From Passenger to Driver, Ashleigh Goodnow Ready for 2023 Drag-and-Drive Season and Quicker Times
After riding as a passenger with husband Chris Goodnow on Hot Rod Drag Week for two years, Ashleigh Goodnow decided she wanted to switch to the driver’s seat for 2022.
So, at the 2022 Sick Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive, Ashleigh embarked on her first drag-and-drive as a competitor, behind the wheel of her 2014 Chevrolet SS Sedan.
“After following along on two Hot Rod Drag Weeks, Sick Week definitely was less stressful when it comes to the drives,” she said. “The drives were shorter; the checkpoints were really neat and well thought out and more interesting than just a rest stop or gas station.”
To make the drag-and-drive experience a little more fun, Ashleigh’s Chevrolet SS sports a LS3 powerplant with some power upgrades from a bigger camshaft, and replacing the factory exhaust with long tube headers and matching exhaust. All together, the big sedan has enough beans to clock times in the low 12-second range naturally aspirated.
At Sick Week, Ashleigh ran the Naturally Aspirated class, and finished with a 12.17 average for the week, highlighted by a 12.00 at 116 mph at South Georgia Motorsports Park on day four.
What is she looking forward to at the 2023 edition of Sick Week? “I would like to improve my times over last year and complete the event,” Ashleigh said. “I think my biggest challenge is going to be getting my 60-foot times down.”
- Written by Derek Putnam. Photo courtesy of KWS Images.