From there, it's up to you to keep it full throttle down the track and across the finish line. Traxxas Stability Management ® (TSM) goes to work immediately, providing lightning-quick corrections to keep you from veering off course. You've already set your wheelie bar and used the multi-function knob on your transmitter to fine-tune the launch for maximum traction and acceleration. When the lights go green, release the Launch Control for a perfect reaction time. ![]() ![]() After your burnout, shake up your opponent by being the last one to roll into the stage beam. The Traxxas NHRA Funny Car accurately captures the total racing experience with realistic staging action on the start line. The Traxxas Ford Mustang NHRA Funny Car Race Replica brings full-throttle fun to life the Traxxas way with outrageous horsepower, intense speed, and unmatched realism. Over 300mph is achieved in about the time it takes to read this sentence. Drivers pull more than five Gs at launch, accelerating faster than a fighter jet. A single funny car produces more horsepower than the first 8 rows of cars in a stock-car race. There's a class, and a vehicle, for everyone, and all of those vehicles can be found in the drag racing classifieds.Outrageous Horsepower, Intense Speed, and Unmatched RealismĬubic-inch for cubic-inch, no motorsport offers as much sheer power and performance as NHRA drag racing. But there are also whole series’ of street and stock-performance vehicles including Pro Street, Pro Stock, Sportsman and bracket, stock and super stock. Organizations like the NHRA, the PDRA (Professional Drag Racers Association), and the IHRA (International Hot Rod Association) serve as sanctioning bodies that create the rules for classes of racing, and govern the types of racing and series that amateur and professional racers participate in to ensure safety measures and standards of conduct.ĭrag Racing appeals to both drivers who want to challenge the powertrain in a daily driver, and those who want to build and race custom vehicles that only thrive by the light of the strip.ĭrag Racing encompasses many types of amateur and professional specialty racing vehicles including door cars, funny cars, motorcycles, dragsters, and pro modifieds. Now, drag racing is a professional sport, with classes covering everything from junior dragsters, to motorcycles, to vintage vehicles, to nitro-powered vehicles. Hot rodders would race each other on long empty strips of road. Professional organizations like the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) the largest sanctioning body in professional drag racing, were started to counteract illegal street racing, which can be very dangerous due to the speed and power of the vehicles and the magnitude of damage that occurs when something goes wrong and these vehicles malfunction or crash.ĭrag Racing really got its start as a contest in the 1950s with the rise in popularity of hot rods – vehicles with classic bodies ( 1932 Fords, etc) which were modified with modern engines and tuning to create more power and run faster. ![]() While most drag racing now takes place on a professional race track, there are both televised staged street contests and illegal street races which still take place. Drag Racing is a contest between two vehicles to determine which can go the fastest from a standing start to full open throttle over an agreed upon distance, which is usually an 1/8 mile, ¼ mile or 1000 feet.
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