In an announcement Wednesday by Richard Freeman, owner of Elite Motorsports, he announced plans to expand into the NHRA’s Top Fuel category. A team largely known for their Pro Stock prowess with eight teams currently under their umbrella, Freeman definitely had the racing world buzzing with this news.

The third annual Sick Powerfest Powered by Dodge and M1 Concourse on Friday, August 9th, 2024 in Pontiac, Michigan is PACKED full of cool stuff for one big day: The World Burnout Championship with $25,000 on the line; the Sick Spit Show & Shine car show; a Manufacturer’s Midway, and a new addition for 2024: Dodge Thrill Rides!

If there’s been one thing that’s held as a constant in the nearly two decade history of drag-and-drive events, it’s the weirdly positive relationship that competitors have been able to maintain, by and large, with the police. Yes, there have been and will be citations handed out over the course of time, but when we stop and think about what have now been thousands of ragged-edge street cars cruising the highways and byways of America, the number of times that “license, registration, and proof of insurance, please,” have been uttered through a driver’s window by a large officer is exceptionally small.

The two lists that determine early entry for the 2025 edition for Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks are the Top 100 Averages, and the Top Individual Runs.

Brent Sands’ goal is to be ready for the small tire battlefield of Rowdy Radial at Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks next year. “Took me close to three years to finish the last one, so it’s going to be hard to get this one done in a year. At least I have most of the parts.”

Although Hot Rod Drag Week didn’t start out with the intention of making their Street Race classes into an index-based competition, that’s become the norm. Rocky Mountain Race Week and Sick Week-Sick Summer followed suit, and the competition to run that 8.500 perfect pass is heating up.

The drag-and-drive community got a boost of youthful participation, as six competitors in the recent Sick Summer event are under eighteen years-old! And in a climate where it’s easy to get into thousands of other things besides cars or a drag-and-drive, we felt it necessary to highlight some of them here!

It’s easy to stare at a clean 1967 Chevrolet Nova, but Corey Bohl’s Chevy takes that factor up a notch with the cool gasser vibe. Powered by a small block Chevy with a tunnel ram and a pair of Holley carburetors on top, the cool factor increased when Corey slid a manual trans in the transmission tunnel. Could it all survive Sick Summer?

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.

Lizzy Musi had announced she was battling the cancer in April of 2023, and stepped away from racing this May to take part in a new treatment in her battle.

The drag-and-drive community can get a harsh reminder that just surviving the week is the top task. Then again, Rocky Mountain Race Week 1.0 is still seeing some competitors clocking insane times, and the index classes continue to be close battle grounds.

July will witness a double dose of Sick the Magazine, as the National Muscle Car Association will host the first of two Sick Shootout classes for the 2024 season, starting with the NMRA / NMCA Power Festival, scheduled for July 18th through the 21st, held at US 131 Motorsports Park in Martin, Michigan.

To kick off the 2024 Rocky Mountain Race Week, Tulsa Raceway Park hosted 314 vehicles and 12 motorcycles on Sunday. With racing activities completed that evening, the Monday ‘workload’ would be who could survive 350-ish miles from Oklahoma to Texas to stage up on Tuesday for day two of racing, and day three of the week.

Sure the title of this column seems to make no sense and have nothing to do with drag racing, but in truth, it has everything to do with it. Whether you are a racer, a fan, or simply a passionate supporter of the sport, all of the things mentioned above have a lot to do with the continued success of the enterprise today and long, long into the future.

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.

We can commonly read about drag-and-drive competitors at the side of the road battling issues; that's par for the course. Unfortunately, we occasionally hear about crashes on the road as well, and one impacted this week's Rocky Mountain Race Week event.

There’s lots of ways to be successful, especially if you take time to develop a solid plan. Granted, plenty of competitors can survive a drag-and-drive with last minute thrashes and no testing. But the father-son team of Steven and A.J. Lloyd took a prepared approach for their first drag-and-drive appearance at Sick Summer.