BRASELTON - Jonathan Summerton raced to his fourth Atlantic Championship victory of the year Friday, winning at Road Atlanta to move into second place in the season standings behind female star Simona De Silvestro with one event left.<br />
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The 21-year-old American Formula 1 hopeful started from the pole and led every lap in the No. 34 Nuclear Clean Air Energy/Entergy/NEI machine, beating De Silvestro to the stripe by 4.208 seconds. Summerton passed Newman Wachs Racing teammate John Edwards for second in the standings and closed within seven points of De Silvestro.<br />
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Summerton has won three of the last four races and is tied with De Silvestro for the series victory lead entering the season finale in Monterey, Calif.<br />
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"Coming from (last month's race at) Mosport and a dominating weekend there, we were fastest in all the practices and qualifying and we won the race there, it was the same thing here," Summerton said. "We were very, very quick in all the practices and qualified on pole and won the race. I think we're in for a good run at Laguna Seca.<br />
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"I hope John will be there also with us up there strong. Basically, I can only do what I can do and focus on winning races. The rest is out there. We're going for a championship and I know it can be done. The way the car has been the last three or four races, I can't complain. I know we're going to have a strong car in Laguna. Hopefully, we can do it in dominating fashion again there."<br />
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