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The summer championship, formerly called the Summer Nationals, have been held since 1929 and take place in July or August. In the thirties, they were played in Asbury Park, NJ, and lasted eight days. Now the location rotates and they are played over 11 days. [10] The following national events are/were contested at the Summer NABC:
Notable former weekly drivers who have accomplished national accolades include: Shannon Babb (2nd winningiest driver in DIRTcar UMP Summer Nationals history (97), 4x Summer Nationals series champion, 2x Dirt Track World Championship Winner) Justin Allgaier (2008 ARCA Re/Max Series Champion, Xfinity Series winner)
Brennan Poole in a UMP Modified at Houston Raceway Park in 2008.. United Midwestern Promoters (UMP) is a short track motor racing sanctioning body in the United States that sanctions short track racing on dirt race tracks from 1/5 mile (0.3 km) in length to 1-mile (1.6 km) in length.
The NHRA Summernationals, hosted by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), was an annual drag racing event held from 1970 to 1992, 2002 to 2017 and again in 2020, mostly at the Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey.
Summernationals (also style SummerNationals) may refer to: . New England Summer Nationals; UMP DIRTcar Summer Nationals; see United Midwestern Promoters; AHRA SummerNationals; see American Hot Rod Association
Rockford Speedway was a 1/4 mile short track high banked asphalt oval located in Loves Park, Illinois on Illinois Route 173.Up until its demolition in 2023, Rockford Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, and World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway were the only racetracks running under NASCAR sanctions in Illinois.
In 1980, the Summer Workshop and Festival was relaunched as the Summer National Championship. The 1989 Summer National Champion, Christian Brothers, was a combined band representing four schools from the Chicago metro-area: Brother Rice, Mother McAuley, St. Laurence, and Queen of Peace high schools. Below is an incomplete list of champions:
Highland is the setting for the first song on the Illinois album by Sufjan Stevens, titled 'Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois', in which Stevens mentions a 21st-century UFO sighting by the owner of the local mini-golf course. [13] [14] Highland was also mentioned on The Daily Show on February 9, 2006.