This weekend the IHRA Summit Sportsman National Championship series will feature two double-race weekends as the 15-stop series comes to Memphis International Raceway and Empire Dragway this weekend.  This is the second of just two weekends this season that the Summit Sportsman National Championship will feature double-double race weekends.

The International Hot Rod Association Summit Team Finals will begin this weekend, Aug. 18-20, with the Division 6 (Border Bandits) at Northern Lights Raceway in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada.

Clyde Peake, born and raised in Columbia, S.C., is the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) chief starter.  He works primarily in IHRA Division 9-2 where his son, Josh, 37, is the Division director.  Clyde Peake, 66, also owns and operates his family business, Peake’s Auto and Tire in Columbia where he works about four and a half days a week.  The elder Peake has been an IHRA Race Official for more than 40 years, and while he is clearly the longest-tenured IHRA Official, he thinks of himself as just one of the guys. Below is a conversation with IHRA Chief Starter, Clyde Peake. 

Best Engineered winner interview with Mike Dunn at the Summit Sportsman Nat'l Championship at Maryland International Raceway.

Two-thirds of the way through the 2017 season and a trio of tight points battles that 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 the racer competes in.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 1, 2017) — Northern Motorsports and Neighbourhood Event Park in Bonfield, Ontario, Canada has signed a multi-year sanctioning agreement with the International Hot Rod Association.

PORT ALLEN, La. — With the forecast calling for heavy rains throughout the weekend, the International Hot Rod Association and State Capitol Raceway have moved their Summit Sportsman National Championship race from this weekend to Aug. 24-27.

St. Patrick’s Day is known for four-leaf clovers and other good-luck charms.

But it was March 18, the day after the holiday, which turned out to be the lucky day for the Weaver family from Lubbock, Texas.

Holley^® Performance, a major contingency partner of the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA), has been the undisputed leader in fuel systems for more than a century providing carburetors for IHRA, NHRA and NASCAR teams for more than four decades.  As the company website says, “No company knows fuel systems like Holley.”  Holley’s products include performance fuel pumps, intake manifolds and engine dress-up products for street performance, race and marine applications.

To the untrained Junior Dragster eye, a quick look at the JR Race Car website shows what appears to be 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 necessary parts and pieces.