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Summit Racing Team Sets Record, World's Quickest Car to Appear at Super Summit VIII

8 June 2000

Summit Racing Team Sets World Record, World's Quickest Car to Appear at Super Summit VIII    

    TALLMADGE, Ohio, June 7 Imagine sitting in a race car,
behind an idling 2100 horsepower engine. You floor the pedal and accelerate
from a standing start to 100 miles per hour in only one and a half seconds.

    That's the sensation that Summit Racing's Fred Hahn experienced this past
weekend as he drove the Summit Racing Pro Modified 1953 Corvette to set the
World Record for the quickest car on Earth.

    On Saturday, June 3, at an International Hot Rod Association drag race in
Grand Bend, Ontario, he sped down a quarter mile drag strip in just
6.179 seconds to set the record mark for the quickest elapsed time. He also
won the race. Just a month earlier at a previous IHRA drag race in Rockingham,
North Carolina, Hahn set the World Record for speed, traveling the quarter
mile at 227.65 miles per hour.

    Hahn's elapsed time of 6.179 seconds makes his car the quickest
"doorslammer," or stock-bodied car with operating doors, in the world with any
racing sanctioning body.

    Hahn, along with team owner and crew chief Jim Oddy, will display the car
at Summit Racing World Headquarters during Super Summit VIII, a car show held
Friday, June 9 and Saturday, June 10. Super Summit VIII will also have muscle
cars, street rods, and customized trucks on display from a dozen states.

    Super Summit VIII is free and open to the public. Hours are 1:00 pm to
9:00 pm Friday, and 9:00 am to 7:00 pm on Saturday, rain or shine. Summit
Racing is located on Interstate 76 at Exit 29 in Tallmadge. Food vendors will
be on the grounds.