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The 19th annual HOT ROD Drag Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive is heading to the Southeast region, with four amazing dragstrips and 1,000 miles of fun to determine who has the Fastest Street Car in America! This year’s home base is the historic Darlington Dragway (Hartsville, South Carolina) with registration, tech-in, and test-and-tune taking place on September 17, 2023. The competition begins Monday, September 18, and runs through Friday, September 22. The route heads north and loops around to arrive back at Darlington Dragway by Friday, hitting four different dragstrips in five days.
Two of the four tracks are new to the Drag Week crowd, and this region is rich in street-legal drag racing thanks to a variety of local Drag and Drive events and street car shootouts. HOT ROD Drag Week visited Darlington Dragway in 2018 and returns this year as the start/stop location for the first time. The competitors will hit the road after finishing Day 1 at Darlington and drive north to Rockingham Dragway (Rockingham, North Carolina) for Day 2; it is the first of two new tracks in the HOT ROD Drag Week history books. Hump day will be spent at Bristol Dragway (Bristol, Tennessee), which is northwest of The Rock. Day 4 will be the second new track on the schedule, the famed “House of Hook,” which is officially known as Carolina Dragway (Aiken, South Carolina). The survivors will return to Darlington Dragway for the fifth and final day of the competition with the traditional Friday night awards ceremony following the event completion.
(Daily end times as stated or until complete. )
Tech Inspection, Registration, Test ‘n’ Tune / Sunday, Sept. 17
Day 1 Racing / Monday, Sept. 18
Day 2 Racing / Tuesday, Sept. 19
Day 3 Racing / Wednesday, Sept. 20
Day 4 Racing / Thursday, Sept. 21
Day 5 Racing (Finals) / Friday, Sept. 22