Reaction Paper About Drag Racing

Do people like horsepower? Do civilians prefer to have their car going fast? Many people who like their cars going fast don’t really know everything they need to know to get their car to go fast which would be the aerodynamics or “the way air moves around things” drag racing cars are built so they don’t have a lot of drag and they can dart down the track . Drag is a force that acts parallel and is the same direction on airflow drag impacts on how the automobile passes through the air. It’s kind of ironic how they don’t want drag on the car, but it’s drag racing. The term drag racing might have came from people saying “Drag your car out of the garage and race me”. Aerodynamics and body styles have improved drag racing since it first appeared.

From that people started making different types of cars, drag racing cars. People's love for competition took over and they started racing, just not legally. Fans of drag racing made rules and regulations and soon it became National Hot Rod Association as we know it today or NHRA. C.J. Hart opened the first official drag strip in 1950 which was when drag racing became legal. In 1959 the first drag strip closed down, but there were many drag strips around all of the United States. No one thought that drag racing would be this big. Drag racing turned cars into “ricers” , “speed demons” and “rice burners”, now teenagers are meeting up in parking lots and showing off their

“Body, drivetrain, chassis, etc. may not be altered, modified, or relocated, except as outlined in Requirements & Specifications in the Rulebook” (silvey). The engine must be an internal combustion engine and the weight should be 1,100 (including driver) at minimum and maximum should be 2,350, (including driver). The tires give better traction to keep the car in line even with water on the track it gives great traction normally racers do burnouts before racing because they warm there tires up. Aerodynamics are tricky when it comes to body styles if they mess anything up the driver can crash that’s a main reason they have a stimulation now for race cars so when they figure out the aerodynamics in the cars they can see what will