Drag Racing
Talking about the preparation involved with drag racing, the safety equipment, and witnessing an extreme vehicle crash.
- If your car breaks, there are many other teams ready to come help you.
- Effectiveness of the safety equipment.
- What happens the day of a race.
- Mind games that can be played during a race.
- How you can lose at the start line.
- Understanding how your vehicle responds.
- Conditions that affect a vehicle’s performance.
- When hitting the brakes can make a situation worse.
- When a routine helps manage anxiety and improve focus.
- Adapting when parts malfunction.
- The moment he decided to start racing.
- A tire pressure trick that helps when staging.
Drag Racing Terms
Christmas Tree
- Column of 7 vertical lights used to indicate when race starts.
- Lights in order from top to bottom.
- Pre-staged yellow light.
- Staged yellow light.
- Amber flashes for .500 Seconds.
- Amber flashes for .500 seconds.
- Amber flashes for .500 seconds.
- Green lights up.
- Red light flashes if cross line before green lights up.
- Used for bracket racing.
Pro-Tree
- Same light pattern as Christmas tree with different light time.
- All three amber lights flash simultaneously for .500.
- Green on.
- Used in non bracket racing.
Bracket Racing
- Allows vehicles of varying elapsed time to compete against each other.
- Makes the race more about reaction time, shifting ability, and driver skill.
- Each vehicle writes their predicted 1/4 mile time on top corner of windshield
Pre-Staged
- Race car is about 7 inches behind start line.
- Top yellow on tree lights up
Staged
- Front wheel on the starting line.
- Second yellow lights up.
- Race can start at anytime now.
Red-Light
- Bottom red will light up anytime a racer cross start line before green light.
- Racer disqualified.
Tree (this guy)
- Once green lights up.
- Crossing the start line faster than opponent.
Breakout
- Used in bracket racing.
- When a driver goes faster than his written best time.
On the Trailer
- Race car is put on a trailer after losing or being eliminate from the race.