A drag and drive isn’t your typical event, it’s organic, and it constantly changes and evolves each day racers hit the track. Hot Rod Drag Week started the drag and drive craze 20 years ago, and it still produces exciting outcomes year after year. We followed the traveling circus that is Drag Week this year. The epic battles we were treated to as racers fought to survive and bring home a class victory was totally worth it.
Daily Updates: Day Zero, Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four, Day Five.
Unlimited Class Madness
The Unlimited Class is where you typically find the most radical rides of Drag Week. Six-second passes and averages are the norm here, but there’s also a high volume of mechanical failures. In 2024, the failures happened early and often to the top contenders, and that turned the class upside down.
David Schroeder and his nitrous-fed Corvette fell victim to mechanical gremlins first. The big-block Chevy that powers Schroeder’s Corvette devoured its street-trim rocker arms, thus ending his week before the second day of racing began.
Ned Dunphy’s radical 2013 Dodge Viper looked like it was poised to snatch the Unlimited class and Overall quickest Drag Week crown when racing began on Day One. The Viper ripped off a 6.19 pass at National Trail Raceway and made it look easy. Day Two started rough for Dunphy when metal was found in the engine’s oil, and some valvetrain parts needed to be replaced. Dunphy and his co-pilot got the car fixed and ripped off a 6.20 pass at Indy. When Day Three rolled around, Dunphy was nowhere to be found at US 131 Motorsports Park. During the drive to the track, Dunphy’s engine experienced catastrophic failure, ending his Drag Week.
Les Smith’s 2011 Camaro was making its first appearance on the road at Drag Week 2024 in the Unlimited Class. The car was definitely green and gave Smith some fits, but he was able to record a pair of six-second passes. Smith fought his way through the week and finished, this earned him the Unlimited Class title.
An Ultimate Battle In Ultimate Iron
The chaos in the Unlimited Class opened the door for the racers in the Ultimate Iron class to have a shot at the quickest overall title of Drag Week. Bryant Goldstone, Alex Taylor, and Steven Spiess broke away from the pack in Unlimited Iron and had a dandy of a Drag Week fight. In the end, Goldstone won the Ultimate Iron class and was the quickest overall competitor in drag week with his 6.671 average, followed by…
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