ANDERSON SWITCHING CARS THIS TIME
Thu, 2009-09-24 08:02
Greg Anderson prides himself in being a leader. However, this weekend headed into the NHRA 
Fallnationals in Ennis, Tex., he’s hoping to follow the lead of teammate Jason Line.
Earlier this year, the Summit Racing team made a bold change prior to their sponsor’s race in Norwalk, Ohio, with Line moving from the Pro Stock Pontiac he had used in the first 11 races of the season to the car Anderson had campaigned in 2008. The move paid immediate dividends, as Line not only won that weekend’s race, but advanced to the final round in the next five races.
Greg Anderson prides himself in being a leader. However, this weekend headed into the NHRA Fallnationals in Ennis, Tex., he's hoping to follow the lead of teammate Jason Line.
Earlier this year, the Summit Racing team made a bold change prior to their sponsor's race in Norwalk, Ohio, with Line moving from the Pro Stock Pontiac he had used in the first 11 races of the season to the car Anderson had campaigned in 2008. The move paid immediate dividends, as Line not only won that weekend's race, but advanced to the final round in the next five races.
Anderson, the three-time champion, will now park the car he started the season with and jump into the tangerine-colored Summit Racing GXP originally driven by Line and most recently leased and raced by Ronnie Humphrey. With this year's Full Throttle Pro Stock championship on the line, it was a gamble Anderson felt was worth taking.
"With so much on the line, we felt the time was right to shake things up, so this weekend I'll be racing Jason's Summit Racing Pontiac from the beginning of the year," explained Anderson. "Just like it was with Jason before Norwalk, I'm sure there's nothing wrong with my race car. However, for whatever reason, it has just not been responding the way we'd like, so we decided to alter the formula.
"We're not going to change anything but the driver. Hopefully, we'll not only get back to running the way we should, but we'll also see where we went wrong with the other car. It worked for Jason and Robert Hight (a Funny Car racer who swapped rides with his boss John Force earlier this season), so maybe it will work for me, putting us back into contention in the Countdown."
Fallnationals in Ennis, Tex., he’s hoping to follow the lead of teammate Jason Line.Earlier this year, the Summit Racing team made a bold change prior to their sponsor’s race in Norwalk, Ohio, with Line moving from the Pro Stock Pontiac he had used in the first 11 races of the season to the car Anderson had campaigned in 2008. The move paid immediate dividends, as Line not only won that weekend’s race, but advanced to the final round in the next five races.
Greg Anderson prides himself in being a leader. However, this weekend headed into the NHRA Fallnationals in Ennis, Tex., he's hoping to follow the lead of teammate Jason Line.Earlier this year, the Summit Racing team made a bold change prior to their sponsor's race in Norwalk, Ohio, with Line moving from the Pro Stock Pontiac he had used in the first 11 races of the season to the car Anderson had campaigned in 2008. The move paid immediate dividends, as Line not only won that weekend's race, but advanced to the final round in the next five races.
Anderson, the three-time champion, will now park the car he started the season with and jump into the tangerine-colored Summit Racing GXP originally driven by Line and most recently leased and raced by Ronnie Humphrey. With this year's Full Throttle Pro Stock championship on the line, it was a gamble Anderson felt was worth taking.
"With so much on the line, we felt the time was right to shake things up, so this weekend I'll be racing Jason's Summit Racing Pontiac from the beginning of the year," explained Anderson. "Just like it was with Jason before Norwalk, I'm sure there's nothing wrong with my race car. However, for whatever reason, it has just not been responding the way we'd like, so we decided to alter the formula.
"We're not going to change anything but the driver. Hopefully, we'll not only get back to running the way we should, but we'll also see where we went wrong with the other car. It worked for Jason and Robert Hight (a Funny Car racer who swapped rides with his boss John Force earlier this season), so maybe it will work for me, putting us back into contention in the Countdown."
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