Norwalk, OH – With The Fling Bracket Race Series and Summit Motorsports Park partnering to present the Summit Racing Equipment Fling at Norwalk presented by Total Seal, competitors can be confident they will be taking part in a profitable and personally rewarding race.

The inaugural single-entry event is set for Aug. 27-31, 2025 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio, and there are five chances to win. That includes an incredible $50,000 to win on Strange Friday and ATI Performance Products Saturday, $30,000 to win on Function Enterprises Inc. Sunday, a free Coltrin Door & Moulding $5,000 to win Shootout on OEM Combustion Services Wednesday and a $20,000 to win Advanced Product Design Thursday Warm-Up.

Also featured are the Laris Motorsports Insurance No Box 32 Daily Bonus of $1,000 on Thursday and Sunday and $2,000 on Friday and Saturday, the Robco Residential $10,000 Points Chase and racer appreciation giveaways.

Pre-entry will begin June 4, 2025, and because of the enthusiasm surrounding the event, competitors are encouraged to secure their spot early. Continue reading →

Benson, NC — The final Wiseco Performance Products $50,000 day at the Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at GALOT Motorsports Park saw nearly 400 entries chase down the last remaining Fling hardware and big check of the week.

Dustin Smiley, Howard Westbury, Zac Fulcher, AJ Currie, Jeff Taylor, Mikey Bloomfield Jr., Ryan Barnes, Jeff Dobbins II, and William Roberts duked it out at nine cars where Smiley and Currie were separated by .003 on the tree with Smiley taking the win with a dead-on nine. Westbury fouled out to Fulcher, while Taylor took .005 to be dead-on two over Dobbins. Bloomfield was the lesser of the two breakouts against Roberts, while Barnes had the bye.

A thunderstorm and heavy rains washed out the remainder of eliminations on Saturday and the remaining three rounds took place Sunday morning. In the first pair, Bloomfield turned it .003 red to advance Barnes, while Smiley knocked out Taylor after putting together .011 total. Fulcher took a free ride to three cars on his solo shot with a .016 bulb. Continue reading →

Benson, NC — Silver State Refrigeration presented day number four at the Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at GALOT Motorsports Park where 395 racers staged up for a shot at another $50,000 payday.

Tommy Plott, Jeff Verdi, Austin Logan, Cory Gulitti, Gary Williams, Kyle Cultrera, Cameron Manuel, Jayden Lawler, Jeffrey Dobbins II, and Jeff Serra. Verdi was .010 total to eliminate Plott, while Logan was .002 total to break Gulitti’s momentum. Williams let go .014 on the bye run. On the dragster side Manuel was .013 and dead-on four for the win over Cultrera, and Dobbins was .012 and four thousandths above the dial to advance past Lawler. Serra drilled the tree with a .005 on his solo trip down the track.

In the quarterfinals, Dobbins got to the stripe first by five thousandths to run dead-on one over Verdi, while Logan had the better end of the double breakout against Williams. During the last pair, Serra had the advantage with a .005 but got behind five thousandths to bow out against Manuel.

Logan ran it down to be three-thousandths under the dial in his bye run, while Dobbins was .002 taking .007 at the stripe to be one above to knock out Manuel. Continue reading →

Benson, NC — JEGS Performance Thursday fired up the first of three $50,000 main events at the Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at GALOT Motorsports Park where 365 racers took their shot at parking in the Fling winners circle at the end of the night.

At nine cars Gary Williams, Perry Reynolds, Robert DiMino, Jeff Serra, Jason Lynch, TJ Harper, Cory Gulitti, Kellan Farmer, Bobby Murphy III remained. Two thousandths separated Williams and Reynolds on the starting line with Williams taking .003 to run dead-on the dial with a zero. DiMino got to the stripe by .002 to run dead-on four for the win over Serra, while Lynch was .001 and a hundredth above the dial to move past Harper. Gulitti put together .013 total over Farmer, and Murphy was .005 on the tree during his bye run.

Gulitti was .013 and took .005 to knock out Williams in the first pair of the quarterfinals, while Murphy’s .017 package eliminated DiMino. Lynch took the green for his single. In the semifinals, Gulitti took the green on his solo run, while Murphy was .010 and ran dead-on with a seven over Lynch to advance. Continue reading →

Benson, NC — Advanced Product Design $15,000 Warm-Up Wednesday at the Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at GALOT Motorsports Park saw 330 entries stage up for the first round.

Prior to eliminations, Cory Gulitti and Austin Thompson squared off in the RAD Torque Systems $20,000 Shootout final round. Thompson was .017 and dead-on three over Gulitti to complete a string of great runs. Gulitti turned it just .001 red in his third final round appearance at the Flings within the same month. He won the dragster shootout and had a runner-up finish in the 60K at the Spring Fling Million in Las Vegas a few weeks prior.

At 11 cars Scott Albrecht, Jeff Serra, David Lowe, Jackson Worters, Bob Engelman, Noah Lewis, Austin Thompson, Jeff Taylor, Clayton Roberts, and Matt Dadas in two entries remained.

In the quarterfinals Serra was perfect on the tree and .014 above the dial for the win to the .016 bulb of Worters, while Lowe was dead-on two getting to the finish line first by .002 against Albrecht. Engleman put together .011 total to advance past Noah Lewis. Continue reading →

Benson, NC — The Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by OPTIMA Batteries at GALOT Motorsports Park fired up with Rob’s Auto Tuesday Test and Tune with the RAD Torque Systems $20,000 Shootout.

The 32-car field was made up of 16 door cars and 16 dragsters. In the quarterfinals, Pete D’Agnolo, Jeff Verdi, Cory Gulitti, and Richard Alford Jr. met on the door car side with Austin Thompson, Shane Thompson, Jeffrey Dobbins Jr., and Robbie Martell on the dragster side. Verdi bowed out to D’Agnolo by way of a double breakout, while Gulitti put together .007 total to eliminate Alford Jr. Austin Thompson was .004 for the win against Shane Thompson, and Dobbins II advanced past Martell on the double breakout.

Gulitti put it dead-on five to the .011 and five thousandths under of D’Agnolo, with Austin Thompson putting together .015 total to the .017 light of Dobbins. It would be his third Fling final round appearance within the month of April after winning the dragster shootout and a runner-up in the 60K at the Las Vegas Spring Fling Million. Continue reading →

Benson, NC — On the heels of a record-breaking car count in the Spring Fling Million, the Fling Team travels to the east coast to host the Strange Engineering Spring Fling presented by OPTIMA batteries. This original ‘Spring Fling’ was the first event organized by business partners Peter Biondo and the late Kyle Seipel back in 2010. The event was moved from Bristol Dragway to the newly renovated Galot Motorsports Park in 2017 and has been there since.

Hundreds of racers from all across the country are expected to arrive at what has become a favorite track to many. The action-packed week will kick off with Rob’s Auto and Collision Test and Tune Tuesday giving racers the opportunity to get dialed-in. Tuesday will also feature the RAD Torque Systems $20,000 Shootout.

The racing action continues on Advanced Product Design $15,000 Wednesday and ramps up even more on JEGS Performance Thursday with the winner set to walk away with $50,000. Silver State Refrigeration Friday will crown another $50,000 champion, with Wiseco Performance Products offering another $50,000 event on Saturday. “In 2010, Kyle and I chose our tagline to be ‘Race It. Experience It,” said Flings promoter Peter Biondo. “Putting bracket racers on the big stage was our goal, but more importantly, creating an experience that hopefully they will remember for years to come.” Continue reading →

Bristol, TN — The final day at the 15th anniversary RAD Torque Systems Fall Fling 500K presented by OPTIMA Batteries at Bristol Dragway would see the last big check of the weekend awarded and determine the overall event Fuel Factory Points Champion on ATI Performance/JEGS Performance $100,000 Sunday.

The five drivers remaining on the ladder included Ray Miller III, Eric Thomas, Tyler Mosley, Cameron Manuel, and Dylan Witherow. Miller was five thousandths behind at the hit but tightened it up to just .001 at the big end for the win over the ‘67 Camaro of Thomas. In the following pair, Mosley had the starting line advantage with a .002 bulb and put together .014 total to move past Manuel. On the bye, Witherow let go .016 and coasted down towards the memorial 1.39 dial-in lit up on the scoreboard.

In the semifinals, Miller and Witherow were .009 a pair with Witherow running the ‘98 S-10 dead-on with a zero for a nine package to knock out former Fall Fling $100K winner Miller in his ‘23 NexGen dragster. Mosley staged up on the single for a hit at the tree and let go .004 to earn lane choice in the final round. Continue reading →

Bristol, TN — After racers patiently waited 2 ½ days for the weather to pass, the long-awaited 15th Anniversary $500,000 main event finally arrived. The single entry format would be the great equalizer between the 419 individual racers from all across the country for the richest paying Fling event of the year.

The 20 drivers at the split included David Olinger, Steve Helton, Brian Martel, Ken Sweo, Billy Leber, Seth Street, Jared Pennington, James W. Holmes, Michael Carpenter, Jack Ostrowski, Jackson Worters, Hunter Patton, Cory Gulitti, Paul Mosley, Cameron Manuel, Tonya Pruett, Lester Adkins, Brandon Lane, Corey Manuel, and Jake Clayton.

At round seven Carpenter used a substantial starting line advantage to move past Olinger, while Pennington wheeled ‘Big Red’ to round eight over Leber after letting go .019 ahead at the hit. Ostrowski and Mosley were separated by just .003 on the tree with Mosley getting to the finish line first by .005 to break out by one-thousandth while Ostrowski put it dead-on his 4.52 dial with a seven. Clayton had .010 in his pocket off the starting line and ran .011 over for the win against Pruett. 2019 500K winner Patton was .006 to the .013 of Lane but broke out by four-thousands to end his chances of a repeat. Martel was red and dead-on eight in his bye run. Continue reading →

Bristol, TN — Day two at the RAD Torque Systems Fall Fling 500K presented by OPTIMA Batteries would see the start of eliminations for Advanced Product Design $50,000 Wednesday on the mountain at Bristol Dragway. Despite the best efforts of the track crew to provide a safe racing surface, intermittent showers disrupted racing activity.

“We have almost 400 racers on the grounds that traveled from all parts of the country to get here. We have the track for all week (and Sunday if needed),” said promoter Peter Biondo. “The Bristol staff, our staff, and myself are one-hundred percent committed to make it happen for our racers, and I am confident we will. When the heavy rain comes through, we ask for your patience to hang in there with us. We will add in some fun stuff if we get long hours of down time.”

In the evening, several practice tree races and poker games were contested in a tower suite for all on property. In race one, Randy Biddle Jr. was off the bottom bulb to defeat Andy Morris, while race two saw Vicky Johnson knock out Mike Miller. In the third race, Emily Biondo used two perfect lights during eliminations and ultimately took the final round win over Vance Houston. Continue reading →