Rajveer Ahuja Receives Sickest of the Sick Award at Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks
So what is “The Sickest Of The Sick” award? Just like the definition of a street car, it could have many different meanings to many different people. What I’ve had explained to me is this: it is who best embodies the spirit of a drag-and-drive.
In the words of Adam Dorey: “Everybody can struggle or thrash in some way on a drag-and-drive. Whoever embraces the spirit of the event, and does their best to promote that spirit in others, should be considered for the award.”
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Now, of course nominations can be subject to interpretation, what you see, and what you hear. But if several people witness the same thing, and several people suggest the same person, then it just starts making things easier and easier. Throughout the six days I spent on Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks, I got to see a lot from the towers. And one person I saw a lot was Rajveer Ahuja.
Some may know Rajveer as the guy from the Yukon; some may have heard he made 26 runs in a single day on last year’s Death Week drag-and-drive event (he make that many runs). Some know him for his massive trailer burnouts, and some may have gotten the inkling that he is an educated man on the ways of maple syrup.
Rajveer attends several events a year (he has even taken on a crew member role for Bill Trovato’s Camaro in heads up NMCA completion). But even at events he’s racing in, when he could be working on his own program, you instead see him at the starting line.
He isn’t afraid to grab a broom or mop and help out the starting line crew, even if we are nowhere near running his class or group.
He will help line up fellow competitors as well. When I asked him about it, he responded “if I can do something to help a fellow competitor, and they can make a better run, then we all win,” said Rajveer. “If I don’t and I stand there and that competitor spins and everything goes slower, they’re upset and have to come back around.”
When Rajveer was announced as the winner, you could tell he was surprised. “I was not expecting that,” he said. “More than honored to be chosen.” He will carry the trophy for the next year, where he will pass it to the next Sickest of the Sick winner.
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Sick the Magazine, Erin and Trevor Branden.
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