May 9, 2008

Summit Racing Equipment is once again offering a great fringe benefit just for being one of our guests. Every time somebody comes out to the track and signs up for a Summit Racing Equipment catalog, they’re entered into a drawing. The same thing happens when someone signs up for our mailing list. The drawing winner receives a $100 gift certificate from Summit Racing Equipment. Not a bad deal for just showing up! April’s monthly winner is Troy Wotring from LeRoy, Ohio. Congratulations Troy! Be sure to stop by the Guest Services building and sign up for this very cool prize.

May 9, 2008

Bring your friends, bring your cars, and bring your cameras! The ACDelco High School Nationals presented by Amalie Motor oil is happening tomorrow morning, and we’re looking forward to seeing you. The race winner is going home with a $10,000.00 scholarship to the University of Northwestern Ohio. Your parents will love that (continued)

May 8, 2008

We received this letter from one of our racers. It’s very satisfying to know that our efforts are appreciated. We thought we would pass this along to our readers, and acknowledge that it did, in fact, make our day, Linda! And, thanks to the gentleman in the NHRA shirt. (continued)

May 7, 2008

Have a Blast on B'laster!   PB B’laster (PB-16), the flagship and namesake of Blaster Chemical Company is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a national sweepstakes promotion.  Grand prize is a 1957 Ford T-Bird Convertible, plus hundreds of other prizes. The lucky winner of the 1957 T-Bird will have a literal Blast on (contest)

May 7, 2008

The best of the NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster and Top Alcohol Funny Car field will make their first assault on the Summit Motorsports Park quarter mile for 2008 at the 2^nd Annual B’laster PB50 Cavalcade of Stars presented by Budweiser, next weekend, May 16-18. Last year, Frank Manzo in Funny Car and Bill Reichert in Dragster (continued)

MAy 6, 2008

It’s time for the high school crowd to get wound up for this weekend’s 20^th Annual ACDelco High School Nationals presented by Amalie Motor Oil! This year’s spectacular event is by far the biggest, best, richest, and most diverse of any High School Nationals in the long history of the annual gathering. Of course, one of the staples (continued)

May 5, 2008

Did you see that? The NHRA national race in St. Louis yesterday was an exercise in surprises. Tim Wilkerson, one of the nicest guys in drag racing, started the race from the pole as low qualifier for the event in Nitro Funny Car. He went on to win the race with a string of 4.82 second passes that was only broken in the final round in his (continued)

Cinco de Mayo, 2008

Every once in a while, no matter how great our plans are, things just don’t work out the way we want them to. Such is the case with one of our advertised features for the 2008 season. We had planned to have the world’s only jet powered school bus at the B’laster Cavalcade of Stars presented by Budweiser, and at PINKS: All Out (continued)

May 2, 2008

NHRA POWERade Pro Stock Car racers will soon head to Summit Motorsports Park at Norwalk, Ohio, for a chance to win $50,000 at the 2008 K&N Horsepower Challenge Race. Racers are not the only ones that can win. You can enter the sweepstakes for a chance to attend the race courtesy of K&N and a chance to win the (continued)

May 2, 2008

The devil is in the details. For Bill Bader, the devil was a newly paved area of asphalt from the 660-foot cone to approximately 725 feet. His newly resurfaced race track, Summit Motorsports Park, in Norwalk, Ohio, looked amazing to the naked eye, but there was a “soft spot” of about 125 feet that just wasn’t right. There were a couple of recommendations from the engineering team, but ultimately (continued)