Beginner’s luck is used to describe someone that rolls to success in a class, sport or otherwise contest with no experience in the class.

And although Sick Summer competitor Jeremy Ortiz would participate in his first ‘Lil Gangsta’s 5.30 No-Time class for the first time during Sick On The Green, his recent results label him as anything but a beginner or lucky.

Following a solid pair of outings where Ortiz captured an Extreme Radials class win at Muncie Dragway, then claimed the ‘biggest win of my racing career’ at Street Car Braggin Rights a couple weeks ago.

He came to Sick On The Green to do battle in the Street race 8.60 index class, and double down on the ‘Lil Gangsta’s class. “We didn’t have any data, so I ran the test and tune Thursday,” said Ortiz. “We had a game plan for Friday, and I just managed to execute well. I still can’t believe how this month is going; hope to keep the wins coming Saturday.”

Right as the drag and drive calendar starts to get busy in late May, we’re rolling out the red carpet at Beech Bend Raceway Park for day one of Sick On The Green!

Thursday testing brought the thrills and chills, and we’re not just talking about the roller coaster on property!

After a solid showing at Sick At The Rock, our new Sick Street Car Challenge class is back in Kentucky, with over 30 categories and a purse of more than $30K up for grabs. We’re also adding the popular ‘Lil Gangsta’s class and Street Eliminator 10.10 class, bringing the total to 9 classes offered at this event!

“When we started Sick The Magazine, it was to give more coverage for drag and drive events, and the people that support them,” said Tom Bailey of Sick The Mag. “I wanted more pictures, more coverage, and the chance for more people to see their car or their story in print.”

We have 40 pages of coverage from our recent Sick At The Rock event, including results, photos, competitor stories, and more! And we’ll be covering the upcoming Sick On The Green event as well!

Considering he has experienced waves of success with his ’55 Chevy known as Blasphemi, Mike Finnegan’s thought is keeping his foot on the pedal! So, he’s bringing his supercharged HEMI-powered classic Chevy to this week’s Sick On The Green, and it might be getting double class duty.

Finnegan is looking forward to Sick On The Green for more reason than just the racing. “I have never been to the waterpark (at Beech Bend Raceway Park),” said Finnegan. “And I haven’t rode the coaster in a while, so I’m excited to head back. Plus, I’m bringing the family with me.”

We’re less than three weeks away from Sick On The Green, May 29th through the 31st, 2025 at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Kentucky.

With the popular Lil Gangsta’s class with two separate days to win thousands of dollars, the Sick Street Car Challenge with over $30K up for grabs, plus seven more classes on the docket, who will take home their share of over $60K in payouts?

In addition to the six classes inspired by the former National Muscle Car Association (NMCA) and National Mustang Racers Association (NMRA) series, we’re adding the popular Lil Gangsta’s 5.30 No-Time class, the Sick Street Car Challenge, and a Stick Shift class Presented by Tremec Transmissions, to the line up in Kentucky!

With the recently completed Sick At The Rock event, the first smaller 2-3 day event format for Sick The Magazine, we found a group of enthusiasts that enjoyed a different format held at Rockingham Dragway.

As we prepare for our second smaller event, Sick On The Green at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Kentucky on May 29th through the 31st, new classes have been added to the roster, and the Lil Gangsta’s 5.30 class will get a second helping with a separate Friday race!

Hobbies can be a release from the stress of everyday life, something we enjoy with friends and family, and even, a way to cope and redirect your energy after dealing with bad times.

For Yvonnda Hutchins, her 2014 Chevrolet SS 4 door sedan has been a beacon of positivity on the drag strip, and a recent appearance at Sick At The Rock may expand that beacon a bit more.

For Yvonnda, her heartbreak left her needing an outlet to direct her focus and energy, and husband Alon provided the solution. “My husband told me I needed to find a hobby to keep my mind busy,” said Yvonnda. “He has drag raced for years, and we were at a race not long after my daughter’s passing, and my husband told me that I needed to try racing. I was apprehensive, but he was eventually able to convince me to try it, and I was hooked.”

There is a growing number of enthusiasts that prefer a manual transmission for their ride, and the racing community, as well as several events on the drag and drive calendar, have embraced this with a specific class.

Sick On The Green will join that list, as the 3-day event in Bowling Green, Kentucky will feature a Stick Shift class sponsored by Tremec Transmissions.

Tremec will also be onsite with their display trailer and several transmissions, as well as team members to discuss their products. “We are looking forward to being a part of Sick On The Green,” said Mike Kidd of Tremec. “Beech Bend Raceway Park is a great track, and I’m sure the competition will be exciting!”

Following the success of Sick At The Rock presented by Motion Raceworks, April 10-12th at Rockingham Dragway, Sick The Magazine will host our second smaller event, Sick On The Green, May 29th – 31st, 2025 at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Kentucky.

In addition to classes inspired by the former National Muscle Car Association / National Mustang Racers Association series, we will bring our new Sick Street Car Challenge class, as well as the popular Lil Gangsta’s 5.30 No-Time class, to Bowling Green, Kentucky!

This second Sick The Magazine smaller event of 2025 already boasts north of $60,000 in payouts, and following the results of our recently held event in North Carolina, we have high hopes for the Sick On The Green event. “We appreciate everyone that came out to Rockingham to be a part of Sick At The Rock,” said Tom Bailey. “We looked at results, listened to competitors, and made a few changes for our next event, Sick On The Green.”

Despite the popularity of Sick The Magazine’s week-long major drag and drive events, Tom Bailey toyed with the idea of doing a smaller 2-3 day event format, with a shorter drive / cruise for street car-based classes, more categories with good payouts, and some additional classes to round out the event.

That idea, combined with some of the classes from the defunct National Muscle Car Association (NMCA) and National Mustang Racers Association (NMRA) series, has morphed into a pair of 3-day Sick The Mag events. The latest one, Sick On The Green, being held May 29th – 31st, 2025, is now open for registration!

The second Sick The Mag 3-day event of 2025, Sick On The Green, boasting over $60,000 in payouts, lands at the popular Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In addition to the popular Lil Gangsta’s class for a $10K payout, and Sick The Mag’s newest class, the Sick Street Car Challenge with over $30K in payouts, five popular classes will complete the list for Sick On The Green’s racing activities.

The class line-up includes:

- Small Tire Pro Stock: a 7-second naturally aspirated quarter-mile class on a 10.5" width slick.

- Coyote Stock: Ford cars with factory sealed Coyote crate engines and manual transmissions, on a 28 x 10.5" width slick tire, stick shifting to wheelies and 9-second times.

- Street Race 8.60 Index: Street cars and trucks vying in side-by-side competition, on an 8.60-second quarter-mile index, with a mandatory cruise.

- Open Comp: Cars and trucks in the 7-14 second range, quarter-mile competition format, using commonly accepted Open Comp class rules.

- Nostalgia Super Stock / Nostalgia Muscle Car Combo: 1955-1985 period-correct nostalgia cars in the 8-15 second range, on a quarter-mile distance, big and small tire cars (Nostalgia Super Stock), and small tire cars (Nostalgia Muscle Car).

- The Sick Street Car Challenge: a two-day drag and drive format (Friday May 30th and Saturday May 31st), competing on an eighth-mile distance, where street legal machines will battle for $32,000 in prize money across over two-dozen categories, with the ability to stack more than one category for huge payouts!

- Lil Gangsta’s 5.30 No-Time: a class that combines a $10,000 winner-take-all payout with a no time slips / scoreboards off format to keep the competition interesting. The class is based around a 4-tenths pro tree, a 5.30 index on the eighth-mile, and a small tire format.

After three seasons of hosting successful drag and drive events, Sick The Magazine expanded into stand alone events in 2025 with Sick At The Rock and Sick On The Green. Both events will feature 15 different classes of racing, plus over $100,000 of guaranteed payout.

Tom Bailey looked at the news of the National Muscle Car Association (NMCA) and National Mustang Racers Association (NMRA) closing their doors in October 2024, as well as his experience, and saw an opportunity to give back to the community. “With the announcement of the NMCA/NMRA, I couldn’t help but think that there were thousands of racers that had planned on racing that series in 2025,” said Tom.

The first of the two events, Sick At The Rock, takes place at the legendary Rockingham Dragway on April 10th-12th, 2025. Street machines and race cars will come together for an action-packed three days of racing and fun, with up to fifteen different classes of cars, including the 3,000+ horsepower Big Dog Pro Mods class!