Mike Salinas has showed signs of greatness in his Top Fuel career but now he’s showing he’s the best driver in the NHRA Camping World Drag Series.

Salinas won for the fourth time this season when he took the victory at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals Sunday in Norwalk, Ohio and moved into the season points lead.

Robert Hight has won a lot of races. He has won at a lot of different racetracks.

But the one blemish on an otherwise impressive resume that has spanned 57 victories over 17 years has been a win at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio. That is, until Sunday.

In boxing, a trilogy fight is oftentimes considered the pinnacle of the sport.

Fighters get to know each other intimately over the course of multiple engagements. They learn each other’s tendencies, strengths and weaknesses. And, somehow, a trilogy seems particularly tidy.

Angelle Sampey knows how to win.

Sampey is a three-time Pro Stock Motorcycle world champion – 2000-2002 and she found her way back to the winner’s circle Sunday.

The man with whom many referred to as the PT Barnum of drag racing has passed away.

Mike Salinas won for the first time at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, taking over the Top Fuel points lead on Sunday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals with his fourth victory of the 2022 season.
 
Robert Hight (Funny Car), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Angelle Sampey (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also won at the 10th of 22 races during the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season.

Every young racer just starting out in the world of motorsports dreams of one day being able to compete for a win on the biggest stage.

That was especially true for a young Mike McIntire Jr. who grew up watching his father, Mike Sr., make blistering passes and compete for wins at racetracks across the country. Mike Sr. cut his teeth racing nostaglia machines on various tours, making famous the now-recognizable orange and back “McAttack” moniker that his son now carries on his big show nitro Funny Car.

A different week – the same Erica Enders.

Enders’ drive for her fifth Pro Stock world championship keeps picking up steam.

Justin Ashley remembers it like it was yesterday. The taste of ice cream. The booming of fireworks high overhead. And the joy on his father’s face as he hoisted his first major trophy in NHRA competition.

The year was 2007 and Justin Ashley was just 12 years old, learning the ins and outs of the drag racing business for the very first time. But an inaugural trip to a track that had just switched sanctioning bodies to the National Hot Rod Association and was hosting its very first national event, that July afternoon in 2007 changed everything for Ashley and his outlook on the sport he would later come to love.

That afternoon, Ashley’s father, Mike Ashley, won his first of three NHRA victories in the Funny Car category, defeating Kenny Bernstein in the final at Summit Motorsports Park at the inaugural Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals.

Eddie Krawiec has quite the Pro Stock Motorcycle career, winning four Pro Stock Motorcycle world championships in 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2017 on a Harley-Davidson for Vance & Hines.

Krawiec has remained a perennial championship contender and now competing on a Suzuki for Vance & Hines he’s still in the mix.