What is Drag Racing

Text Box: In basic terms, a drag race is an acceleration contest from a standing start between two vehicles over a measured distance at a specially designed drag race facility. The accepted standard is either a quarter-mile or an eighth-mile. The contests are started by means of an electronic device commonly called a “Christmas Tree”. Upon leaving the starting line, each contestant activates a timer which is in turn stopped when the same vehicle reaches the finish line. The start-to-finish clocking of the vehicle’s ET (elapsed time) h serves to measure the performance and also to determine handicaps during competition.

Text Box: The Origin of the Name “Funny Car” The funny car’s roots go back to America in the ‘sixties’ and the short lived involvement of the major car manufactures who at one time realised that success on the drag strip sold cars to the public. Fierce competition on the match race circuit (a nationwide tour of drag strips) led to the construction of more and more outrageous machine, to the extent that they went beyond the existing rules and eventually received the FX or factory experimental designation, although by this time the factories had officially withdrawn. The car, although still using steel body shells (albeit the outer panels only) had evolved through tubular chassis, injected then super-charged motors and exotic fuels and sometimes blatant body modification which earned them the title ‘funny car’

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What is Drag Racing