We can smell the burnt rubber and race fuel, visualize staging lanes full of cars, the grandstands packed with people, and the social media posts of people thrashing and making final preparations; it’s just about time for Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive!

For the fifth edition of Sick Week, we’ll start the festivities at a new host track: Gainesville Raceway. And thanks to the efforts of the Sick The Mag staff, the NHRA and the Gainesville Raceway staff, we will host two days of advance testing, as well as VIP Tech.

The first drag and drive event, Hot Rod Drag Week, was held in 2005. Although nearly 50 competitors embarked on this historic journey, only 32 survived, with Carl Scott’s 8.58 average capturing the overall title.

The top three finishers of the first Hot Rod Drag Week, Carl Scott, Phil Cooper and Larry Larson, completed the event with 8-second averages.

Since then, over three hundred more competitors have completed a major drag and drive event with an 8-second average, and we’re celebrating them in our third segment of recognizing drag and drive performances.

At Sick The Magazine, we’re all about reporting the latest happenings, giving you detailed event coverage, and celebrating the people and their accomplishments in drag and drive.

But with drag and drive history crossing the two-decade mark since it officially started in 2005, we’re also about recognizing the performances that have gotten us to this point. Last week, we celebrated the twenty-two drivers that have achieved a 6-second average. Now we’re jumping into the 7-second range for averages.