Final round-by-round results from the Fourth annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, the 13th of 23 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series:

Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the first national event staged at the track formerly known as Norwalk Raceway Park. A lot has changed about the palatial house of speed located to the southwest of Cleveland, Ohio, even its name.

Now branded as Summit Raceway Park, the facility operates under  the NHRA sanction and represents one of the more successful events on the 23-race Full Throttle tour.

Back in the 1981, the Bader family, fronted by Bill Bader Sr., used a rain plagued IHRA event as a springboard for the future; a stepping stone to it's current prominence as a premier facility in the drag racing world.

However, there are those who remember the time the drag strip, carved out of a cornfield, was afforded its first chance to host a national event. The 1981 IHRA World Nationals was one of those events which left its participants with memories.

Allen Johnson taunted Greg Anderson and because of that, Mike Edwards paid the price in the final of the K&N Horsepower Challenge, a race-within-a-race during the NHRA Summit Nationals.

Two years earlier Johnson strapped a perfect .000 reaction time on Anderson to claim the $60,000 winning purse. At the time, Anderson was the top dog in the Pro Stock class.

Fast forward to Saturday afternoon at Summit Raceway Park in Norwalk, Ohio.

Anderson worked his way through the eight-car field from the second seed only to meet the top ranked Edwards for the prize. He beat Edwards on a hole shot, recording a 6.685, 206.23 pass to secure the victory.

Larry Dixon is back in the groove and if his history this season stays true to form; his No. 1 qualifying spot is a strong indicator he'll spend some time Sunday celebrating a victory.

Dixon was happily recounting the days events when he was reminded he has yet to lose from the No. 1 qualifying spot in 2010.

“Thanks for bringing that up,” responded Dixon with a laugh. “The pressure is on.”

The pressure to perform to a gold standard has been hovering over Dixon ever since he left Don Prudhomme Racing to become the driver of the Al-Anabi dragster in 2009.

It was a night for all of Canada as local favorite Tim Boychuk won his first Nitro Jam event at Castrol Raceway in front of thousands of fans who packed every inch of the Edmonton facility to witness the SMS/Komatsu “Night of Fire” at the River Cree Resort and Casino Rocky Mountain Nitro Jam Nationals presented by MOPAR and E3 Spark Plugs.

Boychuk claimed his first Nitro Jam win at his home track in the new Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car category, overshadowing the incredible victories by fan favorites Bobby Lagana (Top Fuel) and 21-year-old Ashley Bart (Pro Fuel) Saturday night at Castrol Raceway.

“What an incredible weekend. To win in front of these incredible fans and right here in my backyard is unbelievable. Hopefully we can go out and add another Ironman or two tomorrow,” Boychuk said.

Veteran drag racer Rickie Smith beat three-time NHRA Get Screened America Pro Mod Drag Racing Series winner and current points leader Von Smith in the first round of competition Saturday at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals.

All of Friday’s qualifying leaders remained atop their respective categories as Larry Dixon, Ashley Force Hood, Jeg Coughlin and Steve Johnson will lead their divisions into Sunday’s 11 a.m. eliminations at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series event.

Dixon’s track record performance of 3.780 at 320.43 in his Al-Anabi Racing dragster gave him his fourth No. 1 position of the season and 44th of his career in Top Fuel. He will face Troy Buff in the first round.

Jeg Coughlin Jr. has been racing long enough to know Mother Nature is the biggest factor in drag racing. Sunday, the No. 1 Pro Stock qualifier at the NHRA Summit Nationals, figures she is going to have a hand in Sunday’s eliminations.

“Weather could really play a role in this race tomorrow,” Coughlin said. “We ran that 6.59 Friday night in what is usually the hero session, but this morning when we had that cloud cover we saw plenty of cars running good numbers. If we get that again tomorrow morning it could be really interesting.”

Ashley Force Hood learned on Saturday that you cannot change fate and for her this means a first round match against her 14-time Funny Car champion father John Force in Sunday’s final eliminations at the NHRA Summit Nationals.

Force Hood’s provisional pole survived a hot day of qualifying and two torrential downpours which brought an end to the incomplete final round.

“I was in my Mustang belted up and ready to go and then the rain just started pouring,” Force Hood explained. “It surprised all of us. I think the locals all knew because someone said the stands cleared out before it started raining really hard. We were going to try and make another really strong run. In the heat I don’t think we would have been trying to improve too much on our time.”

Force Hood’s Friday night time of 4.032 seconds held up as the top elapsed time.