Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks Track Shirts Designs Are Finalized – Days 1 and 2 (Byron Dragway and Cordova Dragway) Are Revealed - Get Yours Exclusively at Each Track During Sick Summer!
After an epic first Sick Summer held in 2023, it was an easy decision to hit the “repeat” button and set in motion all the right meetings, people and places to bring Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks back to Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
We’ve posted stories about the event, options on participating, including our revised Sick Ward and Sick Spit Show & Shine. But we know what you really want to see: The Track Shirts!
Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks is less than a week away: June 9th-14th!! It’s the drag-and-drive you need to start your summer right: 350 cars, 4 different race tracks, awesome checkpoints, and over 600 miles of street driving! Click here for all the details!
Thanks to our awesome designer Garrett Olsen, each and every Sick Week and Sick Summer have featured limited edition t-shirts for each track day of the event (the first drag-and-drive event to ever do so starting in 2022). The only way to get these shirts? On site at each track on each day!
Each track on Sick Summer has a good bit of history, and Garrett works in some cool extras as well as past participants from Sick Week and Sick Summer. Each design also incorporates a “spirit animal / Where’s Waldo?” item; can you find it on each shirt?
For the 2024 edition of Sick Summer, Byron Dragway marks the start and finish point of the week. So as tradition dictates, there will be two versions of that track shirt, only available on the day we’re there!
Day 1 starts at Byron Dragway in Byron, Illinois, the home of the World Power Wheel Standing Championships since 1994. Granted, Mother Nature didn’t give Sick Summer a full day of drag-and-drive fun last year, but we did see some good performances before the skies opened.
This year’s day one Byron Dragway shirt features Terry Miller, who finished second in the Naturally Aspirated category at last year’s Sick Summer. Eric Yost makes an appearance on the left from our last event – Sick Week – while on the right side we see the front end of last year’s Sick Summer Rowdy Radial class champion, Andy Cook and his 2005 Pontiac GTO.
The second day moves to Cordova Dragway, and the unique blown 1969 Dodge Dart of Tony Wisman, who attended his first drag-and-drive at last year’s Sick Summer, takes the center spot of the shirt. Andy Cook’s GTO shows about three-quarter section of the caron the left side, while we catch the quarter panel of the ‘Hustlin Hillbilly” ’55 Chevrolet belonging to Darwin Peterson, the Gasser champ from Sick Summer 2023.
We will return with the shirt designs for the next three days later this week, as well as a cool “overall” look of how the shirt back designs all connect together. Each of these unique t-shirts will ‘debut’ at the featured track, and will feature a limited quantity! We sold out of every track shirt at Sick Summer last year, so make sure to get yours as soon as you get through the gates!
The best way to start a fun-filled summer is Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks! 6 days, 4 tracks, over 600 miles, and one hell of a road trip! See the 6-second 200-mph rides of Alex Taylor, Bryant Goldstone, Cleetus McFarland, Nick Taylor, and over 300 more street cars and trucks, as they travel the roads and battle on the drag strips, of the Midwest.
Want to join us? Spectator tickets and Sick Ward spots are available! Click here to find out more!
Written by Derek Putnam. Shirt designs courtesy of Garrett Olsen.
If you have thoughts / feedback / ideas, please e-mail us at derek@sickthemagazine.com