2019 IHRA Rulebook

IHRA 5 SUMMIT SUPERSERIES This $200,000 program is the World Championship for IHRA member track sportsman racers. Summit Racing Equipment, the Official Mail Order Company of IHRA, presents this revolutionary program for IHRA's thousands of grassroots racers. The Summit SuperSeries World Championship will take place October 17-19, 2019 at Memphis International Raceway. SUMMIT SUPERSERIES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP This program will crown a true Top (Box), Mod (No Box), Sportsman and Junior Dragster World Champion. There are two ways to gain entry into the Summit SuperSeries World Championship. A racer can qualify by either winning the Summit Super Series track championship at a participating IHRA member track OR by winning a Summit Team Finals main event class. PARTICIPANT GUIDELINES: 1) Summit SuperSeries points will not begin until a racer is registered with BOTH IHRA and a local track and running an X-Number on the vehicle with it appearing on a track points page. 2) Racers in Top, Mod, Sportsman, Street, Bike and Junior Dragster are eligible (based on participating track's discretion). 3) A racer may compete for the Summit SuperSeries track championship at more than one track. Should one racer win the SSS championship at two different tracks (regardless of class), they will have to declare the track they will represent prior to the Summit Team Finals. Once the racer selects the track they will represent, the racer must then forefit the SSS track championship at the second track. A racer may only have one entry and represent one track at the SSS World Finals. 4) There will be no double entry for a competitor that may win the SSS track championship and a Summit Team Finals event. In the event a competitor wins both (regardless of class), the track championship will take precedent. 5) There are no substitutions for a Summit SuperSeries track champion or for a Summit Team Finals champion if that competitor chooses not to attend the Summit World Finals. 1) WIN THE SUMMIT SUPERSERIES AT YOUR PARTICIPATING IHRA TRACK. Each participating track will crown Summit SuperSeries track champions who will then move on to race at the IHRA Summit World Finals for the Summit SuperSeries World Championship. Summit SuperSeries Step #1 Be a Summit SuperSeries member of the IHRA. This includes membership benefits, a license and a Summit SuperSeries number (commonly called the X-Number). The second digit of the number will be the letter “X” for full size vehicles and the last digit on Junior Dragsters. * The same car may not be registered in multiple classes. If a racer is running in multiple classes, they must have a different X-Number for each vehicle. A competitor may only compete with one X-Number per class at any given facility. Summit SuperSeries Step #2 * Sign up for the track points at a participating IHRA Summit SuperSeries track. Summit SuperSeries Step #3 * Race at an IHRA track while running a Summit SuperSeries X-Number. Your Summit SuperSeries eligibility does not begin until a valid X-Number with the IHRA is obtained. That X-Number must also be used as the car number and must show up on the track’s points list throughout the season. Failure to run the X-Number or failure of that number to appear on the track’s points page will make a racer ineligible for the Summit SuperSeries even if a registered X-Number is on file with IHRA. Failure to maintain a