Famoso Drag Strip provide the ‘hook and book’ with cool air and lots of wheelstands Wednesday night. But we need to get back to Nevada, so Death Week got back on the road for a full drive day on Thursday.

Day five of Death Week would start with a choice: visit the Sequoia National Forest, just peek into the surrounding park area, or head straight to Famoso Drag Strip?

Has there ever been a day of drag racing quite this epic? Much of the field (including event leader Jaosn Rousseau) drove through Sequoia National Park and then raced at the legendary Famoso Drag Strip. Check out the wild images below!

The second dedicated drive day for Death Week brought the tour close to shoreline once again, then through some narrow and twisting roads, and finally wide-open landscapes as day four was moved to the ‘completed’ side of the ledger.

Another drive day saw the teams of Death Week move north. While we have plenty of images from the ones we saw on the road, we know for a fact that dozens of racers are racking up additional miles playing tourists everywhere from Mooneyes to Disney. With visits today to Morro Rock and the James Dean Memorial, racers are now situated for a run through the Sequoia National Park before racing at Famoso Drag Strip from 5pm to 9pm.

With two days of driving and racing were in the books, Death Week rolled into Monday with the first of two dedicated drive days on the docket.

After two days of racing, day three of Death Week was purely about the driving. And what a drive it was along the beaches and through Los Angeles! Check out the photos below.

With day one in the books at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park, Death Week participants hit the road to California for day two at Barona Drag Strip.

Amazing images from day two of Death Week!

Day one of the epic trip known as Death Week was upon us, and the lanes were packed and ready to go by 9:30 a.m.

The craziest, most insane event in the history of street car drag racing is underway with Death Week taking to the track at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park.

The months of planning, testing and plotting a “let’s have fun” but “can we survive” strategy is about to be put to the test; it’s tech inspection and testing day for Death Week at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park.

When Geoff Dugapolski started out at Hot Rod Drag Week, it was in a 1978 Chevrolet Malibu, a “rusty junky” Malibu in his words. “After getting into Hot Rod Magazine’s coverage two times with my Malibu, I thought I should try something nicer.”

The third track on the epic adventure known as Death Week, is also the one with the most history – Famoso Drag Strip, and we will visit it on Wednesday, October 25th in the later afternoon / evening.

Since 2022, Sick Week has become the kick-off event for the drag-and-drive season, and can bring new builds, as well as existing rides with new updates, rolling into the event untested with fingers crossed hoping for the best.

“I am definitely looking forward to participating in Sick Week 2024. It will definitely be a little more stressful with six total cars from our team, but we are definitely looking forward to it!”

Death Week has taken on a “can you and your ride survive the ultimate drag-and-drive” focus. But there’s no shortage of proven rides coming to Death Week.

“Barona Drags just might be the place I’m looking forward to racing at the most. It’s a beautiful facility and just amazing with all the rocks and mountains around. We would love to have race fans spend their Sunday afternoon with us.” - Tom Bailey

2023 is seeing some drag-and-drive competitors in the no-prep scene, including Mikael Borggren and his Volvo station wagon, and David and Nick Diehl’s Mustangs.

An epic once-in-a-lifetime drag-and-drive like Death Week has lots of cool things that bring it one step above other drag-and-drive events. One of those will be limited edition t-shirts for each track day of the event!