racing Series Champion led by Jason Bradley in the Super Pro class.  Bradley, Kirklin, Ind., over came a starting line advantage by Garry Fleenor, Port Clinton, Ohio, with a near perfect reaction time of .004 seconds taking the win with a near perfect run of his own at 7.026 seconds on a 7.02 dial in his ’70 Nova.

Evan Shoopman, Redkey, Ind., took the Pro trophy when fellow Indiana racer Mike Tewell, left early with a redlight foul start. Shoopman drove his ’86 Cutlass to a lap of 6.769 seconds at 101 mph as Tewell clocked in at 6.510, 105 mph.

Tony Lyons and Bob Nugent won in Sportsman and Super Pro Bike and will join Bradley and Shoopman in advancing to the NHRA Summit Racing Series National Championship in November at Auto Club Raceway at Pomona in California. Lyons, Ashkum, Ill., covered the famed quarter mile in 11.984 seconds at 104 mph in his ’89 Mustang to defeat Marvin Cresson Jr., Montgomery, Ill., and his ’72 Camaro going 12.374, 106. Trotwood, Ohio, racer Nugent went 131 mph in 9.780 seconds on his Kawasaki to beat Eric Harmon, Canfield, Ohio.

The final trophy went to High School Champion John Wheeler of Morton Grove, Ill., in a ’79 Aspen, running 12.182 at 105 mph against the quicker Ben Browder, Fairborn, Ohio, at 11.985, 102 mph.