Some are tested and ready days, or even weeks in advance for this week’s Sick Summer event, while others are still busting their knuckles to make the 1 p.m. deadline to arrive in tech line to be able to compete. From last-minute turn signal wiring, to pulling out a transmission with the final hours ticking away, this is what we’ve seen on last minute work to get into competition.

Despite the lack of sleep and another year of thrashing, Jeff Kurczak is looking forward to spending time with his family on Sick Summer. Jeff will be piloting his Godzilla-powered ‘93 Mustang, while his son will wheel an ‘80 Fairmont. For daughter Aly Kurczak, she will participate as a competitor on her first drag-and-drive ever, after riding with Jeff on last year’s Sick Summer.

As a bonus for Sick Summer fans, the week-long tour will be accompanied by a fleet of Australian burnout cars.

Offering a product catalog that is nearly 100-percent ‘Made in the USA’ sourced, Motion Raceworks has shown to be one of the companies in it for the long haul for not only the drag-and-drive community, but automotive enthusiasts in all walks of life.

When they announced the venues for Sick Summer 2024, I was most excited to see that we are heading back to Great Lakes Dragaway, Wisconsin. AKA Union Grove, it’s the coolest racetrack I’ve been to and it’s one of my “happy places”.

As opening day at Byron Dragway approaches, let’s review the field and see who might be in with a shot at having the quickest average of the entire field for Motion Raceworks Sick Summer. Needless to say, you’re going to have to be running sixes…

Thanks to our awesome designer Garrett Olsen, each and every Sick Summer track have featured limited edition t-shirts for each day of the event. 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 days 3 and 4!

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.