PowerNation TV’s Engine Power is finishing up the UMP DIRTcar Modified race car which will be sold at auction September 29 during the Summit Racing Modified Mania at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, IL scheduled for September 27-29. Proceeds from the sale will benefit Shriners Children’s Hospital. “The racer who buys this car will have
The sixth race of 24 in NHRA’s 2018 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series took place at zMAX Dragway near the motorsports hotbed of Charlotte, NC. Smack-dab in the middle of three in a row, the action was hot. Catch up on the results in the professional classes here. The Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series Sportsman
As part of the 2012 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration required commercial carriers to replace their traditional paper logs with a digital equivalent, called an electronic logging device (ELD). At first glance, you may think that these new guidelines only affect the commercial carriers, and
Summit Motorsports Park’s $1.6 million track reconstruction project remains on schedule to be finished in time for the April 28-29 Spring Warm-Up—the first of several major racing events at the Norwalk, OH dragstrip. The track reconstruction project will make the racing surface entirely concrete from the starting line through the finish line, which will improve
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” – Ernest Hemingway … You have to appreciate the boldness of the drivers from the earliest days of motor racing. Much of the drama surrounding auto racing back then stemmed from one simple fact: driving a race car was nothing
Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park in Norwalk, OH was named Track of the Year by NHRA’s North Central Division over the weekend at annual Land of the Winners Awards Banquet. It is the 18th time that Summit Motorsports Park has been given Track of the Year recognition by a major racing sanctioning body— eight times
There will be eight-car Pro Stock fields, instead of the customary 16, at certain NHRA events next year following NHRA’s decision this week to restrict the number of Pro Stock competitors at nine of 24 races scheduled for the 2018 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. “As the sanctioning body, NHRA is charged with making
NASCAR team owner and famed engine builder Robert Yates died this week after a battle with liver cancer that began in 2016. Yates was 74. We’re not happy about adding Yates to this week’s list of Awesome People We Lost Entirely Too Soon. (RIP, Tom Petty.) This OnAllCylinders writer grew up cheering for NASCAR’s Davey
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
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