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.

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).

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 several years of entertaining audiences, and completing several drag and drive events in his family’s wheelstanding 1963 Divco (Detroit Industrial Vehicles COmpany) Milk Truck, Nick Cryer made the switch to a more serious 1933 Ford Coupe at the 2025 edition of Motion Raceworks Sick Summer.

Nick’s drag and drive debut came up a single day short of completion, but Nick would rebound at his next two drag and drive events, Hot Rod Drag Week and Edelbrock Sick Smokies. And we got a glimpse at what the ’33 Ford could deliver for performances in 2026.

Getting its start with paperwork in November of 1975, Atmore Dragway has seen nearly five decades of racing action under three different sanctioning bodies, multiple owners and managers, and has hosted everything from national events, to Gassers, Pro Mods, bracket racing and no-prep in 2025.

Originally the vision of Bessie Owens, Amelia Owens, Robert Owens and Travis Gary in 1975, the eighth-mile track in Atmore, Alabama now under the name of Atmore Dragstrip could face an unknown future. Current ambassadors Joey and Misty Barber announced the closure of the track at the end of 2025, and it sounds like it could be permanent.

The Detroit AutoRama, an indoor car, truck, hot rod and motorcycle show held for over 70 years, puts tens of thousands of amazing rides on display. Everything from production cars, to top tier builds, including select few that are eligible for The Ridler Award.

Sick The Magazine has brought a drag and drive flavor to the show for years, and for the 2026 edition of The Detroit AutoRama, we’re looking to expand that display, and it could include your ride!

After more than a decade of modern Charger and Challenger models in their arsenal, including the popular Hellcat and Drag Pak versions, Dodge signaled the end of production to the third generation Challenger and the Charger’s seventh generation in 2023.

A little over a year ago, the eighth generation of the Charger debuted to the public, but without a V8 option able to be ordered. Today, Dodge put a big checkmark in that column, as the first Charger Hustle Stuff Drag Pak by Direct Connection was revealed, with a HEMI in place.

This launch brings the SRT high-performance 354 cubic inch HEMI with a Whipple supercharger, together with a revamped Dodge Charger platform, specifically for drag racing.

Nearly a decade after acquiring a name that some might have questioned, Matt Donovan has rolled into the double-digit number of drag and drive events he’s attended with a 1938 Chevrolet coupe.

Granted, the original ‘Garbage That Barfed’ 1941 Pontiac was upgraded to the current ’38 Chevrolet, but the spirit remains. And in addition to completing the unique Edelbrock Sick Smokies event, Donovan hopes to check off some personal goals.

Working in the performance industry has its perks, and one of those is getting lots of ideas for either a current or new project. In the case of Tim Irwin, who has over fifty years in the racing world, he needs to looks no further than the racing community and his current employer, Moser Engineering.

Irwin has owned and built some cool rides, including Gassers. “I’ve been a chassis builder for most of my working life, and know what it takes to build a competitive car,” Irwin said. That has played into his interest, as well as a car, for the quickly-approaching Edelbrock Sick Smokies event.

Some of us get a first or second car that resonates with us, sometimes enough to retain ownership, or the desire to have a similar model for the long haul.

But there are other enthusiasts that have to ‘pay their dues’ and bust their tail to get that car and/or the performance they have been picturing in their life. That was the case with Dean Trowbridge, who will join us for Edelbrock Sick Smokies and his first drag and drive with this Willys Gasser.

Some classic rides enjoy a lengthy ownership under the individual that originally purchased them, and in the case of this ’63 Ford Galaxie 500, it was also raced not long as after leaving the dealership.

After more than five decades of ownership, The Galaxie changed hands in 2018 to a new owner, Bobby Frizzell. He has continued to exercise the car on the track, and will add in the street element in a couple weeks when he embarks on Edelbrock Sick Smokies.