These images are selected pages from my self-published book DRAG.

The world's fastest, loudest motorsport, born of a post-war “hot rod” craze in the USA, stripped down and souped-up to race each other along a main drag. Illicit and addictive, it quickly got out of hand. Races were moved from streets to private airfields, forming an organised event. The only motorsport in the world where women compete against men. The only race without curves, corners or second chances. Just a straight shot, one on one. May the best machine win.

Santa Pod Raceway is drag racing’s British home. Opened in 1966 as a permanent dragstrip, it welcomes anything you can tune wildly enough to rip down a quarter mile. Four wheels or two. Fast or not quite so fast. Top Fuel Dragsters and Funny Cars. Motorbikes and “Run What Ya Brung”.

The photographs in this project capture the shootouts and burnouts of the 2024 FIA European Drag Championships. The mechanics who tune them. The fans who cheer them. The fearless who race them.