Drag Illustrated Issue 170, August 2021 | Page 69

BRACKET RACES LIKE THE RED , WHITE AND BLUE $ 20KS AT HOLLY SPRINGS MOTORSPORTS HAVE SEEN A SURGE OF RACERS EAGER TO HIT THE TRACK AFTER COVID ’ S IMPACTS ON THE RACING INDUSTRY IN 2020 . could eat a full spread of Cajun food at the free Troy ’ s Snack Shack . A Jumbotron in the staging lanes allowed people to watch on-track action from the lanes . A $ 5,000-to-win golf cart race was held when a hurricane brought two days of rain to the event . And even through the rained out days , the event live feed kept rolling on , as announcer Jake Hodge and Top Fuel star Clay Millican interviewed racers and sponsors . It all added up to make one memorable event .
“ Britt and I worked on getting that event put together for two or three years prior to us releasing it ,” Rolison says . “ I would say that event is probably the biggest feather in our cap , just executing that race and doing the things that we did within that race . You sit back and look at it and just feel like , ‘ Man , we really pulled that off .’ It was a great moment for both of us .”
In this Drag IllustrateD interview , Rolison and Cummings share the stories behind their
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