The alarm goes off before sunrise. The car still smells like hot oil and race fuel from the night before. Tools are scattered across the hotel parking lot, hands are sore, and coffee is mandatory. In a few hours, the same car that just barely survived a brutal 150-mile cruise down public highways the night before will be ripping another pass at the next drag strip. This is Sick Week, presented by Tom Bailey’s Sick The Magazine.
And in 2026, EG Nation is heading straight into the middle of it—not as a competitor, but as a storyteller. I’m committing to covering Sick Week from start to finish, capturing what makes this event unlike anything else in motorsports. Though I’m not lining up in the staging lanes, I will be in a pretty stock-looking 2016 Dodge Charger from R&D with a few extra ponies under the hood to keep up with the pack between tracks. Don’t worry, Edelbrock Group will also have two techs (Jeremy and Dallas) onsite at each track, along with some parts that people always seem to need but don’t have.
This isn’t just another event on the calendar. Sick Week is one of the most demanding drag‑and‑drive competitions in motorsports, and it represents the kind of real‑world challenge that Edelbrock Group brands were built for. Five days. Multiple tracks. Hundreds of miles of public‑road driving. No haulers. No excuses.
What Is Sick Week?
For the uninitiated, Sick Week is a week‑long endurance drag racing event that pushes cars, parts, and people to their limits. Competitors race at a different drag strip each day, then drive their cars—on public roads—to the next track. The same car that makes a full pull down the strip in the morning has to survive highway miles, traffic, weather, and whatever mechanical curveballs the week throws its way.
There are no tow rigs hiding around the corner. If your car breaks, you fix it. If it rains, you drive through it. If something fails at midnight in a hotel parking lot, that parking lot becomes your shop. It’s raw, unforgiving, and honest—and that’s exactly why it matters.
What We’re Doing
The answer to why we are going to Sick Week is simple. Drag and drivers are OUR people. Our products are designed for enthusiasts who actually use them—who drive their cars, race them, and rely on them far from the safety of a trailer. Sick Week embodies that reality in its purest form.
At Edelbrock Group, a large core of our employees are also performance enthusiasts. We are racers, hot rodders, off-roaders, boaters, bikers, and everything in between. Our industry, and our company, is based on passion. We don’t have to build the parts we make — we want to build them. We support the like-minded crazy people who are out there pushing the limits of possibility, and that’s why Edelbrock is a proud sponsor of all the Sick events.
Covering Sick Week from the inside lets us tell the story as it unfolds to the EG Nation. Five consecutive days of racing expose weaknesses quickly. Components are subjected to sustained abuse, engines are asked to perform repeatedly without teardown, and drivetrains must balance brutal launches with hours of highway cruising. Our role is to document that reality honestly, from the triumphs to the thrashes, and bring it back to the enthusiasts who live for this kind of challenge.
Documenting the Real Test
While we won’t be racing, EG Nation will be embedded in the event from day one, following competitors as they fight through five relentless days of racing and road miles. From early-morning staging lanes to late-night parking lot repairs, we’ll be there to capture the moments that define Sick Week.
That means tracking how real-world combinations survive repeated track passes, how parts perform after hundreds of highway miles, and how racers adapt when something inevitably goes wrong. It’s the kind of insight you can’t get from a single pass or a controlled test environment. By telling these stories as they happen, we’re highlighting the durability, ingenuity, and determination that this community is built on.
What You’ll See at Sick Week
Throughout the week, our coverage will follow a cross-section of the Sick Week field. That includes street-driven Drag and Drive staples like Ultimate Iron and Ultimate Aluminum competitors, as well as high-horsepower combinations in Ultimate Forced Induction and Pro Street/Pro Mod-style builds that blur the line between race car and street machine. We’ll also spend time with true daily-driven entries—cars that may not top the leaderboard, but embody the original spirit of drag-and-drive racing by simply surviving the week under their own power.
In addition to documenting the event from the outside, EG Nation will also have a unique inside look. A couple of Sick Week competitors will be working with us throughout the week, offering behind-the-scenes insight into what it really takes to compete. From early-morning prep and between-round decisions to late-night repairs and hard-earned victories, their firsthand perspective will help tell the full story of life inside the pressure cooker of Sick Week.
The Human Side of Sick Week
What truly separates Sick Week from other motorsports events isn’t just the format—it’s the people. Racers lend tools to competitors they just lined up against. Strangers crawl under cars together in dimly lit parking lots. Stories are swapped over late‑night food runs and early‑morning drivers’ meetings, bonded by shared exhaustion and mutual respect.
EG Nation is proud to be part of that culture. Representing Edelbrock Group at Sick Week means more than chasing elapsed times. It means talking tech, answering questions, and connecting with enthusiasts who live the same passion we do—people who value parts that perform when it matters most.
Expect the Unexpected
Sick Week never goes exactly as planned. Weather changes. Parts fail. Schedules shift. Sleep becomes optional. That unpredictability is the point.
It forces teams to adapt, to problem‑solve under pressure, and to keep moving forward no matter what the week delivers. Every mile driven and every pass made is earned the hard way.
Follow the Journey
As Sick Week 2026 unfolds, EG Nation will be there from tech day to the final pass, sharing the experience as it happens. From sunrise staging lanes to midnight thrashes, we hope to bring you a firsthand look at what it takes to survive—and succeed—at one of the toughest events in motorsports.
One week. Multiple tracks. Thousands of miles. Real street cars.
EG Nation is going Sick—and we wouldn’t have it any other way. Stay tuned. Follow our Facebook and Instagram pages throughout the week!
And in case you missed it, check out our coverage from Sick Smokies back in October! All of the photos you see here were from Sick Smokies.
