The International Hot Rod Association is pleased to welcome the BHRA Motorsports Facility in The Bahamas and its organizational group the Bahamas Hot Rod Association to the IHRA member track family.

Located on the southwestern section of Queen’s Elizabeth Sports Centre in The Bahamas, the multi-million dollar drag racing facility will host a soft opening on the island’s Discovery Day Holiday weekend in October with a full opening slated for the 2014 season.

The International Hot Rod Association is pleased to welcome Green Cove Dragway, located just outside of Jacksonville, Florida, to the IHRA member track family.

Owned and operated by Pete Scalzo of the Motorsports Management Group, Green Cove Dragway is slated to open sometime later this year and will begin full operation in 2014. Green Cove Dragway, which is located 40 miles south of Jacksonville, will be an 1/8 mile facility located on the grounds of a business park and will give IHRA a much needed presence in northern Florida. Green Cove Dragway is the sixth track from the state of Florida to join the IHRA.

Welcome back to the IHRA, Mark Miles.

After a few years off from IHRA competition, Flintstone, Georgia’s Miles has returned in a big way in 2013, winning four times in five finals including his second win in a row at the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL doubleheader at Darlington Dragway over the weekend.

Miles, who won Quick Rod at Carolina Dragway one week prior, repeated a trip to the winner’s circle with a win over Danny Waters Jr. for his fourth win of the season. Miles leads both the Quick Rod and Super Rod standings in Division 2.

Jeff Longhany also had a strong showing at the South Carolina track, winning Stock and finishing runner-up in Super Stock. Other winners during the Division 2 doubleheader were Jim Cairnes and Stacy Hall (Top Sportsman), Mandy Teets-Seal and Steve Hester (Top Dragster), Brian Seate and Michael Crumpler (Super Stock), B.J. Bianchi and Longhany (Stock), Miles and John Dustin (Quick Rod), Chris Lewis and Ernie Knight (Super Rod) and Russell Penny and Nick Womack (Hot Rod).

Junior Dragster winners were Brittney Dial and Taylor Bouldrey (Master), Dylan Blanton and Mia Schultz (Advanced) and Tyler Duff and Wallace Wilson (Beginner).

Championships, checks, cars and competition – the 2013 IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals at Memphis International Raceway has a little something for everyone.

From 10 drivers walking away as newly minted IHRA World Champions, to the return of Top Fuel legend Clay Millican to the IHRA quarter-mile, the IHRA Summit World Finals is shaping up to be one of the biggest events in IHRA history and it will all take place October 11-12 at Memphis International Raceway in Millington, Tennessee.

“Memphis International Raceway is a world-class facility and we are proud to have them as our host track for the World Finals,” said Aaron Polburn, President of IHRA Motorsports. “When you combine the incredible sportsman championships with a Nitro Jam that includes Clay (Millican), Grave Digger and our incredible nitro line, you have a show that may just be one of our biggest yet. We are so excited to crown our world champions on a stage worthy of their accomplishments, in front of a huge crowd all on the biggest night in IHRA racing. I can’t wait.”

After two weather-forced postponements and another close call with rain this time around, the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL doubleheader at Carolina Dragway was finally completed over the weekend.

For the most part the weekend was dominated by drivers not in contention for the Division 2 Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour podium, with only Super Stock points leader and current runner-up Michael Crumpler and Robbie Draughon making any real dents out of the Heat Wave Division with a win and a runner-up finish respectively.

Other winners from the doubleheader at Carolina Dragway were Rube Allman and Calvin Snow (Top Sportsman), Michael White and Jim Onda (Top Dragster), Jake Sealey and Michael Crumpler (Super Stock), Kevin Riner and Ricky Pennington (Stock), Cameron Manuel and Mark Miles (Quick Rod), Matt Tankersley and Tracy Barnes (Super Rod) and Joseph Bagwell and Brian Crumpler (Hot Rod). Winner in the Good Vibrations Junior Dragster classes were Paul Charett and Dawson Pauley (Master), Gage Burch and Carlie Dorn (Advanced) and Wallace Wilson (Beginner).

With the postponement of the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour presented by AMSOIL event at Farmington Dragway to the weekend of September 20-22, the IHRA would like to clarify that the race is still open to all competitors.

The first true doubleheader in Division 9 history will be open to all racers who wish to participate on the new date of September 20-22. Racers who were in attendance and entered in race one (Saturday) that can’t or choose to not return to the rescheduled date will be issued a voucher upon request from Donna Harper in our corporate office for use at the Farmington event in 2014. In addition, if you entered in race one and you will not be returning, however you need both race claims in order to meet minimum claims necessary for season-ending awards, please contact Donna Harper as well. 

See page 108 of the IHRA Rulebook under “Rescheduled Events” for further information.

The new Farmington date will feature two separate races Saturday and Sunday. For a complete schedule of events check back with www.ihra.com and for additional questions contact the IHRA office at (419) 663-6666.

His numbers speak for themselves – six IHRA Top Fuel world championships, 52 national event wins and two world records.

And now the most decorated man in the history of the International Hot Rod Association will be making his triumphant return at his home track at Memphis International Raceway for the IHRA Summit Racing Equipment World Finals October 11-12 in Tennessee.

Millican will be making his very first start in IHRA Top Fuel competition in more than five years and fans will be in for a treat as one of the greatest Top Fuel rivalries in drag racing history will be reborn as Millican takes on Bruce Litton in a battle of the World Champions during the IHRA Nitro Jam season finale October 11-12 at MIR.

In the first Summit Team Finals action of the year Castrol Raceway swept the podium in the Division 6 Border Bandits team competition at the Edmonton, Alberta track, while three drivers from three very different parts of the country punched their tickets to Memphis in October for the Summit SuperSeries championship runoff.

Castrol Raceway Team C took the team crown with 16 points, holding off Castrol Raceway Team D by just one point. Castrol Raceway Team B was third with 13 points, followed by Castrol Raceway Team A with 12 points and Northern Lights Team A with 11 points. The rest of the top 10 included teams from Northern Lights Raceway, Calgary Drag Racing Association, Hi-Line Dragstrip and Eagle Motorplex.

In the Summit SuperSeries runoff drivers from three extreme ends of the northwest – Alaska, British Columbia and Montana – advanced to compete for the Summit SuperSeries World Championship at the Summit World Finals at Memphis International Raceway in October.

It is that time of year again as the best bracket racers in the world do battle at racetracks across the nation in the International Hot Rod Association’s thrilling Summit Racing Equipment Team Finals presented by AMSOIL.

The Summit Team Finals allows IHRA member tracks to send teams made up of their best drivers from the 2013 racing season to race for team and individual championships at their local Team Finals event. Also at IHRA Team Finals events, the top racers from each track’s Summit SuperSeries program in Top, Mod and Junior Dragster will runoff for the right to go to Memphis International Raceway to compete at the Summit World Finals in October.