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drag racing

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drag racing

Form of motor racing in which two contestants race side by side from a standing start over a straight quarter-mile strip of pavement. Winners go on to compete against others in their class until only one is left undefeated. There are three main classes of vehicle: (1) the Top Fuel Eliminator (called a “rail” or “slingshot”), a lightweight, long-chassied vehicle with wide rear tires that is fueled by a special mixture, such as methanol and nitromethane; (2) the “funny car,” a high-performance copy of a late-model production car that uses special fuel; and (3) the standard production car, a modified version of a gasoline-powered production car. The Top Fuel class is the fastest, followed by the funny car. Drag racing is most popular in the U.S.
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THE Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) hosted successful tests last Saturday night for participants in the Bahrain National Drag Racing Championships.
Drag racing test and tune at BIC by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
More records are expected to be smashed in the drag racing schedule, which includes all major classes.
Life's a drag - at 233mph by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
It did not need an expert to conclude that the large crowd had been there for the illegal drag racing that takes place every couple of nights on the section of Sofia's ring road close to Boyana neighbourhood where there are a few kilometres of straight, wide and narrow highway suitable for such stunts.
Fast and foolish: illegal drag racing claims two lives in Sofia by Kostadinov, Petar / The Sofia Echo (Sofia, Bulgaria)
 
 
 
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