IHRA - International Hot Rod Association Drag Racing

The Summit Sportsman World Champion is eligible to win a $160,000 prize package: $50,000 from Summit Racing Equipment and if you qualify, an added Bonus from Summit of $50,000. That's $100,000 from Summit alone! From Pontiac, the Summit Sportsman World Champion receives a 40th Anniversary Pontiac Grand Prix GTP and a 555cid Super Series Engine from Reher-Morrison, in addition to an IHRA World Championship gold ring, media recognition and will be crowned at the Annual IHRA Championship Banquet! The second place driver in the world receives a turn-key Joe Monden Race Cars 4-link dragster! You don't have to spend a fortune traveling! Just participate in the points program at your local IHRA track. IHRA racers in Top, Modified, Super and Motorcycle are eligible.

Your performance will be measured against the performance of other IHRA sportsman racers. The racer with the highest performance average at the end of the 2002 racing season (April-Sept), will be crowned Summit World Champion. If the World Champion qualifies for the Summit Customer bonus (detailed below), the value of the prize package escalates to over $150,000! The top 5 drivers at each track as well as the Top 5 in each Division, earn cash rewards & are also eligible for the Summit Customer Bonus.

Summit Customer Bonus
DOUBLE YOUR WINNINGS!

The Summit Racing Equipment customer bonus doubles the amount paid to the Top 5 in the Summit Super Series at the local and divisional level, as well as the overall Summit World Champion.

Here’s How To DOUBLE Your Winnings!

Summit customers that purchase $1,000 or more in merchandise from Summit Racing will be eligible for the bonus. Returned/refused merchandise will not count toward the total.
Qualifying purchases must be made between Jan 1, 2002 and July 1st, 2002. Purchases can be made by phone, fax, retail store, mail or web. All merchandise available from Summit counts toward the total (race parts, street, truck, gift certificates, etc).
Qualifying purchases must be made under the name of the competing driver, not the car owner, crewmembers or others.
When making purchases toward your total, use the special IHRA Summit Super Series Source Code SPR002. When placing your order by phone, fax or mail be sure to give the salesmen this code. Summit will keep track of your total eligible purchases based on this source code. Orders placed on the web will be tracked by the driver’s name.

PARTICIPANT GUIDELINES!

Drivers must be an IHRA member. Participants will be issued a Summit SuperSeries number by IHRA.
Drivers must be entered in their ‘Home Track’ points program.
Drivers must display IHRA, Summit, Pontiac, and supporting sponsors decals in designated location (See IHRA Rulebook) on vehicle throughout the entire 2002 season.
Drivers must wear IHRA patches on fire jackets and/or uniforms.
Racers in Top, Modified, Super and Bike are eligible.
The Top 5 in 2001 IHRA or NHRA National Points Standings are not eligible.
Drivers must have a single, unique competition number. His/her performance rating will only be counted at one track (the driver's home track).
Your home track must be an IHRA Member track.
Tracks must e-transfer round sheets to IHRA by noon Monday following event.
Rainouts and/or partially completed races will not count. Only data from completed events will be used.
Buyback wins do not count.
Run-off wins do not count.
Bye runs: Racers must stage and take the tree.
Drivers are responsible to insure that his/her ET slip has the correct number. If the number is wrong, the track must edit in the correct number the day of the event.
A minimum of 50 'possible round wins' must be obtained for a driver to be 'in the program'. Drivers who do not obtain 50 possible rounds will have losses added to their score until the minimum is reached.
Points will be acquired from April through Sept of 2002.
Ties are broken by # of Wins, # of Runner-Ups or Coin Flip.

IHRA Warns: "No Diving" in Summit World Championship
To maintain the integrity of the Summit World Championship chase, IHRA will conduct verification checks using the race data sent by tracks. Competitors having other drivers "dive" for them in an effort to pad their score will not be tolerated. If a driver is found to have willfully and knowingly had drivers "dive" rounds to them, they will be suspended from the program and forfeit all points. Also, IHRA has begun collecting photographs to verify that participants have been running the required decals for the series.

Calculating Your 'Performance Rating’

IHRA racers in Top, Modified, Super and Motorcycle will have their 'round-win percentage' weighed against the total number of rounds actually run in their class. This number yields a "Performance Rating" (PR). The performance rating 'averages' a racer's performance for the entire year. The math will be automatically computed from each track's race log. To compute your PR:

Eg. It takes 7 rounds to actually win Top at MIR. You win 3 rounds and lose the 4th round.

Rd Win Percentage: 3 / 4 = .750 Possible Rd Win Percentage: 3 / 7 = .429
*Double the Rd Win Percentage: .750 x 2 = 1.5 Add Possible Rd Win % .429 + 1.5 (Doubled Rd Win %)= 1.929
*Since a racer has more control over this element, we double the Rd Win percentage, thereby putting more emphasis on this.

Performance Rating = 1.929 divided by 3 (3 is the number of items used to arrive at PR)
In this case the performance rating (PR) is .643

Year-end Performance Ratings are determined by total round wins, total round losses, and total possible rounds for a given driver. The final PR is not an average of a driver's daily PR's

ATTENTION TRACK OPERATORS!
YOU WIN TOO!

Sunoco presents bonus money to the home tracks of the World Champion and the four remaining Divisional Champions!

Place	Prize
1st	$ 5,000
2nd	$ 2,000
3rd	$ 1,000
4th	$ 1,000
5th	$ 1,000

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