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...

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...

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...

Only one level separate from the IHRA Drag Racing Series, the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour comprises the Good Vibrations Top Sportsman, Good Vibrations Top Dragster, Super Stock, Stock, Quick Rod, Super Rod and Hot Rod, which compete for both Pro-Am and World Championships within the series. These teams and...