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Dan Runte
Team Information:
• Race Truck – Summit Racing Equipment BIGFOOT^® #16
• Team Owner – Bob Chandler

Career Highlights:
• Hired as BIGFOOT^® crewmember in 1989, eventually ascending to the role of driver
• Has actively competed in monster truck competition for 15 years
• Holds three Guinness World Records, including “Longest Ramp Jump in a Monster Truck” at 202 feet, (clearing a 727 jetliner in the process)
• Set Monster Truck quarter-mile land speed record at 84.49 mph in 2009
• Has appeared around the world with BIGFOOT^®, visiting Australia, Curacao and Puerto Rico
• Three-time MTRA Driver of the Year, first driver to win award three times
• Two-time Penda Points Series Champion
• Won Inaugural MLMT Racing Championship in 2007

Greg Anderson
Team Information:
• Race Car – Summit Racing Equipment Pro Stock Pontiac GXP
• Racing Series – NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series
• Team owner – Ken Black
• Crew Chiefs – Rob Downing/Tommy Utt/Jeff Perley Career Highlights (as of September 12, 2011):
• Four-time NHRA Pro Stock champion (2003-2005, 2010)
• 2004 Speed Channel Driver of the Year, one of only three drag racers to earn the honor
• 70 NHRA National Event Wins (3rd most all-time in Pro Stock, 4th NHRA all-time)
• 103 NHRA Final Round Appearances
• 75 No. 1 qualifying performances (4th all-time in NHRA)
• 518 – 191 Elimination Round Record (709 total rounds, 73.1% win percentage, highest among all active NHRA professional competitors)
• Career-best elapsed time of 6.495 sec. (set on March 15 in Gainesville) is tied for quickest in NHRA Pro Stock history
• Career-best top speed of 213.23 mph, set on March 15 in Gainesville, FL
• Most recent win was Mac Tools U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, IN on 9/5/11
• With his win at the O’Reilly Auto Parts Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Joliet, IL on 7/10/11, Greg now has at least one win at every track on the 2011 NHRA tour
• Won the 2011 K&N Horsepower Challenge, tying Kurt Johnson for the most wins in the event’s history at four
• Is one of only ten racers (four in Pro Stock) with over 500 elimination round wins
• Won the 2010 K&N Horsepower Challenge and the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk, becoming only the second Pro Stock racer to accomplish the “weekend sweep” twice (the other was Bob Glidden)
• Has won at least one national event in each of the last eleven seasons in Pro Stock (including 2011), the longest active winning streak among all NHRA professional classes
• 6-time U.S. Nationals winner (including four straight from 2003-2006)
• Holds single-season NHRA record for No. 1 qualifying performances at 16, set in 2004
• Holds single-season NHRA record for final round appearances at 19, also in 2004
• Set all-time NHRA record for most wins in a season at 15, which he currently shares with Tony Schumacher
• Won his first NHRA Pro Stock championship in only his second full season (2003)
• Has finished in the Top Three in the championship standings in each of his eight full seasons in Pro Stock

Rickie Jones
Team Information:
• Race Car – Quarter-Max/Summit Racing Pro Mod Camaro
• Racing Series – ADRL Pro Nitrous/NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod
• Team owners – Rick & Bonnie Jones
• Crew Chief – Rick Jones

Career Highlights:
• Earned first #1 qualifier of Pro Mod career at 2011 Shakedown at Palm Beach Shootout in March 2011 with 3.845 sec., 195.69 mph run
• Scored first final round appearance of Pro mod career at 2011 Shakedown at Palm Beach Shootout at Palm Beach International Raceway
• Competed in the NHRA’s Pro Stock Category from 2008-2010.
• Made his NHRA Pro Stock debut at the 2008 Gatornationals in Gainesville, FL
• Nominated for the 2008 Auto Club Road to the Future award given to the NHRA’s outstanding rookie
• Scored the first final-round appearance of his NHRA Pro Stock career at the fall 2009 Vegas race
• Finished in the Top Ten in the 2009 NHRA Full Throttle Pro Stock championship standings
• Career-best elapsed time (Pro Stock): 6.571 seconds, Gainesville, FL, March 2010
• Career-best top speed (Pro Stock): 210.14 mph, Gainesville, FL, March 2010
• Started Drag Racing at the age of 10 in a Junior Dragster

Jason Line
Team Information:
• Race Car – Summit Racing Equipment Pro Stock Pontiac GXP
• Racing Series – NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series
• Team owner – Ken Black
• Crew Chiefs – Rob Downing/Tommy Utt/Jeff Perley

Career Highlights (as of September 12, 2011):
• 2006 NHRA Pro Stock champion
• 2004 NHRA Road to the Future Award winner as the sport’s most outstanding rookie
• 1993 NHRA Stock Eliminator national champion
• 25 NHRA National Event Wins
• 53 NHRA Final Round Appearances
• 21 No. 1 qualifying performances
• Career-best elapsed time of 6.496 seconds, the second quickest elapsed time in NHRA Pro Stock history (set on March 16 in Gainesville FL)
• Career-best top speed of 213.20 mph (set on March 15 in Gainesville, FL)
• Most recent win came at the 2011 O’Reilly Northwest Nationals in Seattle, WA, where he defeated teammate Greg Anderson in the final
• 291 - 157 Elimination Round Record (448 total rounds, 65.0% win percentage)
• Has won at least one national event in each of his eight full seasons in Pro Stock, including 2011
• Has earned at least one No. 1 qualifying position in each of his eight full seasons in Pro Stock, including 2011
• Has finished in the Top Five in the championship standings for the last seven years
• Won his first NHRA Pro Stock championship in only his third full season
• Finished 5th in the 2010 NHRA Full Throttle Championship standings
• Is only the fourth driver in NHRA history to win three consecutive Gatornationals.
• Former head dyno operator for Joe Gibbs Racing in NASCAR
• Scored five wins (Pomona, Gainesville, Norwalk, Sonoma & Memphis) in nine final rounds in 2009, a new single-season career-best for wins