What is 660 in drag racing?
660-Foot Timer Measures elapsed time at the halfway point of a quarter-mile track. At some tracks, speed (in miles per hour) is also recorded. Some tracks also have timers at 330 and 1,000 foot intervals.
Why is it called drag racing?
Another woman… whose husband has got a month for “griddling in the main drag” (singing in the high street). The ‘roadway’ meaning of drag was transferred from England to the USA and, in the 1950s, the teenage pastime of racing cars ‘along the main drag’ began to be called ‘hot rodding’ or ‘drag racing’.
Why do drag racers say no time?
No Time or N/T means, as in grudge racing, no times are given out by the announcers or displayed on the scoreboards. The time slips are cut in half, as well as the winning margin being cut away. Secrecy is a major part of the game.
What does 60 ft mean in drag racing?
60 FOOT TIMER Measures the time it takes the car to cross the first 60 feet of the quarter-mile. This shows you how well the car launches, which affects your elapsed times. Most street-tired cars have 60 foot times around 2 seconds.
How fast is a quarter-mile in 10 seconds?
A 10-second 1/4 mile car is a car which can cover a quarter mile in 10 seconds or less starting from rest (zero velocity), i.e, it has an average velocity of 90 mph (144 kmph). Typically, a drag strip is a quarter mile long. Cars built to race on drag strips are popularly known as quarter mile cars.
Are NHRA cars automatic?
In the NHRA classes for drag racing, there is only one class of cars driven with a manual gearbox, and the rest are all various types of automatic gearboxes. Since the inception of the sport, advances in engineering have reached a pinnacle.
What does getting treed mean in racing?
Getting treed is when you have a significantly worse reaction time than the guy you are racing against. If you’re in the starting area and you see the green light and before you even start to move the guy next to you is already out of the gate having totally blown your doors off, well, then you just got treed.
What does ET mean in drag racing?
elapsed time
The start-to-finish clocking is the vehicle’s e.t. (elapsed time), which serves to measure performance and often serves to determine handicaps during competition.