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Drag Week Monday Video: Fear, Fun, and Frustration

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HOT ROD Drag Week 2017, powered by Dodge and presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive

Each day of Drag Week is a drama, times 400. There are 400 cars with millions of ways they may or may never finish Drag Week. Will the car break at the track? Can it be fixed? Will it make it the almost 300 miles to the next drag strip—in the case of Day 1, that strip being Gateway Motorsports Park? Will there be enough time at the end of the day for sleep? A shower? It’s an insane week of fear, fun, and frustration. We captured just a few highlights of Day 1 at Cordova, and as we trekked from Cordova to Gateway, we gathered more shots of what we encountered to give you just a snapshot of Day 1 of Drag Week 2017. We saw racers seamlessly adjusting their cars from strip-ready to street-ready. We encountered breakdowns in an array of severity—taxing both cars and drivers. We followed Drag Week’s first nitro-powered entrant as he blitzed through Illinois. Being the first day spirits are high—except for those at Cordova experiencing problems they need to overcome before the 3:00 closure of the track. See what we saw on the road for Day 1 of 2017 Drag Week.

Les Smith’s 1967 Nova is hard to miss on the highway. He’s cruising after running an 8.64 in Cordova.
Daniel Boshears piloted Finnegan’s Blasphemi Gasser on much of the first day’s drive.
We missed Addie Ross in 2016. She’s back with her 1963 Nova wagon, quicker than ever.

This Plymouth VIP, the entry from Finland rolled into the second checkpoint with a malfunctioning cooling fan. The secondary fan was still operational and they were able to continue the drive.
This efficiently packed trailer even includes a spare driveshaft.

The Green Go Challenger SRT Hellcat loaned to us by Dodge chewed up the highway miles with ease.


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