Sick Week!

Been following the build up and racing, looks like a good do so far. Really like the max 1 second RT rule so everything looks like a race, makes it a lot more interesting than the usual power tours.

Can you explain that and how it differs from normal drag racing?

The (now slightly worse for wear) 2312whp black Chevy Nova was built, and is being driven by Stefan Rossi, an expat from the midlands. ACE Racing Engines

Started out building/racing aircooled VWs in the UK then moved out to the US in 2019 to set up an engine shop out there. Still builds high spec aircooled motors, and now V8s.

He blew a radiator hose on his first run Bradenton and got a bit sideways at 150mph+. Kissed the walls, but no structural damage. They've nursed the car to Gainesville and are still in the event.

I've tried to keep it succinct but it doesn't seem to be working lol. There are 2 methods of Christmas tree actuation in drag racing, for Sick Week they're using a Pro Tree which means the green light turns on .400 of a second after the 3 Amber lights go off. The time difference between the green light coming on and the car breaking the start line beam is the reaction time. As the winner of a drag race is decided by the whoever has the lowest overall time if you add the reaction time and the E.T together, for competitive racing you obviously want to be launching the car as close to the green light coming on as possible

As Drag and Drive events aren't competitive racing (2 cars running but not against each other) there was no need for people to get a good/low reaction time, and therefore you often got cars sitting on the start line with the green light lit for 10, 20, even 30 seconds before launching down the track. It makes the racing very disjointed as the cars rarely run side by side, and also makes the day a lot longer as what should be a race that lasts maybe a minute from burnout to pulling off the end of the track is suddenly twice as long. For Sick Week they've therefore put a limit that you have to launch the car within 1 second of the green light coming on for the pass to count, so even though both cars are not racing per se, it looks more like a race and the event can run quicker.

I know what you're saying stealthstylz, but it always makes me smile when they say you're not racing the car in the next lane, but the clock
It's just what they used to say at the RWYB's at the pod.
When that light goes green, how many drivers are not competing against the car next to them? 😁

I've been watching Vice Grip Garage's coverage of their Sick week experience, looks like a cool event, the Roadkill guys were there and filming too so might see that on Amazon in about 6 months or so 😂

Are there enough drag strips left in the UK to do something similar here?..

To be fair in Sweden you don't always stop drag racing when not at venues

Thanks for the info, looks like something that would be a good road trip from the UK

You kind of answered your own question really. You just end up driving back and forth between Santa Pod and Melbourne Raceway.

I looked at if something like this could be arranged before over here, but now days there isn't the volume of venues, sadly.

It'd be more of a challenge over here as you'd only have one prepped track, one no prep but decent surface track and 2 that are on bare runways as far as I know. Would probably put most off. I think I'd prefer to do a multi discipline drag/circuit sprint/top speed/ type event as that would be a bit more inclusive.

Pod Day 1
Elvington Day 2
Melbourne Day 3
Cadwell Day 4
Pod Day 5

Wouldnt be a ton of street driving but enough to prove Street car Ness.