Berner plans for short term losses to turn into long term successes
(7-28-2010) CRETE, IL – This past weekend at the ADRL Texas Drags, Pete Berner and the Summit Racing Equipment team made some pretty impressive runs. Despite their hard work and obvious talents, however, both races from the weekend turned into first round losses. The first race of the double header Berner turned on the red eye with an unfortunate .001 red. Then, he certainly looked primed for race two of the weekend, qualifying second with a stout 4.14 at 175 mph. However, despite looking flawless in several rounds of qualifying, Berner’s GXP shook in round one and he had to abort the run.
“Sometimes there are no reasonable explanations for the way things work,” told Berner. “We certainly have been pouring our heart and soul into this operation, but we haven’t been seeing the results we would expect. There seems to be a black cloud following this Summit trailer from race to race and I sure hope it dissipates or finds someone else soon!
“But in all seriousness, we don’t want to make excuses. We’ve been making some changes that cause the car to leave the line better. That in turn is improving my lights, and, in the case of our first round at Houston, it helped them a little too much. In the researching end of our engine program we make a lot of changes, and when we do that we lose some ability to maintain consistency. The intensive research and development we are doing will help us in the long run, but currently we are seeing more short term losses than we want. Obviously, the ability to last in the long term is what we’re looking for, but we certainly don’t want to sacrifice any more of our current races in the process.”
Although Berner and team have run into some obvious frustrations as the payoff for their hard work is seemingly overdue, this only convinces them to work harder.
“It may not always look like it, but we are always moving forward, working harder than ever before.”
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