The Final Weekend of August Finds a Couple Familiar Names in Drag and Drive Scoring Wins in Indiana, and a Top Competitor in Modified Invades the 6-Second Range in Testing!
With nearly eight months and two-thirds of the 2025 drag and drive schedule in the rear view mirror, some competitors are getting some testing in for the final stretch of the year, while others are making changes and looking towards 2026.
A couple of drag and drive competitors recently visited Muncie Dragway and left with class wins, while a pair of station wagons found new personal bests tuning up for a Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive appearance in 2026.
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Returning to the site of his Back To The Streets victory, Adam Hodson snagged another win on the surface of Muncie Dragway in Indiana. During the HSM Drag Racing Series event, Hodson wheeled the ‘Gap Train’ S-10 to a win in the 5.30 index class on Friday, August 29th.
Muncie Dragway would see another drag and drive name in the winners circle one day later, at the Hole Shot Media event. Indiana native Jeremy Ortiz continued a stellar 2025 season, scoring his second win at Muncie in 2025, as well as his second victory at a Hole Shot Media event. But this time, Ortiz would get the top prize in the 5.30 index class.
This win would also be the second time Ortiz scored a 5.30 index win, as he picked up the win in the Lil Gangstas 5.30 class at Sick On The Green in May at Beech Bend Raceway Park.
On the racing and testing front, a couple station wagons scored new personal bests during a weekend at Dragway 42 in Ohio.
While a lot of focus has been on the new Big 3 Racing shop going up at Dragway 42, co-owner Chuck Stefanski has been tinkering on his Pontiac Lemans station wagon. Sporting a big block Chevrolet with a large crank-driven ProCharger and the unique zoomie headers, Stefanski has done well with the wagon in drag and drive competition.
In the last year, Stefanski scored a win in the Modified Power-Adder class at the 2024 edition of Hot Rod Drag Week, a second place result in the Modified class at Sick Week 2025, and collected a trio of category wins at Sick At The Rock Presented by Motion Raceworks in April 2025. But he wanted more.
Stefanski made a camshaft swap for a new stick from Brian Tooley Racing (BTR), and the wagon got a date on the hub dyno at Big 3 Racing. By the end of the session, the results were in at 2106 horsepower from the Mainline hub dyno!
“We picked up about 150 horsepower using our new hub dyno,” said Stefanski. With bigger numbers in hand, the next step was the race track, and Stefanski made the short drive to make some laps on the Dragway 42 surface.
After clocking 4.4-second eighth-mile results on the first two runs, Stefanski put together a new personal best on the third run, scoring a 4.39 at 164 mph eighth-mile time, and coasted to a 6.85 at 183 mph in the quarter-mile.
“We are making a few changes, and plan to start testing for Sick Week (next year),” said Stefanski. “Our goal is a 6-second pass every day.”
Kevin Schweizer, who took home second place in the Heavy Metal class at this year’s Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive with an 8.16 average, is aiming for an all 7-second week in 2026. To do so, he’s been testing and tuning on the Godzilla-swapped twin-turbo Mercury Zephyr wagon.
Competing in the Outlaw 660 Series Easy Street class, Schweizer clocked a personal best 4.98 eighth-mile pass in route to a runner-up finish. “I want that 7-second pass every day (of Sick Week 2026),” said Schweizer. “As always, the goal is to finish.”
Written by Derek Putnam. Photos courtesy of Sick the Magazine, 1320 Video, Big 3 Racing, Adam Hodson, Jeremy Ortiz.
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