{"id":104499,"date":"2026-08-03T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/photo-review-2026-norwalk-night-under-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:44:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:44:03","slug":"photo-review-2026-norwalk-night-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/photo-review-2026-norwalk-night-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Review: 2026 Norwalk Night Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The logo for the Cornwell Tools Night Under Fire includes the trademarked tagline \u201cThe Greatest Show in Drag Racing.\u201d The 49th version of Summit Motorsports Park\u2019s showcase event certainly lived up to that billing. A near-capacity crowd of nearly 40,000 fans was entertained by jets, wheelstanders, gassers, mountain motor pro stocks, and more. A new concept pitting a funny car against a top fueler was introduced, named \u201cThe King of Nitro,\u201d and was dominated by Ron Capps Motorsports. Don\u2019t forget the fireworks! Highlights of this fantastic event provided by Dave Oakes<\/p>\n

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\nRon Capps defeated teammate Maddie Gordon 3.843\/333.91 to Gordon\u2019s 3.733\/338.09 to win the first King of Nitro crown.<\/p>\n

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\nGordon took out low qualifier Doug Kalitta with a 3.723 best the top fuel field and faced Capps in the final.<\/p>\n

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\nJohn Force was honored as Grand Marshall of the event.<\/p>\n

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\nShawn Langdon took the opportunity to test. He ran a best of 3.83\/318.47.<\/p>\n

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\nIn an Ohio vs. Michigan battle in Top Alcohol Dragster, Cory Mihalek emerged victorious over JP Gutierrez.<\/p>\n

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\nRay Kasicki laid down this 660\u2032 smoker to win the Scott Rods burnout contest.<\/p>\n

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\nLocal racer Keith Castle took the R&R Auto Body top sportsman Invitational over Ronnie Proctor.<\/p>\n

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\nDoug Kalitta was low qualifier in Top Fuel at 3.757.<\/p>\n

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\nThe \u201cKing\u201d is crowned!<\/p>\n

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\nThe Mountain Motor Pro Stocks ran for a $100,000 purse. Alan Drinkwater defeated John DeFlorian on a holeshot in the final.<\/p>\n

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\nHayden Proffitt\u2019s twin-engine jet truck put a hurt on the big wall.<\/p>\n

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\nAs always, the night concluded with a fabulous fireworks display.<\/p>\n

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The logo for the Cornwell Tools Night Under Fire includes the trademarked tagline \u201cThe Greatest Show in Drag Racing.\u201d The 49th version of Summit Motorsports Park\u2019s showcase event certainly lived up to that billing. A near-capacity crowd of nearly 40,000 fans was entertained by jets, wheelstanders, gassers, mountain motor pro stocks, and more. A new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}