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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. — Hundreds of rare vehicles—most of them orphan cars—collected over the past few decades by Ron Hackenberger with the original intent of displaying them in a museum will be sold at auction this weekend, July 15-16 beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. Online bidding has already begun, and live online bidding will be honored

NORWALK, OH. — Bo Butner used a .000 light to win his third Pro Stock race of 2017 on a holeshot Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals, and extending his points lead over the rest of the class as we hit the halfway mark of the 2017 NHRA Mellow Yello Drag Racing Series

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

In the 1970s and 1980s, alcohol funny cars were the kings of the quarter-mile. Nostalgia funny cars provide a step back in time, while still providing racetrack thrills even by today’s standards. Among the many things to see and do at Super Summit 2017 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, OH, will be to take

Want to smoke your tires, mash the gas pedal, and see how fast your car will go with zero risk of getting a speeding ticket? Want to test your road-course racing skills and get pro tips and guidance from the expert instructors from Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course? Those questions are rhetorical. Of course you do.

Photo by Andrew Courter With hundreds of racers and thousands of race fans at last year’s Summit Racing Equipment Shakedown at the Summit presented by Mickey Thompson Performance Tires and Wheels at Summit Motorsports Park, it seemed that the rules packages, payouts and pavement pounding action were prime. But as president of the globally known

Hundreds of cars showed up at National Trail Raceway in Columbus, OH September 11 to kick off Hot Rod Drag Week 2016, and a handful less made it to Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, OH two days later. Although Norwalk is only about 90 miles north of Columbus, the Drag Week route made drivers take a

NORWALK, OH — It’s nothing most of us haven’t seen before, so we think little of it. Two drivers suiting up, making their way through the staging lanes and water box. Two drivers prepping their race cars and tires with rubber-smoking burnouts before staging at the tree. Two drivers who launch when they see yellow,