{"id":104712,"date":"2026-09-03T21:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/photo-review-2026-rock-race-at-dragway-42\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:44:02","slug":"photo-review-2026-rock-race-at-dragway-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/drag-racing\/uncategorized\/photo-review-2026-rock-race-at-dragway-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Review: 2026 Rock & Race at Dragway 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

Billed as the \u201cWoodstock of Drag Racing,\u201d the Rock & Race event at Dragway 42 in West Salem, OH, truly has something for everyone.<\/p>\n

The event kicked off with a hot dog roast and corn boil for pre-registered racers, serving up 260 hot dogs and 500 ears of corn. The race itself featured hundreds of vehicles, ranging from street cars, muscle cars, hot rods, and lead sleds to gassers, dragsters, altereds, and funny cars. For the \u201cRock\u201d portion of the weekend, 10 live bands performed across all three nights.<\/p>\n

The car show was overflowing this year, with attendance growing each day. Highlights included cacklefest cars\u2014featuring a tribute to the John Milner dragster from American Graffiti 2\u2014as well as thrilling, smoky burnouts and wheelstands from the ScottRods AA\/Gassers and Supercharged Gassers of America. Three nostalgia funny cars were also on hand, and there was a wheelie contest as well.<\/p>\n

While a typical Rock & Race wouldn\u2019t be complete without some rain, the sprinkles that did come down didn\u2019t dampen the crowd\u2019s spirits.<\/p>\n

If you are in the Northeast Ohio area in late August next year, I highly recommend adding this event to your calendar. It is well worth the trip!<\/p>\n

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\nThe John Milner tribute dragster.<\/p>\n

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\nHollish Bros. Competition coupe.<\/p>\n

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\nMelissa Kwast launching her Dart.<\/p>\n

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\nDavid and Tyler Donohew\u2019s altered.<\/p>\n

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\nWayne Stine\u2019s \u201cHaymaker\u201d Willys pickup getting some air.<\/p>\n

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\nJoel Larkin\u2019s Super Stock Firebird.<\/p>\n

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\nBrian Conrey got behind the wheel of Steve Musser\u2019s \u201cTime Bomb\u201d Vega for the first time and ran a 7.46 at the eighth mile, which was planned for his first run.<\/p>\n

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\nJamison Griffin piloted Phil Landram\u2019s Bedrock Bruiser funny car.<\/p>\n

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\nAlan Niedsposzinski got some unexpected air and wasn\u2019t able to return.<\/p>\n

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\nTom Kurak\u2019s beautiful 53 Pontiac Chieftain \u201cKemosabe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nSteven Kasicki in his injected dragster.<\/div>\n
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Tracey Greshaw\u2019s \u201cWhite Tiger\u201d in the wheelie contest.<\/div>\n
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Todd Ziemenick heats up the tires in his Henry J with the ScottRods group.<\/div>\n

Bill Kloss
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Billed as the \u201cWoodstock of Drag Racing,\u201d the Rock & Race event at Dragway 42 in West Salem, OH, truly has something for everyone. The event kicked off with a hot dog roast and corn boil for pre-registered racers, serving up 260 hot dogs and 500 ears of corn. The race itself featured hundreds of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}