Super Pro driver Dale Green, representing Pacific Raceways, wheeled his DG Machine Mullis dragster to a semifinal finish at the Summit Racing Series National Championships on Sunday in Pomona, Calif.
The race was held in conjunction with the 47th Annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals.
Green, who resides in Kent and owns DG Machine in Auburn, was edged in the semifinal round by eventual champion Mark Horton, who represented South Georgia Motorsports Park. Both drivers left with nearly identical reaction times. Horton’s margin of victory was 0.0122 seconds. Green ran a 7.243 on a 7.22 dial.
Tacoma’s Mark Faul, former Pacific Raceways bracket champion who was racing for MHDRA Dragstrip in Medicine Hat, Alberta, was the Summit Sportsman runner-up. Faul lost a double-breakout final in his 1951 Chevy to Edmond Richardson.
Faul finished the season 12th in the nation in Super Stock points and 15th in Stock Eliminator points.
Another former Pacific Raceways bracket champion, Jody Lang of Puyallup, powered his Chevrolet Malibu to the Super Stock win at Pomona.
Lang finished the season ninth in the nation in Super Stock points and second in Stock Eliminator points.
Former track champion Toby Lang, of Auburn, ended the year 11th in Stock points, one spot ahead of Pacific Raceway’s Brad Burton and his hard-charging Pontiac. Dallas Glenn, of Covington, wound up 23rd in the Stock final standings, driving the Dr. Injector Corvette.