Drag-N-Drive News 12/16/2023 presented by Summit Racing

Welcome to the Drag-N-Drive News presented by Summit Racing.

Drag-N-Drive Addiction updates

The Show and News and other Live Streams will now be live to Instagram as well! This is huge news as it opens us up to a whole new group of followers! 

While at PRI, we surpassed 90k Followers on IG, YT, FB and TikTok! As of this morning, we have passed 92k!!

We are working on some cool things for the website! Expect a few things to begin to roll out in January. 

Podcast News: We are loading PRI interviews to the podcast as well. Expect to see 1-2 posted per day for the next several days. Thank you to the followers over there, we need your help though, we need some reviews to help get pushed further into the mix. 

Hot Rod Pod

Lohnes, Freiburger and John McGann hosting

Ring Brothers were first guests

34:00 - Waterbed story - double floor pan, convertible car, full of water

37:00 - The Winnabego story

Dragzine’s THE HOTTEST DRAG CAR OF THE '23 PRI SHOW - Facebook Vote

Alan Whitaker - went to the Quarter Finals - 

Brian Havlik - Went to the Quarter Finals

Redwood Rally - Holden Torana that was shipped to US from Australia to compete in the 2024 Redwood Rally

Bailey’s Durango was selected but sadly didnt make it past first round. 

Drag and Drive Events in 2024

Midwest Drags opens Public Registration tomorrow at 1pm EST

31 events

New Events for 2024: 

Big Sky Race Week

Central Victorian Drag & Drive #2

Road Trip Drag Challenge 5 Dayer

Hardass 1000

Drop the Hammer

Sick 66 replacing Death Week

We are still very early in the process and expect many events to be added - Tommy at Summit guessed 42, Eric guessed 48 and I say 53 - What is your vote?

Here are the current event maps - we are working on something special that will make it easier to navigate but it’s not going to be ready for a few weeks. 

Sweet Patina Built for Drag-N-Drive

Sweet Patina sponsored the Built for Drag-N-Drive segment back in 2022 because they believe cars should be driven

Dustin and Steve Trance and the 2005 Ford Mustang is our Built for Drag-N-Drive feature for this week! These guys purpose built this car to go 8.50 racing. Every piece and part has been selected to do the job at hand. 

They are the only team to win the 8.50 Three Times

They are the only team to do it back to back to back

They reset the Hot Rod Drag Week ET Record this year at 8.5048 Average

One of Three racers to run a perfect ET in the class - 8.500

Turbo LS with TH400 and 8.8 Rear axle

First team to run an 8.50x everyday

Use code DND57 on sweetpatina.com

Howards Cams Comedy

Howards Cams is the Official Valvetrain of Drag-N-Drive Addiction. Make sure to reach out to Luke B for your next upgrade. 

New Format for 2024

Howards Cams will have a segment on the Drag-N-Drive Show

We have a few new segments coming because of new sponsors coming on board for the 2024 season!