Jonathan Summerton

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Jonathan Summerton (born April 21, 1988) is an American race car driver from Kissimmee, Florida. He began racing karts at the age of 14 and by the end of the year had began racing Skip Barber Series cars. In 2004 he began racing in Formula BMW USA and won the Formula BMW USA Scholarship to race in the international series the next year where he finished second at Spa-Francorchamps and finished 10th in the championship. In 2006 he competed in Formula Three Euroseries where he won the Hockenheim race and finished 9th in the championship. In 2007 he has made starts in the A1 Grand Prix series for A1 Team USA and took second in the feature race at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. For the rest of 2007 he drove a partial season in F3 EuroSeries in the debut of the new Volkswagen engine for RC Motorsport and tested a Champ Car Atlantic Series car for Derrick Walker. He has returned to A1 Team USA for the 2007-08 A1 Grand Prix season. Summerton captured A1 Team USA's first A1GP victory in the feature race at Shanghai.^[1] The American team would eventually finish 12th in the championship, with Summerton finishing 2nd in the final sprint race of the campaign, at Brands Hatch. For the 2008 season, he will race in the Atlantic Championship for Newman Wachs Racing.