Alaska Speed Week, Street Weekend UK and the BC DragiT Challenge Drag-And-Drive Events Completed
The 2023 season for drag-and-drive events is starting to heat up, as less than ten days after the completion of Sick Summer, three more drag-and-drive specific events have been completed, in three different countries!
Alaska Speed Week Presented by Sick the Mag wrapped up on June 16th, Street Weekend in the UK concluded a three-day weekend on June 18th, and BC DragiT Challenge finished their five-day event on June 19th.
Alaska Speed Week Presented by Sick the Mag is a new event for 2023, designed around daily cruises and racing action at Alaska Raceway Park, a NHRA-sanctioned quarter-mile track in Palmer.
The tour took a different cruise each day Denali Park, Fairbanks, Glenallen, and the North Pole to make up the drive section of the event.
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At the end of the Alaska event, the Dial-Your-Own class victory was captured by Richard Bogan, who varied by less than one thousandth of-a-second across the three track days.
The Stick Shift class champion was Phil Balmaceda, who made the long tow pay off by wheeling his Corvette to the title.
Street Weekend UK is also a new event for the 2023 season, and is a three-day two track format. Santa Pod Raceway hosts day one on a prepped surface, and once racing action is concluded, competitors roll to Melbourne Raceway about 200 miles away for day two.
Melbourne challenged the participants with an unprepped surface on their eighth-mile format, and once day two was complete, drivers would point their rides back to Santa Pod for day three and a prepped surface once more.
At the conclusion of the three-day event, Andy Bond would have the best calculated average to take home the victory.
Finally, the BC DragiT Challenge takes participants across British Columbia over 1000 kilometers between four different locations over five days.
Tech and racing would start at Cache Creek on Thursday June 15th, followed by visits to Prince George on June 16th, !00 Mile House on the 17th, Lillooet on Sunday the 18th, and finally back to Cache Creek on Monday June 19th.
As of press time on Monday evening, winners of the event had not been announced.
Sick the Magazine had on-site reporters for each event, and complete coverage will be in the next issue!
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Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Chris Story and Spotted Motors.
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