Stefan Gustafsson has redemption on his mind for Sick Week 2026 Presented By Gear Vendors Overdrive (February 1-7), as the former champion prepares for a return to form.

Although the popular Street Race / Limited Street classes were not originally designed to be index-limited classes, the competition pushing performances to the edge of the 8.50-second roll cage limits has made them into some of the toughest classes to compete in.

It’s not unheard of to see car counts north of 30-50 competitors, and twice in Hot Rod Drag Week event history, a competitor has clocked all 8.50-second runs during the week. And although Eric Burroughs and his Monte Carlo are not strangers to the Sick Summer event, 2026 will mark the first time he’ll dive into the thick of the Street Race class competition at a Sick The Mag event.

Every year, there’s conversations about performances, and in some cases records, for a class or engine platforms in racing. Drag and drive competition isn’t immune to this, and one of the points that constantly comes up is the lack of import-based vehicles in drag and drive events.

Although there is a growing number of import vehicles competing in events, most of them average in the 9-second and slower range. The current record holder for Sick the Mag events is Trevor and Erin Branden’s 2010 GT-R, and although the car has proven itself with multiple wins at numerous events, the Brandens are coming to Sick Week with a new goal in mind.

It was a little over four years ago that Sick The Magazine was introduced in print, and in December 2021, the Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show was not only exposed to Sick The Magazine for the first time, but also the hype of the first Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive.

Since then, the drag and drive community, and the event calendar, has exploded. For the 2025 season, Sick The Magazine also expanded to host more events than ever before, and at the recent PRI Show, Sick The Mag has ramped things up for the 2026 season.

The Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show is just one day away from getting under way, with three days of performance and racing parts and service on deck to overload the senses.

Indianapolis doesn’t just host the PRI Show, as for the fourth time, Sick Kart Kaos brings racing and performance enthusiasts together at Fastimes Indoor Karting on December 11th for the fastest winter party in Indiana.

Sick Kart Kaos will showcase 80 drivers for qualifying, “auditioning” to be one of the lucky members to join a team for final competition. The eight teams consist of Sick The Magazine's group of great partners, and PEAK Performance is one that’s been with us since we started the Sick Week event in 2022.

There’s a new name in motorsport event services, set to bring professionalism and passion to tracks and series around the globe: Sick Prep.

Led by experienced track specialist Thomas Bemis, Sick Prep will be offering a range of services covering the event management spectrum including track surface preparation, track equipment sales, track safety, race directing, event staffing, ticketing and more. 

From humble beginnings, Sick has evolved into a motorsports phenomenon. Whether it’s the industry-leading print magazine, the ever-expanding range of events, or now motorsport event services, Sick has innovated and brought new energy to the automotive world and beyond.

The 2026 edition of the PRI Show will see some massive announcements from the Sick Team, and we’re outlining

The Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show brings a large contingent of racing and performance enthusiasts together for a trio of days to see the latest and greatest parts and services in Indianapolis up close.

Sick Kart Kaos uses that same recipe to bring racing and performance enthusiasts together, but with helmets and karts instead, as we’ll invade Fastimes Indoor Karting on December 11th for the fastest party in Indianapolis.

Starting with eight teams, made up of Sick The Magazine's group of great partners, will battle on the track, and one of them will be Gear Vendors Overdrive.

Created as a way to kick off the first night of the Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show in Indianapolis, Sick Kart Kaos brings drag and drive enthusiasts together on a different type of track. And for the fourth time since 2022, Fastimes Indoor Karting will host a party like no other on December 11th, 2025.

The invite-only event will take on a new look in 2025, as eight teams will be made up of Sick The Magazine's group of partners. Those teams will play witness to the largest gather of competitors ever, as Sick The Mag opens the doors to 80 hopefuls to attempt qualifying.

Sick Kart Kaos is THIS WEEK, Thursday, December 11th, as we host the fastest party during the Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show in Indianapolis.

Eight teams will duke it out at Fastimes Indoor Karting, created from Sick’s great group of sponsors and supporters. One that will be competing in Sick Kart Kaos for the first time in 2025 is Melling Performance, who hopes to bring as solid an effort to karting as they do to the PRI Show.

The Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show celebrates the racing and performance industries by bringing enthusiasts together in Indianapolis for three days to check out the latest and greatest parts and services.

Bringing together enthusiasts is something Sick The Magazine has done with our print magazine and events since 2021, and for 2025, we will host Sick Kart Kaos for the fourth year. Using Fastimes Indoor Karting on December 11th, Sick The Mag will host one of the fastest gatherings during the PRI Show, and one of the eight teams is the Edelbrock group.

It started as an idea in 2022, and over the first three years of the Sick Kart Kaos event, the competition has continued to evolve and intensify. 2025 promises to be more of the same, as December 11th will bring eight teams together to duke it out with 32 drivers.

Held on the first night of the Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show, Sick Kart Kaos brings together teams of Sick The Mag's sponsors and partners. The 2025 edition will bring more drivers than ever before, and several teams look to play that to their advantage.

XS Power Batteries first joined the Sick The Magazine sponsor row in 2024 at Sick Week, and at last year’s Kart Kaos, the XS Power Batteries team grabbed a second-place finish, with familiar face Remy Viator as a part of it.

The Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show brings a large contingent of racing and performance enthusiasts together for three days to check out the latest and greatest parts and services in Indianapolis.

Sick Kart Kaos uses that same recipe to bring racing and performance enthusiasts together, but with helmets and karts instead, as we’ll invade Fastimes Indoor Karting on December 11th for the fastest party in Indianapolis.

Eight teams, made up of Sick The Mag's fantastic group of partners, will battle on the track, and one of them will be Driven Racing Oil. And they will bring a combination of proven experience, as well as a few new faces.

As a part of not only Sick The Magazine’s print magazine since its inception, but also our events since the first Sick Week, Summit Racing Equipment has been all about meeting the unique demands of the drag and drive community, while matching the energy that events bring.

That energy is matched by Summit’s Motorsports and Events Director Tommy Dupree, who kicked his and Summit’s support for the drag and drive community up a couple notches after participating in Hot Rod Drag Week in 2021.

Dupree hopes to bring that energy level to the Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show in Indianapolis, as well as Sick The Magazine’s Kart Kaos at Fastimes Indoor Karting on Thursday, December 11th.

Created as a way to kick off the first night of the Performance and Racing Industry (PRI) Show in Indianapolis, Sick The Magazine hosted Kart Kaos at Fastimes Indoor Karting for the first time in 2022. With the PRI show ending at 5 p.m., 4-person teams made their way to Fastimes for testing and qualifying rounds, and ultimately shooting for a chance to take home their share of the $2000 purse.

A solid list of teams and drivers have populated the indoor karting venue during the PRI show every December since that first night, but Tom Bailey and the Sick The Mag team have failed to land the top spot. That stat, combined with feedback from other teams and drivers, has led to multiple changes for what should be an exciting 2025 edition of Sick The Mag’s Kart Kaos.

Less than three weeks ago, it was announced on social media that a pair of Tennessee-based race tracks, Jackson Dragway and River Road Raceway, would be closing the gates after their 2025 seasons.

But November 23rd would bring some good news for at one of the two tracks, as Jackson Dragway posted that they would not only be changing their stance to host a 2026 season, but was also doing so with sanctioning from the NHRA (National Hot Rod Association).

Not long after Sick The Magazine started with our print edition magazine, the first Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive event was held in early 2022. Designed around the popular week-long, five-day format with four race tracks, it was an immediate hit.

But in the last couple years, the drag and drive community has seen an increase in the two-to-four day event format. This has spurred numerous conversations about Sick The Mag doing a weekend-style drag and drive event, as well as an event in combination with other organizations.

There are times when life throws you a curveball, and despite having zero experience with an engine design, let alone a single run down a drag strip, you make the choice to seize the opportunity and run with it.

Morgan Evans had that kind of curveball early in 2024 with a chance to participate in the popular Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge event, specifically the Direction Connection Grudge Race. It led to her first drag strip runs, her first drag and drive event, and nearly two years later, becoming the first to collect an 8-second time slip with the HurriCrate engine.

After a decade of participating in drag and drive events, Sick The Magazine hosted our first event in 2022, Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive. 2026 will mark a five-year anniversary for the event, and since then we have added in the Motion Raceworks Sick Summer event, plus two to four more events each year.

We realize that an event is not just about the results and the awards, but “For The Adventure” as Tom Bailey, founder of Sick The Magazine, has stated since we started. That philosophy plays into not only how we approach each event, but also looks beyond the competition, including our Summit Racing Equipment Sick Ward Presented by PEAK Performance, and Sick Spit Show & Shine options.

After successfully hosting ‘The Circuit – A Charity With Horsepower’ drag and drive events, Michael Narx and Eric White decided to up the ante for 2025 and add a second event to the brand, ‘Short Circuit.’

Based on a two-day format, Short Circuit would employ Tulsa Raceway Park for the drag racing element, incorporating racing on Friday night and Saturday afternoon / evening. A Saturday morning cruise with a goal of 100 miles would provide the ‘drive’ portion of the event, and awards would take place Saturday night.