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Sep 13, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Andrew Wolf

    Brian Acton Is Betting Everything on a Naturally Aspirated Big-Block at Drag Week (opens the original)

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    Brian Acton abandoned a proven combo for a bold new challenge, for just one. Brian Acton spent two years plotting a one-race departure from the combination that made his 1970 Chevrolet Nova one of drag-and-drive racing's most successful Street Race machines, and at the 2026 HOT ROD Drag Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive, its turbocharged LS will be replaced by a borrowed 598-cubic-inch, naturally aspirated big-block for a lone venture. The change targets the event Acton has yet to win, fo

  2. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Andrew Wolf

    The Dumbest Drag Week Build Ever Might Also Be the Most Brilliant (opens the original)

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    How a 150-mph Geo Tracker became Drag Week’s most beloved underdog. Most people would see a Geo Tracker and write it off as little more than the low-cost, disposable econobox it was designed to be. The Tracker disappeared from American roads years ago with little ceremony, and they’re rarely seen today. But Vinnie Barbone is a different breed of enthusiast. He saw the possibility to build not only something quick, because plenty of racers can do that, but something nobody else would have, someth

  3. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Andrew Wolf

    Nick Cryer Built the Ultimate Drag-and-Drive ’33 Ford Coupe (opens the original)

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    From Divco milk truck to 7.00s: Nick Cryer’s wild ’33 Ford. After four seasons campaigning the family’s now-famous 1963 Divco milk truck through HOT ROD Drag Week and Sick events, Nick Cryer knew two things: He genuinely loved drag-and-drive racing, and eventually he was going to need a faster car. The very trick 1933 Ford coupe he unveiled in 2025 was the answer to that realization. The wheelstanding, patinaed “milk truck” Nick campaigned with his father became one of the most recognizable vehi

  4. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Andrew Wolf

    She Grew Up Changing Clutches, and Now She’s Top Fuel’s Breakout Rookie (opens the original)

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    How Hard Work, Wrenches, and Family Helped Make Maddi Gordon NHRA’s Newest Top Fuel Star At a time when NHRA Top Fuel Dragster and Funny Car seats are largely occupied by self-funded drivers or those bringing major sponsorship backing to the table, true hired guns have become increasingly rare. That reality is part of what makes Maddi Gordon’s rise to the top of the sport resonate so strongly, having earned the opportunity the old-fashioned way through years of driving, wrenching, and helping su

  5. Article · Aug 17, 2026 · Andrew Wolf

    Inside the 3,000-HP Big-Block Chevy Rewriting Street Car Rules (opens the original)

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    What started as a weeklong endurance showcase has become a horsepower arms race, and PAR Race Engines is one of the builders reshaping the battlefield with race-bred big-blocks. Standing at Kansas City International Raceway in September 2005 for the inaugural running of HOT ROD Drag Week, not even the boldest of prognosticators could have dreamed what drag-and-drive vehicles would one day become capable of. That history-making week 21 years ago, Carl Scott won the overall title in his 1967 Chevr

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