Drag Week 2017: Wednesday On the Road – Good Weather and Good Times!

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

Talk to Drag Week veterans and soon enough previous years hot summer days will come up, so it’s been noteworthy that the 2017 Drag Week weather has been superb. With the cooler temps the air is thicker, which makes for quicker times, and we’re seeing that. Also track prep at Cordova, Gateway and now Byron has been awesome, which also helps. On Day 1, 11 cars were in the 7-second range. As of the end of today there are nine cars averaging in the 7s. Need we say it’s unbelievable that these street cars are averaging in the 7s? Also, 38 cars are averaging in the 8s. The bad news? 61 cars are now officially out, and that number is sure to go higher as cars take a pounding at the strip and a beating on the road—but that’s Drag Week, right? Along the route from Byron, Illinois, to Great Lakes in Wisconsin, we passed a number of cars with broken rockers or broken valve springs, so at least for today valve train woes were a common malady. If you can’t come out to one of the Drag Week venues, slip on over to the daily live stream to see all of the action remaining at Great Lakes and then Friday at Cordova. The weather predictions are for fair weather so no rainouts or unbearable heat, making for possibly the fastest Drag Week ever.