For 2009, the IHRA Summit SuperSeries features a total prize package of $250,000 to the participants all over the United States and Canada. The World Champions in the Box and No Box classes will each take home $10,000 cash from Summit Racing Equipment as well as an IHRA gold card, a world championship Ironman trophy, a world champion diamond ring, IHRA banquet recognition, and an Aruba vacation package.

The 2009 IHRA Summit SuperSeries Box class world champion will also receive a turn key Mullis dragster. The No Box class world champion will receive a bonus prize to be announced as well as a custom Ronnie Davis golf cart.

In 2009 the IHRA Summit SuperSeries program will be contested in the same manner as it was in 2008 with each participating track determining its Box and No Box class winner and runner-up. The two class winners will advance to a run-off held at the Bracket Team Finals (in US 131’s case, the Division 5 Thunder event held in Martin on Sept. 17-20).

The winners at the Division 5 event become part of the "Elite 8" who will face off for the 2009 World Championships at the IHRA World Finals held in Rockingham on October 24-25, 2009.

Racers advancing to the "Elite 8" will also see $7,000 awarded to the runners-up; $2,000 awarded to the semi-finalists; and $1,000 awarded to the quarter-finalists. Each of the racers in the "Elite 8" also receive $1,000 in tow money for the event.

In 2009 the Box and No Box track champions at US 131 will receive $1,000 each through the Summit SuperSeries program. The 2009 US 131 Box and No Box runners-up will receive $325 each through the Summit SuperSeries program.

Summit SuperSeries participants will also be eligible for contingency awards at the individual US 131 points events in 2009.

General rules for the 2009 IHRA Summit SuperSeries program state that participant's Summit SuperSeries points will not begin until they are registered with both the track and IHRA; must sign up for the points program at the Summit Super Series track; join IHRA and recieve Summit SuperSeries Membership and license; and may not change car number, class, or track after running their first SSS event of 2009.

Last season US 131 racer Justin Wanamaker made the trip to Rockingham by winning the No Box run off at the team finals. That accomplishment not only showed his own racing skill, but also proved that the IHRA Summit SuperSeries program does indeed offer what is advertised, a chance for a local racer to compete for a World Championship.