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	Absolute Drag Racing - hot rods, links, pictures and information
		Determining the origin of the term "drag racing" is not the clearest quest in the world - there are as many theories as the machines that have populated its ranks for five decades.
		Today's drag racing mobiles are computer-designed wonders with sleek profiles and wind-tunnel-tested rear airfoils that exert 5,000 pounds of downforce on the rear tires with minimal aerodynamic drag.
		As racers became smarter, the speed barriers fell: 260 mph toppled in 1984; 270 in 1986; 280 in 1987; 290 in 1989: and the magic 300 mph barrier fell before the wheels of former Funny Car champion Kenny Bernstein on March 20, 1992.
	www.absolute-drag-racing.com (337 words)

	Drag racing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Drag racing is a form of auto racing in which any two vehicles (most often two cars or motorcycles) attempt to complete a fairly short, straight and level course in the shortest amount of time, starting from a dead stop.
		Drag racing originated in the United States and is still the most popular there.
		Drag racing vehicles are special in that they are modified to be lighter and more powerful than in their standard form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drag_racing (4004 words)

	Drag City
		The premise of drag racing is very simple; it is a straight-line acceleration contest between two vehicles over a measured distance of a quarter mile.
		Drag City solves all these problems by being a permanent facility that has a professionally prepared surface to race on and bright lights for night racing.
		Unlike most drag strip facilities that built spectator stands that are parallel with the track at 0 degrees, Mopar Drag City's spectators stands will be offset 3 degrees to allow for the fans to have a better view of the whole race from start to the finish.
	www.drag-city.com /dragstrip.htm (1254 words)

	National Trail Raceway: Junior Dragster, jr. dragsters, junior drag racing
		Drag Racing League has room for every type of racing family— from the grass-roots team with the stock motor and the simple paint job to the highly competitive crew with the latest components and the fastest alky burner on the grounds.
		drag racers are still running that familiar 7.90 e.t., but on the famed NHRA quarter-mile with V8 power behind them.
		Drag Racer will kids learn Cory Mac's most hated household chore, Mike Dunn's favorite cartoon character, and who gave Don "the Snake" Prudhomme his famous nickname.) They'll even learn how to hop up their Hot Wheels cars and get racing tips from the top.
	www.nationaltrailraceway.net /jrdragster.html (546 words)

	Drag Racing Links
		Drag Racing sanctioning bodies who establish rules and organize races in their own particular categtories.
		Drag racing has always been a great research lab for auto manufacturers and racing electric is the future.
		The Nostalgia racers are restoring some of the old cars you may remember or see in the old magazines.
	www.suite101.com /links.cfm/drag_racing (213 words)

	Northpinellas: Drag racers can start their engines, for a while
		Drag racers can start their engines, for a while
		The companies that run the drag strip and motocross track struck a deal with the state Department of Transportation, which bought the speedway property last summer in order to build a connector road between Interstate 275 and the Bayside Bridge.
		Keeping the track open gives drag racers a safer outlet than local roads, and the lease provides the state some income on property that would have sat vacant until the highway is built.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/09/26/news_pf/Northpinellas/Drag_racers_can_start.shtml (400 words)

	Drag Racing Online - Tocher Talks Vol. III No. 8 August 2001
		To represent drag racers, the writer suggested John Force and Gary Scelzi as worthy competitors (though he quickly replaced Scelzi's nomination in favor of Angelle Seeling's TV appeal -- apparently unaware of her recently married name change to Savoie).
		Now, admittedly, this was not a scientific poll and NASCAR fans are notorious for their tunnel-visioned support of anything based in Charlotte or Daytona (personally, I cast my lot with the Rally guys), but I was surprised by the drag racers' poor showing.
		Now, I've never driven anything even close to resembling a nitro-powered drag car, but I've been around a lot of them and the men (and women!) who drive them and I feel very confident in saying there's a special skill involved and these people are indeed race car drivers.
	www.dragracingonline.com /tocher/iii_8.html (556 words)

	African Americans Don't Burn Out In Drag Racing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many of those street racers are taking a stand to stop illegal racing by forming organizations such as the Black Drag Racers Association (BDRA) and the United Black Drag Racers Association (UBDRA), the largest organizations that promote community awareness, drug free racers, and safe, responsible off street driving.
		Racers with more than one violation on their record may face hefty fines and have their licenses revoked.
		As dry lake drag racing began to move to drag strips in 1951, one team in particular was known for its mixed heritage--San Diego's Bean Bandits.
	www.onwheelsinc.com /AAOWMagazine/2001_AugSept/pg20.asp (2552 words)

	CNN.com - A car stereo that can kill you? Cool - Jul. 2, 2003
		Drag racers replace windows and windshields with Plexiglas up to two inches thick, secure panels with turnbuckles fit for an America's Cup racer and, in some cases, fill the doors with concrete.
		At the end of each major meet, the four loudest competitors line up for the "deathmatch," a five-minute, winner-take-all face-off in which they fire sound salvos at one another as judiciously yet loudly as possible, trying to keep their speakers and power sources alive until time is up.
		Many of the cars that performed at a dB drag racing event I attended in Toronto were sad-looking beaters, some with zoomy but faded paint jobs advertising their sponsors or owner's car-audio shop.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/ptech/07/02/popsci.stereo.kill/index.html (1209 words)

	Triple Digit Racing - Sponsors Needed!
		Drag Boat Racing is like all other professional motor sports, and to compete successfully means that you accept the risk of pushing your racing operation to its limits.
		But it is the sponsors behind the racers that allow us to keep delivering the action the fans return for year after year.
		Although unlike our fellow drag racers that frequent the track, we are a smaller and perhaps more adventurous sect.
	topfueldragboat.com /info.htm (531 words)

	Drag racers rule streets as we await tough new laws - National - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		INBAR Herman was tossed 60 metres into the air when she was hit by a drunken drag racer doing 120 km/h.
		Drag racers regularly gather in the area in which she was killed.
		Both drivers, who denied drag racing, had their licences suspended for 12 months, were penalised eight demerit points and fined $451.
	www.theage.com.au /news/national/drag-racers-rule-streets-as-we-await-tough-new-laws/2006/01/14/1137119007216.html (868 words)

	Drag racers cheating death - Silver Chips Online
		He races for the publicity drag racing garners him among peers and finds the possible profits and attention from girls to be enticing extras.
		While admitting that most drag racers take a cavalier attitude towards the risks of their hobby, Derrick is fully aware that he could be severely injured or even die.
		Drag racing is done on an association licensed track with officals, sponsors, precise timing systems and the proper safety equipment standing by in case of a crash.
	silverchips.mbhs.edu /inside.php?sid=4315 (1587 words)

	Drag Racing Online
		February is fl history month and we thought it appropriate that DRO address the subject of Afro-American drag racers.
		There have been many outstanding fl drag racers over the past half century, and there is a basis for truthfully saying "too numerous to mention," but we’ll try to squeeze in as many as memory allows.
		For example, California racer Eddie Flournoy, whose son Rodney showed well in Funny Car in the 1980s despite a zero budget, wrenched on Hall of Famer Jim "Jazzy" Nelson’s fuel burning coupes and roadsters in the 1950s.
	www.dragracingonline.com /special/blackhistory_1.html (560 words)

	Diamonds are Forever for Jeff Arend
		The NASCAR Drag Division, as it was known, was primarily set up to cater to the stock-bodied drag racer so prevalent in the east.
		The payout and the money was good, the venues were well covered in the drag racing print media, and the circuit was known as the place to be for the little guy drag racer.
		Unfortunately for the NASCAR brass who wanted to continue to play in drag racing, by 1969 NHRA had pretty much accepted the match racers, and the altered wheelbase behemoths that were the mainstay of the NASCAR circuit had developed into full-fledged funny cars, and the circuit began to be squeezed.
	www.competitionplus.com /07_15_2004/nascar_drag.html (981 words)

	DragRaceResults.com
		Ray Sveeggen, a circle track racer from Bersford, SD, won the first-ever Hurst Cup, and Jacob Rutledge, a drag racer from Braselton, GA, won the first-ever Mallory Cup.
		As for the drag racers, some of their cars are set up to run eighth-mile and some are set up for quarter-mile, some are fast cars, some are slower bracket cars.
		Racers at these tracks who win, who run participating manufacturers’ products and who display those manufacturers’ decals on their vehicles receive contingency sponsorships in the form of cash, products or product gift certificates.
	www.dragraceresults.com /articles/1202/mr_gasket.html (1658 words)

	News Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The April 1 issue of Drag News includes a tech feature on the track's innovative racing surface prep unit that actually uses spinning slicks to prepare the drag racing surface.
		The Russian Drag Racing Association has made “inroads” literally, with the Russian Government with attendance success reported up to 15,000 spectators over 2 day events by dueling organizations such as the the Russian Drag Racing Federation and the Russian Drag Racing Association.
		The reasoning is split about dead even between racers not wanting to endure the expense of 2,000 mile trips to the Canada west coast or just plainly the "strained" relations between the two counties during war time.
	www.dragnews.com /news-archives/apr03.php (1460 words)

	DRAGBIKE.COM, Headlining News From The Motorcycle Drag Racing World
		Benefiting most from the technological advances of two-wheel manufacturers is perhaps the growing mass of street bike drag racers.
		They would head to the drag strip, unscrew the mirrors, let some air out of the tire, and depending on how much performance work and aftermarket parts were on the bike, would attempt to get their Kawasaki KZ or Suzuki GS into the 11-second zone.
		Stotz is one of the few riders that has taken the sport of motorcycle drag racing to the next level by alluring valuable sponsorship from one of the major manufactures.
	www.dragbike.com /lumberjack/02top10/index03.htm (2574 words)

	Legal Drag Racing
		News stories across the country have told tales of illegal street racing resulting in injury and even death when the racers' machines go out of control.
		, a coalition of auto manufacturers, aftermarket parts companies, professional drag racers, sanctioning bodies and automotive magazines, to promote safe and legal alternatives to illegal street racing on a national level.
		SEMA knows that public opinion of the vehicle hobby must remain positive for it to flourish, and getting illegal racers to a safe venue, while still having a good time, is essential.
	www.shadetreemechanic.com /legal_drag_racing.htm (390 words)

	Drag Racing's Internet Magazine from a DIFFERENT VIEW! Black Dragracers.com
		She comes from a racing family, has been around racing all of her life, is a second-generation driver and dreams of a future as a well-funded, professional race driver.
		Unlike most other young racers however, she has a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Accounting and Business Administration and just this month added her Masters (in Industrial Technology) from North Carolina A & T State in Greensboro.
		We are here to celebrate their past and present accomplishments and contributions to the world of drag racing.
	www.blackdragracers.com (516 words)

	COURTTV.COM - Drag Race Murder Trial - Full Coverage
		A jury has spared two drag racers the worst by acquitting them of second-degree murder but convicting them of manslaughter and reckless driving for a fatal street racing accident.
		Continuing his testimony Tuesday, drag racer George Waller Jr.
		Heather Fleischer, a friend of one of two drag racers on trial for murder, testified that she and her car-enthusiast boyfriend constantly warned Lawrence Calhoun about the dangers of illegal racing on public streets.
	www.courttv.com /trials/dragrace (315 words)

	Drag Racing Online :: Burk's Blast - Just wondering in April - 4/7/06
		Those bonus points the racers can get for setting records definitely make for some drama during a points chase and are one of the signature differences between drag racing and oval track points chases.
		Drag racing isn’t dependent on distance but on competition.
		Add in the revenue from selling tires to sportsman racers and who knows what the bottom line is, but you can bet the company isn’t losing money.
	www.dragracingonline.com /burksblast/viii_4-1.html (1141 words)

	Victorian Drag Racers Club INC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The VDRC was established in 1970 and is one of the oldest Drag Racing Clubs still active in Australia.
		The VDRC provides the drag racers of Victoria with the opportunity to meet with fellow racers on a social level while also providing them with a forum where they can address some of the off track issues.
		Round 1 of the Victorian Drag Racers Club Super Series is rapidly approaching, and promises to be bigger and better with the completion of events last season (2005/06).
	www.vdrc.net (323 words)

	Drag Racing & Bracket Tips
		I'm amazed how Drag Racers are perfectly willing to spend enormous amounts of money to find that extra bit of horsepower, but will not spend a penny on improving something far more important--their brain-power.
		Racers will spend an enormous amount of time working on their race cars, but they are much less likely to take time working on themselves.
		If you talk with any top athlete from golfers, to basketball players, to racers; 99% of them will say that mental strength, determination, concentration, and psychological influences are the most important factors in their success.
	racingsecrets.com /drag_racing_psyched.shtml (980 words)

	Drag racers blast Cruisin' Grand - North County Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although the 1960s' drag racers were not scheduled to start their notoriously thunderous engines until presstime, a preview of the noise to come came at 6:30 p.m., when the engine of the funny car started up.
		This year is the second appearance of the drag racers at Cruisin' Grand.
		Top Fuel racers have continued to gain in power since then, according to Rick MacDonald, who maintains the "Magicar," one of the cars in the show.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/08/27/news/inland/21_42_148_26_05.txt (1028 words)

	DRAGBIKE.COM, Headlining News From The Motorcycle Drag Racing World
		Fans, why not get to the track early and buy a weekend pass to see the top motorcycle drag racers in the world, test and tune their machines.
		NHRA's Indianapolis Raceway Park is one of the most historic tracks in the timeline of motorcycle drag racing, as it was home to legendary motorcycle drag racing pioneer, Elmer Trett.
		Racers are welcome off the street in our Street E.T. event and others depending on qualifications.
	www.dragbike.com /news/07-03/073003a.htm (1175 words)

	Jr. Drag Racing League
		Drag Racing League, a division of the National Hot Rod Association, that's designed to build the racers of tomorrow while providing a fun family activity today.
		Drag Racing League members who qualify for the annual NHRA Jr.
		drag racers are still running that familiar 8.90 e.t., but on the famed NHRA quarter-mile with V8 power behind them.
	www.nhraonline.com /aboutnhr/jr.htm (466 words)

	Auto Club Famoso Raceway has a Rich History
		The result was the first U.S. Fuel and Gas Championships, often called the "Woodstock of drag racing." Although Garlits lost in the first round, and Art Chrisman became Top Eliminator, Garlits went on to become the most celebrated drag racer in history and #1 on the NHRA's Top 50 list.
		In 1994, the March Meet at Famoso was resurrected as a race for nostalgic front-engined cars, with entries limited to pre-1972-style racers.
		Scores of famous vehicles spanning American motorsports history are on display, including winning cars representing 50 years of drag racing, dry lakes and salt-flat racers, oval track challengers and exhibits describing their colorful backgrounds.
	www.dragracecentral.com /DRCStory.asp?ID=125211 (1411 words)

	Pacific Raceways Plays Host
		Kent, WA - The nation’s premier vintage drag racers are preparing to spend a memorable Labor Day weekend in the Pacific Northwest as the Goodguys 1st Northwest Nostalgia Nationals gets set to blast off at Pacific Raceways, in Kent, Washington September 2-4.
		Joining the vintage drag racing action will be a rod and custom show and shine for 1972 and earlier vehicles which will fill the Eastside of Pacific Raceways with gorgeous multicolored and chrome plated hot rods and customs.
		One racer who will be extremely anxious to get back on track in Seattle is AA/GAS veteran Steve Woods of San Leandro, CA who had a disastrous outing in Pomona.
	www.dragraceusa.com /latestnews/2005/pacific_raceways_plays_host.htm (959 words)

	Drag News Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Drag Racing League, while their usual variety of high school, street legal, and other racing action continues.
		She was excited then, but when she found out that she had gone further in eliminations than the other qualified racers who attended the Ohio Crankshaft Super Bowl of Bracket Racing and was the winner of four wheels from American Racing Equipment, she was really excited.
		Many local racers are also sounding out on the new track, as its location is mere miles from existing Dragway 42, another IHRA member facility.
	www.dragnews.com (1984 words)

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