Drag & Drive Awards 2024 presented by Summit Racing

Dec 12

Welcome to the Drag Drive Repeat Drag & Drive Awards presented by Summit Racing

Today we are going to award racers and participants of the Drag & Drive Community for their accomplishments during the 2024 season.

Summit Racing Equipment not only supports drag and drive events, they are also racers! They also bring their parts truck to several events per year, saving racers at each event! If the truck is not on site, they setup a drag and drive crew and special phone number to use as way to get needed parts.

2024 by the Numbers

Event Count - 37 (up from 27 in 2023)

Countries: US, Canada, Sweden, Australia, UK

Car Count - 4500+ (up from 2900 in 2023)

Tracks Visited - 97

What do we track and award?

For Drag Drive Repeat to track your event for these awards - Drag race, then drive at least 85 miles, then race again PLUS Event Standings determined by the Average of at least two passes at different times.

We then separate events into two categories. National Events are 4+ days of scheduled racing. Regional Events are 1-3 Days of scheduled racing - Single day events must have their racers make passes, then drive, then race again.

Heads Up style events certainly garner our attention and we help with promotion to drive people to the events but we don’t track their participation or standings for historical data.

Let’s get to the Drag & Drive Awards presented by Summit Racing

Summit Racing Ambassadors of Drag & Drive

These are racers that do more than just race, they bring new racers into the community through social media and in person conversations. They are the racers that promoters love to see because you know they are

Grabiak Family - Jeff Oppenheim - Rajveer Ahuja

Mahle Motorsport Toughest Roadside Repair

# of nominees - 47 submissions, 7 nominees

Honorable Mentions: Holly and Alex Rops (HERE) for their attempted swap of two engines at Texas Motorplex on RMRW. They weren’t able to repair the vehicles and continue but they have since finished Sick 66 in the SS.

Bryant Goldstone and Brian Robbins for their cylinder head repair at Drag Week.

Winner: Bob Gruber (HERE) for his parking lot rebuild at Sick Summer. My vote is really for us as a team and what Nick did to not only keep me in the competition but win the stick shift class at Sick Summer 24. On day two of Sick Summer, after running a personal best of 8.65, on the drive to Motion Checkpoint catastrophic valve train damage happened. The locating pin from the cam walked into the timing gear (never heard that one before) resulting in bent valves. Nick my copilot had the exact same set up (Trick Flow R Heads with harland rockers) on the shelf at his shop waiting to go into his personal car. After 5 min of thought in the Motion parking lot we took the top of the engine apart, found a buddy to go to his shop and grab parts and extra tools to reassemble my engine. Nick took my valve springs out of my heads and put them in his new never run heads with his new valves. After assembling the heads in the Motion Raceworks parking lot, reassembly began somewhere around 11pm and at 7:15 am we fired it up and got on the road. About a mile in broke a rocker. WE have spares, swapped it out and got to TriState after noon to make an 8.80 pass which broke yet another rocker, swapped it and finished the longest drive, Tri State to Great Lakes on no sleep in 42 hours. That is my vote for the hardest roadside repair. Thanks!

Driven Racing Oil Road King

Rich Guido - More than 24,000 miles driven to get to events

Howard’s Cams Bump Spot #100 Quickest

¼ mile National Event (if multiple events, racer’s quickest average used)

This is the Second Quickest Bump Spot in history!

Joe Peretti at Midwest Drags with an 8.858 Avg

Regional Events are the way to grow the sport.

2-3 day events that follow the format - 15 events in 2024

Quickest Overall ¼ Mile Regional -

Jeremy Kannas - ‘81 C10 at One Guy’s Garage Drag Weekend - 8.232 Avg

Quickest Overall ⅛ Mile Regional -

Steve Morris - Boostmaster at Drop the Hammer - 4.787 Avg - **Steve and Driven Racing Oil have collaborated on a Racing Oil, this was just announced an hour ago in the Driven Racing Oil booth!

Formulated for drag and drive applications, boosted and high horsepower engines, Methanol/Ethanol/Race Gas with rust & corrosion prevention!

Quickest 3 Overall ¼ Mile National

#3 Stefan Gustafson - 6.7454 at Sick Week - hand deliver at Sick Week when we see the Bitter Tears Camaro in person.

#2 Bryant Goldstone - 6.5194 at Sick Week (#3 Quickest 6.6058 SS24 and #4 Quickest 6.6718 HRDW)

#1 Brett LaSala - 6.3402 at Sick Week

Quickest 3 Overall ⅛ Mile National

#3 Sheldon Root - 4.758 avg at Sick Week

#2 Matt Moore - 4.687 Avg at Sick Week

#1 Shayne Propst - 4.613 Avg at Redwood Rally - Redwood Rally to accept

Quickest 1 Overall 235 ⅛ Mile National

Matt Moore - Rowdy Radial at Sick Week 2024 - 4.687 avg - HERE

Special Award - Fastest Female in Drag & Drive

We want to award Alex Taylor with the Fastest Female of Drag & Drive Award.

She’s one of three racers to run a six at every track during a National Event in 2024.

Alex finished the year with her Best Average since starting drag and drive with a

Before we move into the Points Championships, we want to say thanks to our #racecarfriends, thank you for being part of this with us. Thank you for your continued support!

Thanks to our sponsors for making all of this possible - Summit Racing, Mahle Motorsports, Driven Racing Oil, Howards Cams, CarChains3D, WAF Racing, PerformaBuilt Transmissions, JayWire Solutions, Sweet Patina, Racing Junk Classifieds and PowerTubeTV

Points Structure

Points for Showing up, For Each Day you turn in a time slip (15 points max), Points for finishing, Bonus Points for 5-9 Second ET Averages , Bonus Point for Resetting the Class ET Average (per event).

We collect and tabulate points from National Events which are 4 or more days of scheduled racing. Only one ⅛ mile class or event counts towards your Championship Points.

Total of 66,650 Championship Points collected this year

New for 2024, we created the 8.50 & 10.00 Points Champions. These were some of the tightest competitions!

10.00 Points Champion

Class Wins and Records Reset were the most important aspect of this award since there were no additional points provided for ET Bonuses.

10.00 Points Champion - Rick Doern - 84 Points

Rick Doern - with 84 points, Rick is our First Ever 10.00 Champion!

This will end up being one of the toughest belts to win because having there are no ET Bonus Points. These racers will have to Complete Three events and Place in their Classes to have a chance.

Rick took his S550 Mustang took Second in Street Machine Eliminator at Drag Week, Gained an extra point for his 6.8 Sec avg at Southeast Street-N-Yeet and Completing Sick Week.

8.50 Points Champion - Randy Seward - 109 Points

Randy Seward His turbo small block Foxbody Mustang took him to a win in all three events, running against possibly the toughest class in drag and drive each time! Randy put together one the best years in 8.50 racing in history. With three class wins and resetting the Street Race 275 Class Record at Sick Week, he earned 109 points!

Randy Seward - 109 Points

Sick Week - 37 points / HRDW - 36 points / Midwest Drags - 36 points

#3 Overall Points - Brian Acton - 105 Points

The Points Championship continues to heat up and truly awards the top racers in the drag & drive community. For the #3 Overall Points, it’s actually a tie between two racers, so it came down to the Quicker Car. The Racer in the #4 spot was Walter Doyle with his Wins at Race Week and RMRW, plus a second place at Southeast Street-N-Yeet.

The Winner of the #3 Overall Points is Brian Acton and Jay Blanchard!

Brian Acton, another heavy hitter in the 8.50 category!

Brian also won two classes - Sick Week with 8.5234 avg and Sick Summer with an 8.523 avg. Yes, you heard that correctly…. And a Second place to Randy Seward at Hot Rod Drag Week with an 8.5147 avg

Brian and Jay earned 105 points this year!

#2 Overall Points - Randy Seward

While also being the 8.50 Points Champion he also earned 2nd in Overall Points for 2024 with 109 points. The biggest win here is that an 8.50 car is within striking distance of the Championship. The closest Car that was Quicker than Randy was Alex Taylor at 104 points. And actually, 6 of the Top 10 cars were 8.50 or slower!

Your 2024 Drag & Drive World Champion presented by Summit Racing

He is one of 3 racers to put up a 6 second run each day of an event!

He’s the only racer to do it at two events in 2024!

He competed in five National events in 2024 - Four in the same car!

He won his class in all four events!

He reset the Class ET Avg Record for 3 of 4 events!

He was .05 Second Avg from resetting the RMRW Unlimited record that has stood since 2015.

In 19 days of drag and drive racing in 2024, he submitted a 6 second time slip 17 times!

Quickest ET of the Season: 6.406

Bryant Goldstone - Two Time Drag & Drive World Champion - 117 points

Sick Week - 39 points / Sick Summer - 39 Points / Hot Rod Drag Week - 39 Points

He actually scored 182 total points but only a racers Top 3 Finishes (as long as two are 1320ft events) count towards the Champion Series.