Six days of driving and racing reached the ultimate conclusion last night, as the tenth running of Rocky Mountain Race Week Presented by Sick the Magazine hit the finish line at Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma.

The event would be centered around Alaska Raceway Park, an National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) sanctioned quarter-mile track in Palmer Alaska.

After five days of racing and driving, Rocky Mountain Race Week 1.0 has one final drive today, back to where it all started, Tulsa Raceway Park in Oklahoma for a packed final day of crowning winners and racing action.

After building an exo roll cage for Cleetus McFarland’s Corvette several years ago, it was no surprise that Cameron Johnson was tapped to build Cleetus’ latest race car, a ’69 Chevrolet Camaro known as ‘Eagle.’ Now, Cameron Johnson Race Cars (CJRC) is jumping into the drag-and-drive world with a brand new build of their own.

The 8th stop on the Street Car Takeover event tour of 2024 was held at zMax Dragway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Always a well-attended event in multiple classes, a couple of Sick Week competitors found themselves as the top rides in the popular Street Racer class.

Larry Larson has been absent from the drag-and-drive world for a decade - is his newest ride signaling his return to it?

Since the very beginning of what we now know as the world of drag-and-drive competition, it has existed as a unique and wholly interesting subset of the sport of drag racing. More than that, it has evolved in ways that are singular in and unto itself.

Following our coverage on Monday June 3rd from a weekend with three separate events featuring drag-and-drive classes, we’re adding part two today - ‘Drop the Hammer’ as well as the drag-and-drive exhibition class results at the NHRA New England Nationals.

The first West Coast event of the season was completed with the inaugural Olympic Drag n Drive wrapping up on Sunday June 2nd. Utilizing Bremerton Raceway in Port Orchard, Washington for racing activities on Friday and Sunday, with a drive day in-between, winners were crowned in four classes yesterday.

This weekend - the final weekend in May / first weekend of June, a pair of first-time drag-and-drive events get under way, joined by the second drag-and-drive exhibition at a National Hot Rod Association event for the 2024 season.

A scene that I have referenced previously happened at a hotel in Michigan on a Thursday evening in 2005. This was the night preceding the last day of Drag Week. There was a good group of guys sitting around this table and the conversation was about when the hotel would run out of Corona and the future for an event like Hot Rod Drag Week.

After four days of fun with drag-and-drive rides, including some road miles on Thursday, a pair of time runs Friday, and eliminations on Saturday and Sunday, a winner has been crowned in the second annual PEAK Street Car Shootout as part of Gerber Collision and Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance at Chicago’s Route 66 Raceway.

Showcasing eight ride from the drag-and-drive community takes place for the second-year as part of the Gerber Collision and Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance at Chicago’s Route 66 Raceway this weekend.

The brainchild of promotor Nate Prater, Street Car Braggin Rights hosted ten classes over three days at Carolina Dragway.

The moment that changed everything for Garrett Mitchell came when he recorded a goofy video with Tom Bailey’s ‘Sick Seconds 1.0’ on Rocky Mountain Race Week in July 2015.

68 cars and trucks signed up, and a chance of rain hung overhead on sign up day, but the weather would look reasonably sunny. But as participants left to head to the next destination, reports of a tornado were getting passed around. Thankfully, no participants had issues and made the trek safely.

“I love driving my car every day, everywhere. Drag racing and meeting new people that enjoy the same hobby is what has gotten me interested in the drag-and-drive world.”

“I’ve been looking for a clean ‘72 for a while now, since my dad sold his in late 1999 early 2000. “

With the huge upswing of drag-and-drive events in the last two years, several have speculated what it takes to be competitive in classes, and what the top 100 averages look like, has been mentioned a few times.

We’re doing the ultimate drag-and-drive / road trip on one of the most popular highways in America: Route 66, plus Sick the Magazine, to create Sick 66! It all starts October 10th at Ozark Raceway Park in Missouri, and we’ll wrap it up eight days later at Albuquerque Dragway in New Mexico on October 18th.