I was at the first Hot Rod Drag Week in 2005. Carl Scott winning the deal with the nitrous car, Larson putting the little pulley on it to haul ass on the last day, a 1,000 mile trip to nowhere in one direction. I figured it was as good as it got and that would be the last time a group of lunatic fringe hot rodders would ever do something like that again. Boy, did I misjudge the lunatics.

We all know Sick Week is going to be crazy, but what if you could have a chance at an entry without having to battle the crowds?

What happens when you combined two beloved coupes from different sides of the globe? Awesomeness happens.

This Datsun 260Z is owned by Julian Hofmann, and was built by Eric Sanchez’s Light Speed and Fab LLC shop in New Salisbury, Indiana. There the classic Japanese styling was paired up with modern American horsepower for a ridiculously fun car. Corvette meets Z, sounds like a match made in heaven to us.

The Dodge Shadow (and its fetchingly-named sibling, the Plymouth Sundance) were first produced in 1986, and though they lacked the muscle car looks, they were surprisingly quick. Factory turbocharged models were cutting 0-60mph times in the mid-sevens, putting them on pace with the five-liter Ford Mustangs of the same era. They were no slugs.

Garrett Mitchell has taken his first overall drag-and-drive win with a commanding performance at Summit Midwest Drags 2022.

A rollercoaster day at Dragway 42 in Ohio saw spectacular moments and a high level of carnage on the track, as Midwest Drags entered its penultimate stage.

The overall lead of Summit Midwest Drags changed hands on day two of the event, as Garrett Mitchell guided the Mullet El Camino to its quickest drag-and-drive passes yet.

Summit Midwest Drags day one is in the books, as teams struggled with a racing surface that was hung over from the monsoon rains overnight.

The summer of drag-and-drive is here, with Summit Midwest Drags locked and loaded for its third running.

Day two of the Carolina Drag Cruise at Ware Shoals Dragway saw the contest for overall honors take some interesting twists and turns, as a challenging track surface and the drive section itself took a toll.

As temperatures soared into the mid-nineties, Carolina Drag Cruise competitors conquered a hot track at Greer Dragway.

When the first competitors in the Carolina Drag Cruise hit the track, they will be part of a field that is four times larger than when the event took place last year.

Adam Crego is a staple of Rocky Mountain Race Week competition, having attended almost every event in his dark blue ’68 Nova.

They were able to weld it up, throw a new steering rack in, and finish the week out with an 8.827 average.

“I dragged this truck out of a field and paid $500 for it. I’ve had it going on 13 years. It doesn’t matter where you are, it draws people. They want to climb on it, take photos with it. It’s crazy.”

“It is a ridiculous shade of blue, people love it. You can’t go anywhere without someone saying my grandma had one of those. This car isn’t quite fast enough for some of the heads up stuff around so it fits into (drag-and-drive events) being a station wagon.”

“It’s not a car, it’s a truck.” That’s how Anthony McDowell starts off the conversation about his ‘67 C10 Chevy when we find him in the tech line at Midwest Drags. And what a truck it is.

Following the runaway success of Sick Week, presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive, Sick The Mag is planning to create the greatest drag racing event in history with the announcement of Sick Month.