Jason Line is one calm, cool guy.

After all, what does the 46-year-old driver of the Summit Racing Equipment Chevy Camaro have to be stressed about?

He is leading the Pro Stock points. He just collected his seventh win in 12 races on the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series tour. His team, sponsored by parts supplier Summit Racing Equipment, just won the Summit race at the Summit track for the second year in a row.

It sure is nice being Jason Line.

“This is the most relaxed I have ever been in since I started racing,” Line said. “It is nice to be able to not be in a panic when you go back to the shop. You can think about things a little more.”

On Sunday, Line continued his dominating year in the Pro Stock ranks as he raced to his seventh win of the 2016 season and reached his 11th final in 12 races. It was also the seventh time this season that both Line and his teammate, Greg Anderson, have met in a final. But this time, it was Line emerging the victor, running a 6.678 at 208.42 mph in the heat to claim his second career Norwalk win. Anderson, who won this race last year, ran a 6.717 at 208.36 to finish in the runner-up spot.

“It sure sounds easy, what we are doing out here, but the execution usually proves to be difficult,” Line said. “But right now, our cars are so good. It certainly wasn’t an easy day, but it was a great day.

“Greg, he is tough. He is probably the person I want to race the most in the final, but he is also probably the person I want to race least in the final. I felt like we had a slight advantage having the lane, but usually when I race him I will do something to give that up. He is tough, very seldom do you catch him being .50 on the tree. We struggled on the tree as well, but it was good enough.

“To win at the Summit race with the Summit car at the Summit track, it is a huge deal. Somehow, we have been very fortunate to make that happen throughout our careers.”

Line added wins over Vincent Nobile, Erica Enders-Stevens and Curt Steinbach to reach the final, and he admitted he has noticed a considerable shrinking in the gap between he and his KB Racing teammate and the rest of the field.

“Some of the cars were very close to us. It was a little bit different than it has been in the past. They are obviously getting closer,” Line said. “That is good for them, but not good for us. We didn’t run as well as we would have liked today, but we are just going to have to work even harder to keep that advantage.”

In addition to extending his points lead to 115 points over Anderson and 593 points over third place Bo Butner, Line also learned that he and his teammate have already locked up a spot in the 2016 Countdown to the Championship, the earliest a driver has clinched a spot in the field since Tony Schumacher did the same in 2008.

“It is a little early. We haven’t really thought about that a whole lot, but we felt pretty secure that we were getting in one way or another,” Line said. “To clinch it that early is pretty crazy. But we will take it.”

After the race, Line was asked what drives him to be so successful on the track, and he joked that the reason for his seven wins and 11 finals so far this year is pretty simple. He has mouths to feed.

“The thing that fires me up every week, it is my wife and kids. They like to eat, so just keeping my job and doing the best I can,” Line said with a laugh. “It is easy to be happy when you are winning. It is not going to stay like this. We have been through bad times as well and obviously we are going to enjoy this while it lasts. I think we are going to win a few more before the year is out.”

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