With $155,000 worth of prize money up for grabs, the racing was intense during last weekend’s Summit Racing Equipment Shakedown at the Summit at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, OH. You can read more about the event and the results here. From blistering-fast Pro Mods to tire-melting Outlaws, over 100 racers competed in three days
NORWALK, OH — Powerful performances were in the spotlight at the Summit Racing Equipment Shakedown at the Summit this past weekend at Summit Motorsports Park. On the line was a pudgy $155,500 purse, including $66,600 for the event’s quickest and fastest category, ProLine Pro Mod. In Pro Mod action, Melanie Salemi secured a 5.71-second pass
NORWALK, OH – We can’t control the weather. Just ask every bride, golfer or outdoor event planner, ever. In most life situations, temperature and precipitation are the only weather-related things we must worry about. But drag racing isn’t most life situations. In competitive drag racing where there is typically little margin for error, unpredictable conditions
NORWALK, OH — The National Muscle Car Associations’ 2017 NMCA All-American Nationals roared into Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk this weekend. Armed with cameras, our team was there to take in some of the action. The event hosts a huge range of racing classes and vehicles. We saw everything from a vintage Plymouth station wagon
NORWALK, OH – In racing, safety is as important as horsepower. For that reason, we talked to racers about staying safe on the track at the 2017 NMCA All-American Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, OH. Tom Hoffman races a 1968 Ford Mustang in the NMCA’s Open Comp class. His car boasts a 632-horsepower 351W that propels
NORWALK, OH. — Bo Butner is no stranger to success on the dragstrip. The 43-year-old Pro Stock driver from Indiana won the 2006 Lucas Oil Comp world championship and is a four-time Division 3 champion. But going into this weekend’s Summit Racing NHRA Nationals in Norwalk, OH, Butner finds himself in unchartered territory. He currently
NORWALK, OH. — Sitting in his office at Summit Motorsports Park, Bill Bader Jr. pulled his mobile phone from his pocket to play a voicemail message. The unmistakable voice of drag-racing legend John Force filled the air. It wasn’t a business call to the racetrack’s president and co-owner. It was simply a call to his
The gang at Bangshift outdid themselves with this one. After Canadian photographer Bob Boudreau shared with the Bangshift team a bunch of early 1970s photos he took at New England Dragway in Epping, NH; he mentioned that he also had a stash of unpublished photos from the 1973 NHRA Summernationals from Old Bridge Township Raceway
After a two-year string of several construction- and weather-related delays that have postponed the reopening of Dragway 42, it appears the end is finally here. Racetrack officials said the brand-new, fully redesigned racing surface should be ready for safe drag racing on Friday, May 26. The nearly 60-year-old motorsports facility with a rich drag racing
Many fans of NHRA drag racing are familiar with Jimmy Alund. While filling in for Greg Anderson behind the wheel of the Summit Racing Pro Stock Camaro in early 2014, Alund made a name for himself by winning the Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway. Alund was a new face in the NHRA winner’s circle following the
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