We first reported on Concho Valley Dragway’s concept in April, and just 34 days after ground-breaking, the track surface had been poured in concrete, and the return road, pit area and staging lanes has also been completed in asphalt.

Kevin Schweizer chose a different car for his efforts with a 1980 Mercury wagon, and he also skipped past traditional Ford options, instead landed on one of Ford’s newest engines, the 7.3L Godzilla pushrod engine. This not only allowed him to run the all-Ford NMRA series, including their popular True Street class, but also take part in the Godzilla Invasion special classes at the recent Norwalk event.

A week has passed since Motion Raceworks Sick Summer and my body has almost totally healed while my brain is making steady progress and should be back to forming whole thoughts very soon. Those checkpoint parties really took a toll! But I’m comforted by the words of the great philosopher Lucille Ball, who said: “I’d rather regret the things I have done than regret the things I haven’t done.” Sick Summer 2024 just raised the bar for drag-and-drive checkpoints, and I’m glad to have been amongst it.

One year ago, Travis Larson was riding high after attending the inaugural Sick Summer; compiling an 8.56 average to secure the Street Race 275 class win. But just three months later at a race during Labor Day weekend 2023, things took a turn for the worse.

Larry Larson has been absent from the drag-and-drive world for a decade - is his newest ride signaling his return to it?

“My first ever drag-and-drive was Sick Summer 2023, when my husband Jerry Konstatos put us with my 1987 Cutlass, “She Gone” on the waiting list. As luck would have it, we got in, and survived in the Dial-Your Own (DYO) Class D. I made top 100 to earn my place for 2024.”

The Diehl brothers and Chris Merry appeared to be ready for Sick Summer 2024, but they decided that a little tune-up was needed. So they popped into a Street Car Takeover event at US 131 Motorsports Park, held just one day before registration and tech day at Sick Summer.

The trophy matters. It can be a standard award store trophy, or a 6-foot-tall check, but the cool thing is you get to have something to recall the experience and the memories. The money comes and goes, but the awards, trophies, memories and friendships are what to reflect on.

So what is “The Sickest Of The Sick” award? Just like the definition of a street car, it could have many different meanings to many different people. What I’ve had explained to me is this: it is who best embodies the spirit of a drag-and-drive.

Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks finished just two days before Father’s Day. It made us a little more award of the fathers and sons, as well as the fathers and daughters that spent a week making memories, so we’re highlighting some of them today!

Motion Raceworks Sick Summer wrapped up on Friday at Byron Dragway with Bryant Goldstone securing his second straight overall win for the event.

Motion Raceworks Sick Summer will enter its last day with several classes on the line in what promises to be an exciting conclusion to the Midwest’s biggest drag-and-drive event.

The top three of the Motion Raceworks Sick Summer leaderboard remained unchanged following day three at Tri-State Raceway, just outside of Earlville, Iowa.

Bryant Goldstone retained his lead after a long day at Cordova Dragway, making four passes during the second stop of Motion Raceworks Sick Summer.

Bryant Goldstone and Garrett Mitchell (AKA Cleetus McFarland) turned in uber-quick six-second runs on the opening day of Motion Raceworks Sick Summer at Byron Dragway to lead their classes and the overall chase.

Motion Raceworks Sick Summer is underway. Hundreds of spectators joined the party at Byron Dragway for tech and testing on Sunday, June 9. Sick The Magazine photographer Wayne Stewart was on site to capture the action.

The Midwest’s biggest horsepower party has begun with Motion Raceworks Sick Summer teching and testing at Byron Dragway today.

Thanks to our awesome designer Garrett Olsen, each and every track on Sick Summer Presented by Motion Raceworks has a limited edition t-shirt. Today, we reveal Day 5, and the overall theme. The only way to get these shirts is on site at each track on each day!

Some are tested and ready days, or even weeks in advance for this week’s Sick Summer event, while others are still busting their knuckles to make the 1 p.m. deadline to arrive in tech line to be able to compete. From last-minute turn signal wiring, to pulling out a transmission with the final hours ticking away, this is what we’ve seen on last minute work to get into competition.

Despite the lack of sleep and another year of thrashing, Jeff Kurczak is looking forward to spending time with his family on Sick Summer. Jeff will be piloting his Godzilla-powered ‘93 Mustang, while his son will wheel an ‘80 Fairmont. For daughter Aly Kurczak, she will participate as a competitor on her first drag-and-drive ever, after riding with Jeff on last year’s Sick Summer.