Tag: hot rod drag week
Drag Week 2017 – Day 0 Highlights!
Hot Rod Drag Week is back in FULL swing for 2017! Starting at Cordova International Raceway we pulled up to a PACKED raceway overflowing with Die Hard Street Cars piloted by Die Hard Racers! We…
Drag Week 2017 – Day 1 Highlights!
Hot Rod Drag Week 2017 has OFFICIALLY begun with the start of Day 1 at Cordova International Raceway outside Cordova, IL. The struggles of competing are only the beginning, as each racer has to drive…
Drag Week 2017 – Day 2 Highlights!
Continuing our Coverage of Hot Rod Drag Week 2017, We find out what cars have fallen to the Insanity of this TRUE Street competition! Traveling from Cordova International Raceway to Gateway Motorsports Park is a…
Drag Week 2017 – Day 3 Highlights!
Hot Rod Drag Week 2017 is far from over as we enter Day 3 coverage from Byron Dragway in Illinois! Breeching the threshold of a “Halfway Point”, many racers are still Truckin’ full speed ahead,…
Drag Week 2017 – Day 4 Highlights!
Coverage from Hot Rod’s “Drag Week 2017” continues with ride alongs and driver check ins, as they make their way from Byron Dragway in Illinois, to Union Grove, Wisconsin! Creeping up on the last few…
Drag Week 2017 – Day 5 Highlights!
The 1000 MILE ROAD TRIP is over! The results are in! Bringing Drag Week 2017 to a close, we arrive at Cordova International Raceway for Day 5 of the racing action! (Final results = http://st.hotrod.com/uploads/sites/21/2017/09/HRDW-Friday-PM-5.pdf)…
TINY Geo Tracker – BIG TURBOS! (454 Chevy Small Block LOL)
PROJECT SAMSQUANCH – A Geo Tracker with a parachute, will NEVER get old to us! This is one of those cars thats just so out there, that we had to laugh before finding out more!…
Turbo Cars Should FEAR This Man – Drag Week 2017 CHAMP!
After 1000 MILES OF DRIVING – Putting Nitrous Cars Back on the Map! This C2 Chevrolet Corvette took on Drag Week 2017 and showed Turbo Cars they aren’t always the best! Nitrous cars have always…
The Van You Wish Your Mom Had!
This is in so many ways, the van many of us wish Chrysler produced as a kid and our mom’s would have had in the garage! Imagine how many of us would have received even…
2,000hp ROAD TRIP (1,000 Miles – NO Trailer!)
Driving over 2,000 miles from Wembley, Alberta (in Western Canada) just to compete in Drag Week 2017 (where you have to drive another 1,000 miles in your racecar) is a sign of more than just…
Drag Racing on 26 inch RIMS – WTF?!
This was not something we expected to see while driving through the pits of Hot Rod’s Drag Week 2017, and for obvious reasons it caught us very off guard! Alan Robinson had alternative plans for…
They Were BORED with LS’s! – NEW World Record!
Our friend Doug Cook and his team over at Motion Raceworks really decided to push the envelope on this build, but in the most laid back way! Instead of chasing the record for a platform…
1200hp in a Ratchet BARN FIND – The Dirty 30!
Cutting a PERFECT Light in the Dirty 30! Nick Plewniak brought something new to the table this year, a 1930 Plymouth sedan he dug out of it’s grave in a barn over a year ago!…
