MARTIN, Mich. — The International Hot Rod Rod Association (IHRA) Summit Sportsman National Championship returned to action with a double-event weekend and races at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Mich. and Farmington Dragway in Mocksville, N.C.

Mark Nowicki and Mark Howard earned weekend sweeps in Super Stock and Stock, while Justen Moser became a third-generation IHRA winner in Super Rod to highlight the Michigan action.

MOCKSVILLE, N.C. - After two events were postponed by weather, the IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship resumed June 9-11, 2017 with the first double-event weekend of the season.  Sportsman racers competed at Farmington Dragway in Mocksville, N.C., and US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Mich. 

In cased you missed it on our Facebook Page, we have highlighted the top 5 IHRA Summit Sportsman National Champioship competitors in each class so far in the series. The Summit Sportsman National Championship is a 30 race series; and the National Champion will be determined using points claims from the best 7 of the first 10 events the racer attends.

One of the worst natural disasters in American history couldn’t keep James McPherson Jr. from the race track.

The longtime resident of New Orleans was one of the victims when the Category 5 Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. The storm surge caused multiple failures of the levees holding back Lake Pontchartrain, and left a huge portion of the city underwater. McPherson’s house was among the areas flooded, and he remembers Katrina as leaving behind 13 feet of water and a desolate area in its aftermath.

A customer comes into the shop and asks, “How much?” Mike replies, “I don’t know; I guess $500 will do.” Silence as the customer digests what he’s heard. “I got all the nuts and acorns out of it – left one in there so you’d know it was there,” Mike Boyles, 71, said to the customer that brought his vehicle into Boyles Automotive in King, N.C. just north of Winston-Salem.

Due to inclement weather, the International Hot Rod Association and Maryland International Raceway have postponed the May 5-7 IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship event until the weekend of July 14-16 due to a washout predicted for Friday and unstable weather projections through the rest of the weekend.

This weekend the IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship series will feature two double race weekends as the 15-stop series comes to US 131 Motorsports Park and Farmington Dragway this weekend.  This is one of just two weekends this season that the Summit Sportsman National Championship will feature doube-double race weekends. 

IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship current points standings.

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WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. (April 7, 2017) — Encore presentations of ESPN3 broadcasts of the 2017 IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship races are now available on IHRA.com.

Just click on “2017 EVENT RESULTS button” on the IHRA homepage you will be able to view race video, results and a photo gallery from earlier events.

Xtreme Raceway Park in the metropolitan Dallas area has signed a multi-year sanctioning agreement with the International Hot Rod Association.

Scheduled to open October 1, the 90-acre complex in Ferris, Texas will feature an 1/8-mile, all-concrete track with concrete walls from the burnout box to the end of the track. There will be five suites, six staging lanes, 400 feet long, and a 200-feet sand safety pit.