Photo: BUTTON74 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) — Bandimere Speedway, Colorado; not an official Drag Week venue
Race
HOT ROD Drag Week
Five days, five drag strips, one winner: whoever posts the quickest average elapsed time after driving roughly 1,000 miles between tracks.
When
September 13, 2026
1:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Where
Route 66 Raceway (start/finish)
Joliet, IL
HOT ROD Drag Week is part drag race, part road rally: competitors run for elapsed time at a different track each day, then drive the car — no trailers — to the next venue. The 2026 route starts and ends at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, IL, with stops at Byron Dragway, Cordova Dragway, and World Wide Technology Raceway in between, celebrating 100 years of Route 66.
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