The naturally aspirated racers of drag-and-drive are at war - who will reign supreme?

This week I want to pay tribute to a group of people who make my job as a drag-and-drive videographer easier: my favorite interviewees. My beloved muses. My pet victims.

One time I picked the wrong time to stick a camera in Tom Bailey’s face. It was at Sick Week 2023. Bradenton. Day two. Around 3:12pm. Racing was winding down for the day and the Sick Seconds 2.0 Camaro was having all kinds of problems. Tom was in the pits getting ready to make a last-ditch lick. He was perched on a tire, putting on a pair of those little race booties that the fast guys wear, and there was trouble on his mind.

Rock Falls Block Party, remember the name. It was only announced last week but I can already sense that this event within the event will become a Sick Summer tradition that’ll run long into the future. Why? Because we’ve been workshopping this idea for years and it’s too good to fail.

We’ve just witnessed history. Last weekend, David and Aimee Gallimore became the first Americans to complete an Australian drag-and-drive event in their own vehicle. The intrepid explorers from Durham, North Carolina, accomplished the feat at the first-ever Hardass 1000 in an Australian-built Ford Falcon panel van powered by David’s beloved boosted Barra six. Lewis and Clarke, eat your hearts out!

By now you’ve probably seen the ‘Support Your Local Track’ T-shirt designed by Sick The Artist, Garrett Olsen. I love it. I bought one for every day of the week because you can never have too many black T-shirts and because the message is one that I care to spread.

Sourcing decent food during a drag-and-drive is fraught with trouble. That’s why the sketchy-looking Mexican joint with steel bars on the windows may be your best bet. I know that sounds counterintuitive, so let me explain...

Danny Grubaugh and Alex Brody are a couple of kindred spirits aged 17 years apart, and their friendship is a prime example of drag-and-drive’s propensity for bonding automotive adventurers together like J-B Weld.

Have the lunatics taken over the asylum? That would seem to be the case in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia, where Harry Haig is preparing to host his own drag-and-drive event, the Hardass 1000.

The Winter 2024 edition of Sick The Mag has just dropped and I’m having a blast reading all the tales of torment and triumph from Death Week. Now that the dust has settled and most of the emotional scars have healed, I’m wondering why we aren’t planning to do it all again.