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About the Summit Pro-Am Tour Presented By AMSOIL

For 2012, Summit Racing continues its partnership with IHRA on the Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL. Racers in Top Sportsman, Top Dragster, Super Stock, Stock, Quick Rod, Super Rod and Hot Rod will compete for both Pro-Am and World Championships. These drivers make up the back bone of IHRA drag racing with their competitiveness and skill.

Racers may attend up to eight Summit Pro-Am divisional races and are eligible to win a Divisional Championship. The program is designed to allow drivers to achieve championship status and earn prize money while minimizing travel. Summit Pro-Am Champions in each class will receive $1,500 and runner ups will earn $500 each. Champions will also receive an Ironman and an IHRA Gold Card. The top three in the Pro-Am classes in their division will earn automatic entry into the Summit Racing Tournament of Champions. All of this is over and above the World Championship Fund. Summit Pro-Am categories are also contested at select Nitro Jam events where winners are awarded entry into the Summit Racing Tournament of Champions that will be contested at the World Finals in October 2012.

Summit Pro-Am Racing Classes
	TOP SPORTSMAN As the class that spawned Pro Modified, Top Sportsman remains the “baddest” sportsman class on the planet. Covering the spectrum of passenger car body styles and power plants, Top Sportsman racers are not encumbered by displacement limitations or customizing rules, offering some of the most radical visual and mechanical thrills in drag racing.
	TOP DRAGSTER The fastest sportsman category in drag racing, Top Dragster is also renowned as one of the most innovative classes in IHRA. Combining dragsters and altered vintage roadsters, the class presents handicap racing with six second, 225 mph contestants.
	SUPER STOCK As the arena for factory muscle car showdowns for decades, this class spotlights some of the most powerful production vehicles ever built. Cars run on a handicapped start, but each must run under their sub-category’s National Index, determined by a power to weight ratio. In addition to traditional Super Stockers, there are also sub-categories for GT entries, front wheel drive conversions, trucks, and Super Stock production entries.
	STOCK Considered drag racing’s “entry level” division, this class offers economical racing machines in an incredibly competitive forum, with everything from 130 mph muscle cars to 75 mph family sedans. All demand original production equipment with which the car was marketed to the public. Cars run on a handicapped start, but each must run under their sub-category’s National Index, determined by a power to weight ratio.
	QUICK ROD The fastest of the “Rod” categories, Quick Rod offers dragsters, altereds, vintage roadsters, coupes, and passenger cars racing with a heads up start. The objective of the class is to beat an opponent to the finish line without going under the 8.90-second Class Index, or 5.70 in the 1/8th mile.
	SUPER ROD This class features passenger cars and vintage roadsters also competing on an even start. Like Quick Rod, vehicles are permitted virtually any engine modification. Races are run on a 9.90 Class Index, or 6.40 for the 1/8th mile.
	HOT ROD This class may appear as an entry-level division with its slower 10.90 Class Index or 7.00 in the 1/8th mile, but it presents some of the closest competition of any category.