A Close Final Between Two Street Race Entries at LS Fest, A Former Dial-Your-Own Winner Makes a Final in An 8-Second FE Ford, and Adam Dorey Gets His Malibu Back on the Road for Race Week
As we roll into the last part of summer, and the last third of the drag-and-drive season, we’re also seeing several competitors seeing success at standalone events.
We have a trio of big drag-and-drive events coming next week, but here's a few stories from the drag-and-drive community last week.
The State of Street Race and Limited Street - How Close Things Get When Battling in the 8.50 Ranks
There are so many things you can focus on as part of a drag-and-drive, and one that I’m diving into today is the tight competition that comes with the Hot Rod Drag Week Street Race class, as well as the Rocky Mountain Race Week Limited Street class, Sick Week and Sick Summer’s 275 Street Race and Sick Street Race classes, and the Midwest Drags Street Race classes.
Chasing Perfection – Clocking the Perfect Pass in Hot Rod Drag Week, Rocky Mountain Race Week, Sick Week and Sick Summer 8.50-Second Limited Classes
Although Hot Rod Drag Week didn’t start out with the intention of making their Street Race classes into an index-based competition, that’s become the norm. Rocky Mountain Race Week and Sick Week-Sick Summer followed suit, and the competition to run that 8.500 perfect pass is heating up.
Former Sick Summer Class Winner Recovers From Crash to Build New Ride – Plans to Attend One Guy’s Garage Drag Weekend Event in September
One year ago, Travis Larson was riding high after attending the inaugural Sick Summer; compiling an 8.56 average to secure the Street Race 275 class win. But just three months later at a race during Labor Day weekend 2023, things took a turn for the worse.
For the Adventure – How Jordan Boudreaux’s Sick Week Was Saved on Day One by a Fellow Competitor and an Unlikely Solution
This week’s “For the Adventure – Stories from the Road” comes from Dylan Peacock, co-pilot on Jordan Boudreaux’s 2002 Ford Mustang that competes on Sick Week’s 275 Street Race class. Sidelined on day one of Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive 2022, Dylan and Jordan thought their week was over, until fellow competitor Eric Cowell got them back on track with an unusual fix.
This Turbocharged 240 Wants a Shot at the Street Race Title at Sick Summer - Gets Tuned Up with a Victory at Muncie Dragway’s Heads Up Event
“The Hole Shot Media Heads Up event idea was to get the weekend highway racers out to the track and in a safer environment. I went in just wanting to use it really for a test session to get ready for Sick Summer. I made a handful of changes to the car over the winter, and really hadn't been able to get some solid A-to-B passes in.”
Trading Places – An 8-Second Plan B Build for Sick Week 2024 Takes Shape
“We’re building this on our YouTube channel as a basic build that anybody can follow along and replicate in their own garage with some buddies.”