drag racing
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type of motor racing in which vehicles compete to accelerate in a straight line
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Vinony's link graph records 1,296 inbound references to drag racing, and connects out to Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, motorsport and manual transmission.
It is catalogued under topics including Auto racing by type, Drag racing and Motorcycle racing by type.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
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Encyclopedic overview
American Drag Racing League's (ADRL) drag racing event held on July 28, 2008, at the Maryland International Raceway
Drag racing is a type of motor racing in which automobiles or motorcycles compete, usually two at a time, to be first to cross a set finish line. The race follows a short, straight course from a standing start over a measured distance, most commonly 1⁄4 mi (1,320 ft; 402 m), with a shorter, 1,000 ft (0.19 mi; 304.80 m) distance becoming increasingly popular, as it has become the standard for Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, where some major bracket races and other sanctioning bodies have adopted it as the standard. The 1⁄8 mi (660 ft; 201 m) is also popular in some circles. Electronic timing and speed sensing systems have been used to record race results since the 1960s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “drag racing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.