Things got off to a very moist and foggy start today at the Shakedown At The Summit. Heavy fog caused a slight delay in the racing but the Kurt Johnson-led team here at Summit Motorsports Park got things in order quickly for racing to begin.

Brian Chin had to do some thrashing on his Outlaw 10.5 Camaro late on Thursday night to get ready for qualifying today. “We had a little mishap after we put new head gaskets on and got water in the oil. We decided to skip testing to make sure things were repaired correctly and ready to go. Everything was drained out of the engine, it was cleaned it up, and will be ready for qualifying today. The goal is to make good consistent passes and have some fun racing this weekend.”

Carl Stevens Jr. dropped the hammer on the Pro Mod field during the first round of qualifying with a 5.64 at 261 MPH. This comes after the team struggled to get down the track during testing on Thursday. The booming pass looked relatively effortless for the Jim Bell owned machine and it should pick up more during the Q2 session tonight.

Charles Hull is back racing in the X275 ranks after taking a little bit of time off racing and selling all of his equipment. If the car he’s driving looks familiar it’s because this is the car that he originally owned, sold, and then purchased back from Leroy Nabors Jr. Hull’s first round of qualifying landed him in the top half of the field with a solid 4.53 pass.