It's the busiest racing weekend of the season so far for the International Hot Rod Association with a pair of double-race weekends for the Summit Sportsman National Championship and the first of nine division races in the Summit Team Finals.Summit Sportsman National Championship races are scheduled for Memphis International Raceway...

Two-thirds of the way through the 2017 season, a trio of tight points battles highlight the International Hot Rod Association Summit Sportsman National Championship.Under the SSNC format, championships are determined using points claims from the best seven of the 10 events in which the racer competes.With eight races under their...

With the love of drag racing often passed from one generation to another, it comes as little surprise that Paul Mosley inherited his passion for the sport from his father.However, what makes Mosley's situation different is his wife, son and daughter have all felt the same need for speed.The defending...

Following the IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship's debut visit to Immokalee Regional Raceway and Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida, the series leaves the Sunshine State for a three-day weekend at the historic State Capitol Raceway in Port Allen, Louisiana, outside Baton Rouge.State Capitol is the third-oldest, continuously run quarter-mile...

Above: Troy Williams Jr. in Top DragsterJust like the week before at Immokalee Regional Raceway, ideal Florida weather greeted more than 200 drag racers at Palm Beach International Raceway on Friday and Saturday, for the second round of the new IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship, the series that runs over...

"We're making some history here," said Ralph Hester, owner of Immokalee Regional Raceway in southwest Florida.And he was right, times two: First, the 2017 IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship kicked off here with separate, complete events last Saturday and Sunday at IRR.And second, eliminations on both days aired live on...

With the nationwide inaugural IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship series, the sanctioning body has created a genuine national series for Sportsman racers, moving away from the regional format of the past.With the release of the rules package, competitors have a clear pathway to participation in the series, which pays an...

We already know when the new IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship kicks off, and it won't be long – February 3-5 at Immokalee Regional Raceway, just east of Florida's Gulf Coast and some of the nicest beaches in the country – with the second race a week later at Palm...

The season starts early for the new Summit Sportsman National Championship, which takes the place of the Summit Pro-Am Tour regional format.The Summit Sportsman National Championship is designed to move IHRA class racing away from a regional structure and focus on a national structure. The Summit Sportsman National Championship is...

The mission of Immokalee Regional Raceway is "To keep racing on the strip and off the street."And for 18 years, that's what the all-concrete, eighth-mile strip east of Fort Myers and Naples, Florida has done.And next season, it will be the first stop for the IHRA's new 2017 Summit Sportsman...