Sick Michigan Miles – The First Major Drag-and-Drive Event in One State – Reveals the Tracks, and a Few Tasty Details!
At Sick the Magazine, we’ve shown we can cover lots of different places with drag-and-drive events.
From our yearly events, like Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive that uses the same tracks, or our one-off events like the recently completed Edelbrock Sick 66 where we covered over 1,000 miles of Route 66 from Missouri to New Mexico, we’re not afraid of the adventure. And for 2025, we’re bringing that adventure to our home state with Sick Michigan Miles Presented by Driven Racing Oil!
It’s the first of our two ‘once-only’ drag-and-drive events for 2025: Sick Michigan Miles Presented by Driven Racing Oil! Join us for 1,000-mile drive throughout Michigan, as we visit four tracks, take part in the legendary Woodward Dream Cruise, and enjoy seven day exploring our home state! For more details on Sick Michigan Miles, CLICK HERE!
Okay, you might be thinking why are they doing just one state? “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.”
Sick Michigan Miles will start on Sunday, August 10th in the south east corner of the state for Day Zero activities at Milan Dragway. The track has gone through a lot of updates, as well as adding in some new features, plus the right lane features the ‘Sick the Magazine Scoreboard.’
We’ll officially start competition on Day One - Monday, August 11th - before leaving Milan and heading for our next destination.
Day Two will take us northwest through the state to Stanton, Michigan and Mid-Michigan Motorplex. Originally opening in 1955 as Central Michigan Dragway, the track’s name was changed in 1993 by the Ledford family, who still own and run the track today.
The northwest trek will continue for Day Three, as Sick Michigan Miles will land less than ten miles from the coast of Lake Michigan at Northern Michigan Dragway. The brain child of Tom and Jim Ledford on their mother’s property in 1970, this eighth-mile track lies just outside Kaleva in Bear Lake, Michigan.
The fourth day of the week will be a drive day, as we navigate Michigan roads eastward toward our Day Five stop for Friday, August 15th, The Ubly Dragway. With over 60 years since its start, Ubly Dragway in Ubly put us less than 20 miles from Lake Huron on the east side of Michigan.
Saturday dawns one of the greatest automotive traditions in the United States, the Woodward Dream Cruise. Attracting thousands of cars and trucks to Woodward Avenue, it’s estimated that nearly one million fans and enthusiasts will celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of Woodward Dream Cruise, and mark the first time it will be part of a drag-and-drive event!
We’ll wrap up Sick Michigan Miles where it all started at Milan Dragway on Sunday, August 17th. Awards will be presented after a day of racing action.
Once our route is finalized, we will publish the routes in advance, and we take you to some of the coolest places for checkpoints. Michigan has a lot to offer, so it’ll take us a little bit before we finalize everything!
If you want to participate, but don’t want to compete at the track, the Summit Racing Equipment Sick Ward Presented by PEAK Performance is just your speed! Offering a full discounted ticket for all six days, Sick Ward also allows a select number of entrants into the track with their vehicles for the Sick Spit Show N Shine!
As soon as we have everything finalized on registration, we will be announcing it on the Sick The Magazine website, as well as our social media channels. This is one of our ‘once-off’ events, so don’t miss your chance to join us for Sick Michigan Miles, August 10th through August 17th, 2025.
For more details on Sick Michigan Miles, CLICK HERE!
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Sick the Magazine, Hard Target Images and the WDRA.
If you have thoughts / feedback / ideas, please e-mail us at derek@sickthemagazine.com