LINE FOLLOWS UP COUNTDOWN BERTH WITH RUNNER-UP
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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