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.

After a solid 2023 season that got Rob Courtney a third-place finish at Sick Week, and a win at Sick Summer, he comes into 2024 with new targets. “I want all 8-second passes, and try to get the record from my boy Tony (Niemczyk).”

Motion Raceworks Sick Summer is going to shake up Rock Falls on Monday, June 10, 2024 with the Rock Falls Block Party, which is set to include live music, burnouts and specials from local businesses.

With just 9 days to go before Sick Summer, the Diehl brothers rolled a pair of turbocharged Mustangs out to test at US 131 Motorsports Park. The test turned a bit hot for Merry, as the ’94 Mustang belched fire as Chris turned off the track after completing a pass.

After being on the sidelines for close to two years, what better time to bring back Uncle Sam than an election year? The 1991 Camaro got finished in time to participate in the first Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive in 2022, and Nick Taylor is ready to return to the drag-and-drive scene in 2024.

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! They’re back for Sick Summer this year, and we’re ready to reveal them!

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.

Like most things motorsports, a transmission is all about the combination — not the individual parts — to create a winning and trouble-free race car. 

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.

“It’s almost weird not having to thrash (for Sick Summer), but at the same time we thrashed a little for the NHRA race. I’m looking forward to Sick Summer and completing it this year.”

It’s a slippery slope; prep less and racers could (and normally will) complain about the track. Prep to the level that quick elapsed times demand, and the casual observer will wonder why all the time is spent watching tractors on the live feed or from the grandstands.

The Spring 2024 edition of Sick The Mag dropped in my mailbox this week in all its metallic bubble-wrapped glory, and I was bursting with pride to see that editor Luke had chosen to use one of my black and white film photos on the cover. It’s an honor I hardly felt worthy of.

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.

Nick Cole-Mann, the first LS H-pattern stick shift in the sixes in January last year, set his sights for 2024 on the overall record. A month ago, the twin-turbo `91 Chevrolet S-10 pick-up clocked a 6.64 at 209 mph. “The only thing that separates me and that number one spot is a warmer race track,” Cole-Mann stated. Today, that track appeared.

This week’s “For the Adventure – Stories from the Road” comes from Dylan Peacock, co-pilot on Jordan Boudreaux’s 2002 Ford Mustang that competes on Sick Week’s 275 Street Race class. Sidelined on day one of Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive 2022, Dylan and Jordan thought their week was over, until fellow competitor Eric Cowell got them back on track with an unusual fix.

Since the crash at this year’s Sick Week, we’ve waited and wondered when the 6-second station wagon of Steve Morris would see the light again. The answer: this weekend at the new Drop the Hammer drag-and-drive event, put on by fellow drag-and-drive runner Carl Stancell. It starts at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan Friday, May 31st.

The world of drag racing has been obsessed with the number 300 since the early 1990s. It was during that time frame when top fuel dragsters began to flirt with 300mph quarter mile runs and it captured the imaginations and attention of gearheads the world over.

“My first drag-and-drive experience was in 2021, and I was instantly hooked.” That set the wheels in motion for a car of his own to participate, and he almost hit his goals last year at Sick Summer. “My goals were to try and win both the fastest 6 cylinder and over all class winner. We got close, but we needed more for 2024.”

This Pontiac Fiero is a true time capsule of the 1980s. A mid-engine, 4-cylinder, 2-seater still sporting an all-original look and layout, and we recently handed over the keys in our fourth car giveaway!

Both Rocky Mountain Race Week and Sick the Mag event rules for the Rowdy Radial class are simple: 235 sized tire (26-inches tall and 8.5-inches in width), and an eighth-mile distance format. No suspension requirements, no weight minimum, run what ya brung and hope you brought enough. But with increased performances and shrinking fields at some events, is it time for an updated ruleset?