Their rides were vastly different, but both Cory Maloney and Layton Sumpter walked away with big victories over the weekend at the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) Summit Sportsman Spectacular event at Maryland International Raceway.Driving No Box door car, Maloney of Pasadena, Maryland, won Saturday’s Moser Engineering Saturday $10,000-to-win top...

Perry Comeaux and Brian Hughes made history as the first winners of the new International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) Summit Sportsman Spectacular races Saturday at State Capitol Raceway.Comeaux from Praireville, Louisiana, was the winner of Saturday's Moser $10k race. Hughes from Diana, Texas was the winner of the LaQuinta Inn...

To say the odds were stacked against Jerry Cotton in 2017 would be a huge understatement.At an age when most folks retire and battling a health condition which left him nowhere near full strength, Cotton came within one round of becoming an International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) World Champion.Cotton was...

Tom Gall explained it was a long journey to win the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) Top World Championship last weekend at the Summit World Finals.The 28-year-old driver wasn't talking about the 800-mile drive from his hometown of Beresford, South Dakota, to Memphis International Raceway. He was talking about the...

When the 2017 International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) season began, Christopher Webb approached the season like any other – hoping to run well enough to compete for a championship. Little did he know that things would work out just right for him and that after a terrible tale on their...

Fabian Brown, a professional announcer from Waldorf, Md., has been the voice of Maryland International Raceway in Mechanicsville, Md., a short drive south of Washington, D.C., for 14 years. The Maryland native planned to enlist in the United States Marine Corps, but when that didn't work out, he already had...

The International Hot Rod Association Summit Team Finals crank back up this weekend with events scheduled at three different tracks.Teams from Division 2 East (Heat Wave) will compete at Carolina Dragway in Aiken, S.C., those from Division 3 (North Stars) will be at Keystone Raceway Park in New Alexandria, Pa.,...

Jeff Longhany was a standout football player at the University of North Carolina and had professional aspirations. During his career at Cape Fear High School near Fayetteville, N.C., Longhany played offense and defense, but defense was his specialty – he recorded nearly 250 tackles in his varsity football career. He...

World champions, record-holders and several exotic racing machines highlight the line-up for the 64th annual World Series of Drag Racing, presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts, to be held on Aug. 25-27 at Cordova International Raceway.Three-time NHRA World Champion Larry Dixon and Dom Lagana, who made the fastest IHRA pass in...

To the untrained Junior Dragster eye, a quick look at the JR Race Car website shows just about anything a family interested in starting a Junior Dragster program for a child would need to get started. They have chassis, engines, clutches, wheels, tires, flywheels and much more – all the...