Although she comes from a family with a long history of not only racing, but also some quick Ford Mustangs, JoAnna Iacobelli Reid has never done a drag and drive event before 2023.

She changed that status by jumping into the second running of Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive, with husband Bryan joining her as co-pilot in her 8-second supercharged 2018 Mustang.

And although she’s traded her helmet to work at events recently, JoAnna and Bryan have plans to jump back into a competitor spot at this summer’s Sick Michigan Miles Presented by Driven Racing Oil, right in the Reid’s home state.

Doing a drag and drive event in the home state of Sick the Magazine marks not only the first time a major event has been held solely in the state of Michigan, but also a first time for a couple additional classes.

Sick Michigan Miles Presented by Driven Racing Oil, scheduled for August 10th through the 17th, 2025, will feature Junior Street and Motorcycle classes for the first time at a Sick the Mag event!

This event is one of many that was discussed for the popular ‘one-off’ event structure that Tom Bailey first tried at Death Week on the west coast in 2023. “The thing I’ve preached about a drag and drive event is about the adventure,” Tom said. “Your main goals should be surviving the week and creating some awesome memories.”

One big element about Sick Michigan Miles Presented by Driven Racing Oil, is adding the Junior Street and Motorcycle classes into the program. “A bunch of enthusiasts have asked me about the possibility of adding those two classes to a Sick event,” said Tom. “After weighing our options, we’re excited about them being a part of Michigan Miles.”

We’re on the final week before our current vehicle giveaway, the 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Indy Pace Car, comes to an end on Saturday, February 15th, 2025 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time. You could not only win it, but also a cool $5,000 in cash!!

The Camaro is our eighth ride we’re giving away since the Sick-themed (and wrapped) Chevrolet Tahoe kick started our giveaway spree in early 2023. The Camaro was on display during our recent Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive.

“After owning this classic for over 20 years, I felt it was time for one of our Sick supporters to enjoy it,” said Tom Bailey. “It’s a great car, and it provided the new look for ‘Sick Seconds 2.0’ to carry into 2025.”

After the success of the Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive in 2022, Tom Bailey came up with the idea of keeping a consistent drag and drive event each year, as well as a unique one.

Following in the footsteps of our Edelbrock Sick 66 event in 2024, Sick the Magazine will host a pair of ‘one-off’ events in 2025, the first being in our home state with Sick Michigan Miles Presented by Driven Racing Oil, August 10th through the 17th, 2025!

“When the idea was first proposed, I started thinking about how nice the areas around northern Michigan are,” said Tom Bailey of Sick The Mag. “The more Luke Nieuwhof (Sick The Mag editor) and I discussed it, it made sense that we could visit four great tracks, incorporate an August tradition for automotive enthusiasts, and do a 1,000 mile road trip in one week’s time.”

After a barn burner of a debut in 2024, the PRO Superstar Shootout returned to Bradenton Motorsports Park to give enthusiasts their first dose of nitromethane for the 2025 season.

Run as a 3-day event, fans were treated to 8-car qualified fields of Top Fuel and Funny Car, a 16-car field of Pro Stock, and a trio of sportsman classes: Stock, Super Stock, and Top Sportsman. Tom Bailey made a couple exhibition runs in the ‘Sick Seconds 2.0’ Camaro.

With four qualifying sessions over two days for the 3 professional categories, as well as a trio of sportsman classes, just getting to eliminations was a victory.

Who scored victory to take home the six unique trophies and a bundle of money?

In a state that has seen several dozen tracks since the 1950s, Palm Beach International Raceway looked to have the staying power, even going through a complete revamp in 2008 to become an all-concrete track.

Fourteen years later, April of 2022, the track saw its last action, and the land was going to be repurposed for warehouses. And although the southeast Florida area has been devoid of an operational quarter-mile track since, there’s been a good bit of news that could return PBIR to its former glory.

The sale never went through due to a variety of factors, and the track has continued to sit vacant and unused. The owner at the time of the closure, IRG Sports and Entertainment, has since fallen into liquidation of their assets, and as of a few weeks ago, the 174-acre property was listed on the open market with a “call for price” listing. Could the track possibly be saved?

Sick Week 2025 Presented By Gear Vendors Overdrive proudly promotes itself as the Super Bowl of Drag-and-Drive, providing the best environment for the world’s quickest street-n-strip cars to strut their stuff.

When you sit straight up in bed at 7 a.m. thinking “crap; I’m late heading to the track.” But then realize it’s the day after Sick Week 2025 is complete. Facebook and social media timelines are starting to show stuff other than Sick Week updates from competitors and Sick Warders, photos from all the photographers, and you start to question reality and feel weird. Congrats, your ‘drag-and-drive hangover’ has started.

Luke Nieuwhof wrote about how we can fall into a little made-up world when doing a drag-and-drive, and I got to see both sides of it back in 2022 when I did my first Sick Week event. Being a typical male, I injured myself about a month before the event. The ensuing pain led me to do the drives on Sick Week from track to track alone, and I didn’t follow the specified route until the final day. I rolled back to my regular job on Monday, and the normal grind probably masked my ‘drag-and-drive-hangover.’ One year later, I got the full experience.

After five days of traveling through Georgia and Florida, Sick Week presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive rolled into South Georgia Motorsports Park for the final day to see who had enough left in the tank to complete a nearly 850 mile trip, and their final pass, from five days of work.

We may have started with rain and cold temperatures on Day Zero that prevented any on track activity, but on Day Five, the all-concrete surface in southern Georgia was scorched with record times and shocking faces as competitors just kept getting quicker throughout the day.

Brett LaSala is just one step away from becoming a two-times Sick Week champion after setting a new drag-and-drive track record at Gainesville Raceway on Friday.

Orlando Speed World lived up to its name on day three of Sick Week 2025 Presented By Gear Vendors Overdrive, with world records and amid drama at the top of the field.

Thousands of fans filled Bradenton Motorsports Park to capacity for day two of Sick Week 2025 Presented By Gear Vendors Overdrive, where Brett LaSala blasted to a new world record for a radial tire drag-and-drive car.

The first day of Sick Week 2025 Presented By Gear Vendors Overdrive was a wild one, as the Super Bowl of drag-and-drive kicked off at South Georgia Motorsports Park.

As Georgia starts to thaw out from the freezing temperatures and snow they experienced last week, the action also heated up in more ways than one during the second day of testing at South Georgia Motorsports Park for Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive.

Several rides made some hot licks on the track, while others overheated their parts where the carnage has us wondering who can be ready for Day One on Tuesday, January 28th.

Testing has begun for Sick Week 2025 Presented By Gear Vendors Overdrive, with high anticipation of a spectacular drag-and-drive event to come.

Exciting new cars and nervous new racers are waiting for the Super Bowl of Drag-and-Drive to begin, as are fans around the world and everyone on the FRDM+ live stream.

While Florida and Georgia are the hot ticket right now, Sick has big plans for its home state of Michigan when Sick Michigan Miles Presented By Driven Racing Oil launches in August. This eighth-mile event, in the spirit of Edelbrock Sick 66 and Death Week, will take racers around the beautiful coast of Michigan and into the incredible Woodward Dream Cruise.

With snow on the ground surrounding the all-concrete racing surface at South Georgia Motorsports Park, the track known for setting records on small tire radial rides hosted their first of two testing days on Saturday, January 25th, leading to the fourth annual Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive. Both big and small-tire cars took to the track to shake off their winter blues, test out new combinations, and take advantage of the mineshaft air conditions.

Several drivers made some solid check out runs, but we also have a few falling by the wayside early.

The drag-and-drive that started it all, Hot Rod Drag Week, released their dates and tracks for the 2025 event about a month ago, December 17th, 2024. Today, the details on registration, as well as the anticipated rule set, were released for the 21st running of the event, which will visit the Northeast region for two new race tracks, as well as two track Hot Rod Drag Week has visited before.

 Hot Rod Drag Week, which will be contested from September 14th through the 19th, will start and end at Maryland International Raceway, located in Budds Creek, Maryland. Following day one activities, the event will visit Numidia Dragway in Pennsylvania for day two and stay in Pennsylvania to race at Maple Grove Raceway on day three. Day four will return to Maryland to battle on Cecil County Dragway’s surface, before arrival back at Maryland International Raceway for day five to wrap up the event and crown winners.

In addition to announcing the registration date, which will open on Saturday, February 22nd at 9 am EST, Hot Rod Drag Week released their newest rule set.

Many will stress that the main focus of a drag-and-drive event is to complete the event, while having a good time and making memories. But we’d be lying if we didn’t talk about some of the incredible performances that are accomplished as well.

From the quickest cars in Unlimited, to the Rowdy Radial rides that clock 4.6-second times on an 8.5-inch tire, we celebrate those that push the envelope of performance. The 6-second barrier in the small tire, stock suspension, Super Street class could be broken for the first time at Sick Week 2025 Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive.

Two competitors clocked 6-second runs in testing during the 2024 season; can they do in competition next week?

While much of the United States may be in winter hibernation, we’re ready to see passes on the race tracks, as well as putting down miles on the street of Florida and Georgia. It’s just about time for the fourth Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive, and with so cool stuff in store, we wanted to cover all the bases!

First things first: all the information on Sick Week is available at the event section on our website. We’ve also been covering some of the competitors coming to Sick Week in our news stories, as well as on our social media channels.

But we wanted to go over all the details, so buckle up and take a few minutes to prepare yourself for Sick Week 2025!

“There are just two weeks until the Sick Week event, the next drag-and-drive we’re going to compete in here on Finnegan’s Garage, and I have some problems.”

This is how Mike Finnegan, the host of the popular Finnegan’s Garage YouTube channel and recently concluded Roadkill show, started his most recent video upload. The urgency to get his 1955 Chevrolet packing a supercharged HEMI engine, appropriately named ‘Blasphemi’, completed and ready for Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive is apparent, but peppered with humor and a little sarcasm.

Finnegan has had a love-hate relationship with drag-and-drive events, and although not uncommon to some participants, Finnegan has experienced a variety of reasons for not completing the event.

Will he complete Sick Week in his first appearance since 2022?