If ever something was meant to be, perhaps it was the IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship Troy Williams Jr. won in Top Sportsman this year. Williams had won multiple championships but none when he faced a significant health challenge and missed a large part of the season like he did...

Rob Harvischak from Warren, Ohio won Sunday's International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) Summit Sportsman National Championship race at Dragway 42 to become IHRA Top Sportsman National Champion.Harvischak's victory allowed him to overtake Marlon Goates, the Troy, Texas driver who came into the weekend as the class leader.Troy Williams Jr. from...

When International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) teams arrive at Dragway 42 later this week for the final weekend of the IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship, they won't find one general manager; they'll be greeted by co-general managers. Gary Harper joined the Dragway 42 team in August after working at several...

The inaugural season of the International Hot Rod Association Summit Sportsman National Championship is racing toward a fantastic finish.Drivers and teams will head to Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio for the series' 14th and final stop. Under the SSNC format, championships are determined using points claims from the best...

The International Hot Rod Association Summit Sportsman National Championship is coming down the home stretch with the upcoming double-race weekend at Carolina Dragway in Aiken, S.C.It is the 13th stop in what has become a 14-race series after the recent cancellation at Baton Rouge. Under the SSNC format, championships are...

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...

She comes from Campobello, in upstate South Carolina's Spartanburg County. The 2010 census counted just over 500 residents, but one of the town's families has contributed several racecar drivers and one gifted singer to International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) events.Meet the Volkman family: IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship drivers Emily,...

Which is harder, rolling the perfect game in bowling or making the perfect run in drag racing? Peter Maduri, a champion in both sports, has done both. He said it's not that close."A perfect run in bracket racing is substantially harder," said Maduri, one of the top drivers in the...

For a long time, David Schmidt wasn't flying down the track. Instead, he had his head in the clouds.The defending International Hot Rod Association Quick Rod champion didn't race for nearly two decades. Instead, the Flintstone, Ga., driver took up a new hobby of hang gliding.All it took was one...

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...