Rick Harbaugh and Nick Akoury were the first winners of the week on OEM Combustion Service Wednesday at the Summit Racing Equipment Fling at Norwalk presented by Total Seal Piston Rings at Summit Motorsports Park.
During time trials, 32 shootout drivers rolled in the lanes for their shot at a new Race Tech dragster chassis valued at $23,590. In the door car versus dragster final Rick Harbaugh from Gaithersburg, MD came out on top over Mike Matty Jr. from Sullivan, OH by way of a double breakout. Harbaugh was .003 under the 4.67 dial to Matty’s .005 under the 5.37 dial.
Both Harbaugh and Matty laid down laps in the semifinals, where Matty was .013 total to the .018 total of Gage Burch on the door car side while Harbaugh was .006 total against Ron Stayer Jr. on the dragster side of the ladder.
After a bogey qualifying session in the afternoon, the top 16 packages were selected to participate in a free $5,000 shootout courtesy of Coltrin Door and Moulding. Nick Akoury and Tim Markoglu were separated by just one thousandth on the starting line with Akoury getting to the stripe first by .005 to turn on the final round winlight.
Advanced Product Design Thursday will host $20,000 eliminations for 435 pre-entered racers with Strange Engineering $50,000 Friday, ATI Performance Products $50,000 Saturday, and S&T Truck Repair $30,000 Sunday to follow.
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