Hot Rod Drag Week 2023 opened up at Darlington Dragway in Darlington, South Carolina. Over a hundred drag cars of all types showed up Sunday, September17th to get registered and do some testing to dial in their rides. Things got under way on Monday morning with participants making their final engine adjustments and start making their runs for official time. There were vendors of all types set up on the vendors alley. By 1PM many of the participants had made their runs for official times and started packing up and heading out for stop number two at Rockingham. It was a great day for racing with lots of sun shine and mile temps in the low 70’s.