After a pair of track dates in Texas to start Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0 (Race Week), competitors got a full day of driving action to roll into Louisiana for racing at State Capitol Raceway in Port Allen on Wednesday morning / afternoon.

The majority of the incoming class leaders held their top spots, but a few notable names are out of competition, or lost their class leads.

The fifth anniversary of Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0 (Race Week) got underway Pine Valley Raceway in Lufkin, Texas for day one with 231 participants. Stop two would be the all-concrete Texas Motorplex.

Could any of the competitors take advantage of all that concrete, and blast to a better time than what they produced on Sunday night?

With ten years of solid history of Rocky Mountain Race Week (RMRW) in the books, the second helping, Race Week or RMRW 2.0, recently got underway for its fifth year in Texas.

Focused on tracks in Texas and Louisiana, the Motion Raceworks Race Week Presented by Sick the Magazine had several familiar names on the registered list, which will lead to some interesting battles for class titles.

Bob Ruppel's drag-and-drive experience was solidified on his Hot Rod Drag Week. "I'm a competitive person, so even when things are going wrong, I try to push through it all. When my second ever drag-and-drive event required a short block swap in a checkpoint parking lot 800 miles from home, and you're with like minded car people, anything seems possible."
What story will he tell from this year's Hot Rod Drag Week?

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.

It’s among the most gut wrenching things a car enthusiast can experience when your ride is stolen. Advancements in GPS tracking and theft deterrents have made a dent to bring the numbers down to an extent, but thousand of thefts still happen. And although a recent theft during a drag-and-drive event didn’t have a 100-percent happy ending, the car was recovered thanks to the efforts of the car community and social media at large.

Despite appearances that things are good on the surface, a racer’s mind can be a hamster wheel of thoughts both good and bad on their next run. In Colin Gee’s case, he started thinking about the 1983 Chevrolet Malibu station wagon he had finished in 2023, and his goals for the future.

The Stark family first joined the drag-and-drive community at the 2019 edition of Rocky Mountain Race Week, with father Tom Stark wielding the shifter handle in his ‘55 Chevy wagon stick shift entry. But just three later, son Blayne and daughter MaCayla moved into the driver’s seat.

There are several proven models and chassis that have been successful over time in drag-and-drive competition. But we also see some unique examples. From station wagons to milk trucks, Triumphs to T-bucket roadsters, we’ve seen a lot. But this could be the only limousine we’ve seen participate in a drag-and-drive.

With the increase in the number of drag-and-drive events in the last three years, it’s becoming more commonplace to see competitors at more than one event during a calendar year. There are several that have made their mark in the drag-and-drive world, and one of the top ones is Bryant Goldstone.

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.

Six days of driving and racing reached the ultimate conclusion last night, as the tenth running of Rocky Mountain Race Week Presented by Sick the Magazine hit the finish line at Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma.

After five days of racing and driving, Rocky Mountain Race Week 1.0 has one final drive today, back to where it all started, Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma for a packed final day of crowning winners and racing action.

The drag-and-drive community can get a harsh reminder that just surviving the week is the top task. Then again, Rocky Mountain Race Week 1.0 is still seeing some competitors clocking insane times, and the index classes continue to be close battle grounds.

To kick off the 2024 Rocky Mountain Race Week, Tulsa Raceway Park hosted 314 vehicles and 12 motorcycles on Sunday. With racing activities completed that evening, the Monday ‘workload’ would be who could survive 350-ish miles from Oklahoma to Texas to stage up on Tuesday for day two of racing, and day three of the week.

We can commonly read about drag-and-drive competitors at the side of the road battling issues; that's par for the course. Unfortunately, we occasionally hear about crashes on the road as well, and one impacted this week's Rocky Mountain Race Week event.

The second major drag-and-drive to hit the scene, Rocky Mountain Race Week, celebrates its tenth year of holding at least one event each year in 2024. The first of two to be held this year, RMRW 1.0 Presented by Sick the Magazine features new tracks, as well as some new competitors, and kicked off Sunday June 23rd.

Both Rocky Mountain Race Week and Sick the Mag event rules for the Rowdy Radial class are simple: 235 sized tire (26-inches tall and 8.5-inches in width), and an eighth-mile distance format. No suspension requirements, no weight minimum, run what ya brung and hope you brought enough. But with increased performances and shrinking fields at some events, is it time for an updated ruleset?

In its regular street trim, you wouldn’t think twice about this Cadillac CTS-V. But the twin-turbo stick shift ride has already established a solid first drag-and-drive showing with very quick potential.

“With the space we have now (at Moore Race Chassis), advancing the business is the top of our priority list. The opportunity is too great to pass up.”