6 TIMER!

Tom Bailey captures his 6th HOT ROD Drag Week Unlimited/Overall title with his Sick Seconds 1.0 Camaro.

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For the second straight year and the sixth time in HOT ROD Drag Week Presented by Gear Vendors Overdrive history, Tom Bailey has been crowned with America’s Fastest Street Car title by capturing the Overall win, in addition to winning the Unlimited category. His impressive accomplishments put him at the top of the list for the most Overall wins, a title he shared with Larry Larson for one year.

Bailey completed the week by posting a 6.7149 average over the five-day, nearly 1,000-mile road trip, visiting tracks in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

The pathway to the HOT ROD Drag Week victory was one filled with plenty of bumps in the road, figuratively and literally. Bailey’s pre-event testing could’ve gone better, the first problem being a pair of exhaust valves breaking three days before he planned to get on the road to South Carolina. The repairs were easy, and he got back on track on Thursday so he could knock the dust off his beloved Sick Seconds 1.0. That is when a larger problem reared its ugly head. The Chevy engine spun a few rod bearings, a normal maintenance item that Bailey admitted they should’ve changed but didn’t.