Summit Racing–Anderson Prepared to Zero in on Trouble Spot after NHRA Kansas Nationals

Anderson Prepared to Zero in on Trouble Spot after NHRA Kansas Nationals
 
TOPEKA, Kan. (May 19, 2013) – The 25th annual NHRA Kansas Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka saw some of the smoothest runs that the Summit Racing Pro Stock duo of Greg Anderson and Jason Line have seen all year, but the Minnesota-bred, Mooresville, N.C.-transplanted pair didn’t achieve the results that they were aiming for at the eighth of 24 events on NHRA’s Mello Yello Drag Racing Series tour.
 
Anderson, the No. 6 qualifier, halted veteran racer Larry Morgan in the first round, 6.707 to 6.723, and then clocked a very efficient .017-second reaction time before excessive clutch slippage resulted in a 6.723 that simply couldn’t better Allen Johnson’s 6.674 in round two.
 
“This weekend, the Summit Racing Camaros weren’t running as fast as we believe they truly can,” said Anderson. “And really, we cannot expect to win races at this pace. We’ve got to pick it up. The cars are not responding in a favorable direction to the changes that we’re making, and so we’re glad we have a week off before it’s time to go racing again. That will give us a chance to really figure it out so that we can go to Englishtown with a better product and really show our potential.”
 
After struggling with tire spin in recent events, Anderson was pleased that he and Line’s Summit Racing Camaros were able to make a series of clean journeys down the quarter-mile dragstrip over the course of the weekend.
 
“The cars are going down the track every time, the cars are very safe, and they feel very good – they’re just not running fast yet,” said Anderson. “We’ve definitely gotten better and sorted out the problems we were having earlier, but you have to have both a repeatable car and run fast. You can’t have one without the other and expect to win. We know it’s there, we just have to zero in on what, exactly, we’re doing wrong.”
 
Anderson is holding in the No. 8 spot in the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Pro Stock standings, and he has much on the agenda as he is chasing his first win of the season. The Summit Racing team so far has one win on their scorecard this year; Line was victorious in Houston.
 
“This one was definitely a bust for us, we didn’t perform as well as we should have, but that has the Summit Racing guys fired up to get home and get back to work,” said Anderson. “We’ve been faced with challenges before, and we have a very capable team. It’s time we show what we’re capable of.”