One day after clinching his spot in the NHRA’s playoffs, Summit Racing Pontiac driver Jason Line displayed the form that allowed him to accomplish that feat, scoring a runner-up finish at Sunday’s final eliminations of the NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle, WA. It was Line’s third consecutive final, 40th of his career, and second in a row at Pacific Raceways.

One day after clinching his spot in the NHRA’s playoffs, Summit Racing Pontiac driver Jason Line displayed the form that allowed him to accomplish that feat, scoring a runner-up finish at Sunday’s final eliminations of the NHRA Northwest Nationals in Seattle, WA. It was Line’s third consecutive final, 40th of his career, and second in a row at Pacific Raceways.

After qualifying fourth, Line defeated V. Gaines, Jeg Coughlin and Allen Johnson in the earlier rounds before squaring off against Mike Edwards in the final, who posted the quickest elapsed time in all three rounds of eliminations as well as in three of the four qualifying sessions. Despite Line’s recording his best reaction time of the day and a strong 6.601-second, 210.50 mph run, Edwards’ 6.583-second time was enough to give him the narrow victory.

“It was another good day for the Summit Racing team, although I would naturally have preferred it to be a great one,” said Line afterwards. “My hat’s off to (Mike) Edwards and his team – they did a good job today. They had been faster than us all day, so we knew we would need to get a couple hundredths on the tree. I gave it the best that I had, but unfortunately we came up a little short at the finish line. Although I feel like we are making strides, we’re not happy with runner-up finishes. We want to win races.” 

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