Jason Sack has participated in three Hot Rod Drag Week events, with his best result being the 2021 event where he averaged a 7.33 to finish second in Unlimited behind David Schroeder.

Great Bend, the owner of the track, has hired a consultant and engineer who are investigating the recently constructed track surface and will be furnishing a report.

The legendary track, known to some as ‘Thunder Mountain’, first opened in 1958 and has hosted an NHRA national event since 1980.

After a couple years away from drag-and-drive, Steven Dalton tried his hand at a new event, Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0. “I averaged a 10.35, with a best pass of 10.06 at 140 mph. I've never ran a single digit pass with the car before, and Sick Week seems like a pretty good place to do it!”

“Between those two cars, they’ve probably been side by side more than any other pair of cars out there that race Drag Week. But we have yet to ever have clean passes next to each other.” - Joe Barry

The fourth drag-and-drive event of the 2023 season – Cruise & Lose – will visit Kearney Race Park and Raceway Park of the Midlands for a three-day weekend.

“My number 1 goal was to complete the week. It's a racing event, but racing isn't the event. It's one big week of cool fast cars doing their thing and going on a grand adventure of a road trip.”

“It’s a friendly rivalry, but we’re both competitive people,” Brett LaSala admits. “So, we want to win, or be quicker and faster than the other.”

This 1969 Camaro project had been sitting for a few years, but got back underway in September 2022 with the goal of participating in Rocky Mountain Race Week in 2023.

“We will compete in both Rocky Mountain Race Week and Race Week again. The goal is to take it all; the whole package: overall win, Unlimited class win, and the shootout.”

Combining two days of racing action, plus just shy of 200 miles of street driving and a car show, The Circuit is the brainchild of Drag-and-Drive.com’s own Michael Narx.

Rockingham Dragway has features not seen at most tracks, including a crossover bridge for the staging lanes, and a unique platform at the top of the left lane side grandstands, which was used during the NMCA / NMRA event for hosting a car show.

The new Factory X class, designed to bridge the gap between the NHRA’s current Factory Stock Showdown class and the Pro Stock class, has generated a lot of interest. That interest included Geoff Turk, who contracted B & B Race Cars to put the bigger, better and faster version of the original Blackbird Challenger together, the first Factory Stock Showdown car to clock a 7-second pass in competition.

With the Spring version of the Southeast Street-N-Yeet Presented by Motion Raceworks just completed, now the attention turns to the fall version of the popular North Carolina and South Carolina street and track event.

Take a desired supercar, the Lamborghini Gallardo, and swapping it with a Cummins twin-turbocharged diesel engine?

“The last time the (2001 Mustang) was out was in 2018.” Life happened, and with both brothers have families and kids, they decided to tear down the orange Mustang and focus on safety. “After 2022 Hot Rod Drag Week, I told Dave I was ready to wiggle our way up the Sick Week list, and it was time to resurrect the orange car.”

The show starts Friday at Mo-Kan Dragway, then Saturday will find the participants driving between 150 to 180 miles, with a car show or cruise night destination in mind. Sunday will bring the tour back to Mo-Kan Dragway for at least two more passes per participant.

“These events are the ultimate test of man and machine and that’s what drives me. The sense of accomplishment when you finish the week is SO satisfying!”

There are an increasing number of unique vehicles that attend drag-and-drive events, and Jaren Niewinski’s 1987 Chrysler Town and County wagon definitely fits the category.

With all the new technology and updates available in the performance and restoration market, it’s cool to see a build that sports old school looks and an engine bay to match.