200 MPH Street Cars – Who Has Reached the 200 Miles Per Hour Mark While Completing a Drag and Drive Event?
Although it’s easy to focus on the elapsed times and who wins classes at events, the big speeds are also an indication of how far racing, and power levels, have come in the last couple decades.
And although it took until the fifth annual Hot Rod Drag Week in 2009 before someone broke the mark, the next five years witnessed four more competitors join the 200 MPH club.
In ten years of Hot Rod Drag Week competition, five different competitors exceeded the 200 MPH mark. We’ll follow up with part two of the 200 MPH club shortly, and see how many more rides can hit the magic speed mark.
High Fives – Tom Bailey Sets New Speed Record in Route to Capturing Peak Street Car Shootout Victory at Route 66 NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway
Once a year, the National Hot Rod Association visits Joliet, Illinois and Route 66 Raceway for their Gerber Collision and Glass Route 66 NHRA Nationals presented by PEAK Performance.
Part of this event is the PEAK Street Car Shootout, showcasing some of the quickest rides in the drag and drive community, and for the third year in 2025, eight contestants rolled into Illinois to determine the champion.
Leading the eight rides would be the defending champion Schroder-Ens team, with David Schroeder at the wheel of the nitrous-fed C7 Corvette. 2023 event winner Bryant Goldstone returned at the wheel of his ’73 AMC Javelin, looking for a second title in three years.
The remaining six spots included Tom Bailey with the ‘Sick Seconds 2.0’ 1969 Camaro, Craig Groebner and his twin-turbo ’71 Chevrolet Nova, Alex Taylor’s ’55 Chevrolet, the ’82 Camaro of Nick Taylor, Tom McGilton and his 2013 Camaro, and the lone naturally-aspirated ride, the ’85 Ford Mustang of Ed Ensor.
A Fresh Look and New Goals for ‘Sick Seconds 2.0’ – We Look Back at the ’69 Camaro That Made Drag-and-Drive History, as Bailey Preps for 2025
Hot Rod Magazine’s Fastest Street Car Shootout in 1992 was the first event to point the spotlight at dual purposes cars that could survive the street, as well as lay down impressive numbers on the track. Over a decade later, drag-and-drive got its start at Hot Rod Drag Week in 2005, taking a page from that iconic 1992 event and expanding on it.
Looking back at history can give us a clearer picture of what the future may hold, and that ideal plays into the most recent update on Tom Bailey’s ‘Sick Seconds 2.0’ ’69 Camaro, as Bailey will debut it with the fresh look at this week’s Performance & Racing Industry (PRI) show in Indianapolis, Indiana in the Gear Vendors Overdrive booth.
Go Inside a 5-Second Drag-and-Drive Engine, As Steve Morris Engines Freshens Up the SMX for Tom Bailey’s ‘Sick Seconds 2.0’ 1969 Camaro
With the 20th running of Hot Rod Drag Week less than three weeks away, Tom Bailey had plans to send the SMX engine from the 'Sick Seconds 2.0' Camaro to Steve Morris Engines to get inspected and freshened up.
The fix for ‘Sick Seconds 2.0’ chassis is a question mark; would the engine get a clean bill of health?
The Second Sick the Mag Drag-And-Drive Shootout of 2024 Fires Up this Weekend at the NMCA All-American Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio
The 2024 drag-and-drive season has moved past the halfway point, and also been featured in a few racing series as well. One of those is the National Muscle Car Association, and the second Sick the Mag Drag-and-Drive Shootout for 2024 will take place at this week’s Mickey Thompson NMCA All-American Nationals at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.
Tom is ‘Throwing In The Towel’ – Big Changes and a BIG Test Session Coming Up
“Sick Seconds 2.0 got put on the back burner for us to get the Dodge Durango and everything else ready. Just too many projects, only one fab guy.”