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For the drag queen reality competition program, see RuPaul's Drag Race. Drag racing is a type of motor racing in which automobiles or motorcycles (usually specially prepared for the purpose) compete, usually two at a time, to be first to cross a set finish line. [1]

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American Hot Rod Association

The American Hot Rod Association, also known as the AHRA, was founded in Pennsylvania, headquartered in Kansas for much of its existence, and is located In Tennessee as of 2017.

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Aruba

Aruba (Papiamento) is an island and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, located about west of the main part of the Lesser Antilles and north of the coast of Venezuela.

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Australian National Drag Racing Association

The Australian National Drag Racing Association, or ANDRA for short, is the primary drag racing sanctioning body in Australia.

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Bahria Town

Bahria Town (بحریہ ٹاؤن) is a Rawalpindi-based privately owned real-estate development company which owns, develops and manages properties across Pakistan.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Bill Jenkins (drag racer)

William Tyler Jenkins (December 22, 1930 – March 29, 2012), nicknamed "Grumpy" or "The Grump", was an engine builder and drag racer.

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Bracket (tournament)

A bracket or tournament bracket is a tree diagram that represents the series of games played during a knockout tournament.

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Bracket racing

Bracket racing is a form of drag racing that allows for a handicap between predicted elapsed time of the two cars over a standard distance, typically within the three standard distances (1/8 mile, 1,000 foot, or 1/4 mile) of drag racing.

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Burnout (vehicle)

A burnout (also known as a peel out or power brake) is the practice of keeping a vehicle stationary and spinning its wheels, causing the tires to heat up and smoke due to friction.

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Bushy Park, Barbados

Bushy Park Plantation in the Parish of St. Phillip, Barbados is home to the Bushy Park race track, which features a 2.2 km FIA grade 3 course and a 1.2 km CIK grade 1 course.

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Car

A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.

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Chevrolet Vega

The Chevrolet Vega is a subcompact automobile that was manufactured and marketed by GM's Chevrolet subdivision from 1970 to 1977.

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Christmas tree (drag racing)

Modern drag races are started electronically by a system known as a Christmas tree.

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Curaçao

Curaçao (Curaçao,; Kòrsou) is a Lesser Antilles island in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuelan coast.

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Dodge Viper

The Dodge Viper is a sports car manufactured by Dodge (SRT for 2013 and 2014), a division of American car manufacturer FCA US LLC from 1991 through 2017, having taken a brief hiatus from 2010–2013.

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Don Garlits

Donald Glenn "Don" Garlits (born January 14, 1932, Tampa, Florida) is an American race car driver and automotive engineer.

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Don Nicholson

Don Nicholson (May 28, 1927 - January 24, 2006) was an American drag racer from Georgia.

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Don Prudhomme

Don Prudhomme (born April 6, 1941, San Fernando, California), nicknamed "The Snake", is an American drag racer.

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Drag boat racing

Drag boat racing is a form of drag racing which takes place on water rather than land.

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Dragster (car)

A dragster is a specialized competition automobile used in drag racing.

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Electric drag racing

Electric drag racing rules are very different from traditional drag racing.

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Electric dragbike

An electric dragbike is an electric motorcycle used for drag racing.

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Electric dragster

An electric dragster is a drag racing vehicle which contains an electric propulsion system which is powered by batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors (ultracapacitors), and sometimes they include a combustion engine to recharge their ESS (Energy Storage Systems).

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Electric vehicle

An electric vehicle, also called an EV, uses one or more electric motors or traction motors for propulsion.

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Engine displacement

Engine displacement is the swept volume of all the pistons inside the cylinders of a reciprocating engine in a single movement from top dead centre (TDC) to bottom dead centre (BDC).

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Erica Enders-Stevens

Erica Lee Enders-Stevens (born October 8, 1983 in Houston, Texas) is an American NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series Pro Stock driver.

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Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA, English: International Automobile Federation) is an association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR, English: 'International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs') on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users.

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Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme

The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM, International Motorcycling Federation) is the global governing/sanctioning body of motorcycle racing.

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FIM Europe

FIM Europe (Formerly the Union Européenne de Motocyclisme (UEM) or European Motorcycle Union) is the FIM affiliated federation responsible for Motorcycle sport within Europe.

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Fremont Dragstrip

The Fremont Dragstrip was a racing venue for dragster automobiles that was located in Fremont, California, operating from 1959 until the end of 1988.

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Funny Car

Funny Car is a type of drag racing vehicle and a specific racing class in organized drag racing.

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Gary, Indiana

Gary is a city in Lake County, Indiana, United States, from downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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Head start (positioning)

In positioning, a 'head start" is a start in advance of the starting position of others in competition, or simply toward the finish line or desired outcome.

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Hewanorra International Airport

Hewanorra International Airport, located near Vieux Fort Quarter, Saint Lucia, in the Caribbean, is the larger of Saint Lucia's two airports and is managed by the Saint Lucia Air and Seaports Authority (SLASPA).

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Hockenheimring

The is a motor racing circuit situated in the Rhine valley near the town of Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located on Bertha Benz Memorial Route.

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Holeshot

The holeshot is a motorsport terminology to describe a driver who has the strongest start to get up to racing speed.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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International Hot Rod Association

The International Hot Rod Association, also known as IHRA, is the second largest drag racing sanctioning body after the NHRA.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام آباد) is the capital city of Pakistan located within the federal Islamabad Capital Territory.

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Jason Line

Jason Line (born July 24, 1969 in Wright, Minnesota) drives the KB Racing Summit Racing Chevrolet Camaro Pro Stock car in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series.

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Jet car

A jet car is a car propelled by a jet engine.

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Johns Hopkins University Press

The Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.

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Junior Dragster

The Junior Dragster is a scaled-down version of the top fuel dragster.

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Keith Black (engineer)

Keith Black (1926 in Huntington Park, California – 1991) was an American producer of high performance drag racing engines, often used in Top Fuel and Tractor pulling applications.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Logghe Stamping Company

The Logghe Stamping Company (commonly known as Logghe Brothers) is a dragster and funny car fabricator based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Mental chronometry

Mental chronometry is the use of response time in perceptual-motor tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of cognitive operations.

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Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.

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Methanol

Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol among others, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated MeOH).

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Mickey Thompson

Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson (December 7, 1928March 16, 1988) was an American auto racing builder and promoter.

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Mile

The mile is an English unit of length of linear measure equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards, and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.

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Motorcycle

A motorcycle, often called a bike, motorbike, or cycle, is a two-> or three-wheeled motor vehicle.

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Motorsport

Motorsport or motor sport is a global term used to encompass the group of competitive sporting events which primarily involve the use of motorised vehicles, whether for racing or non-racing competition.

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Muscle car

Muscle car is an American term used to refer to a variety of high-performance automobiles.

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National Electric Drag Racing Association

The National Electric Drag Racing Association (NEDRA), a Special Chapter of the Electric Auto Association, and exists to increase public awareness of electric vehicle (EV) performance and to encourage through competition, advances in electric vehicle technology.

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National Hot Rod Association

The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada.

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Nitromethane

Nitromethane is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula.

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Nostalgia drag racing

Nostalgia drag racing started in the mid 80's when old racers started using their front-engine dragsters, funny cars and Super Stockers to race again, and picked up in the early 90's.

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Nostalgia Super Stock

Nostalgia Super Stock (AKA NSS) is a popular, and among the fastest growing forms of drag racing.

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Pro FWD

Pro FWD is a class in drag racing.

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Pro Modified

Pro Modified, also known as Pro Mod, is a class or division in the sport of drag racing used in the NHRA and FIA (quarter-mile) and the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) (eighth-mile).

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Pro Stock

Pro Stock is a class of drag racing featuring "factory hot rods".

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Pro Stock Motorcycle

Pro Stock Motorcycle, formerly known as Pro Stock Bike is a motorcycle drag racing class that is the two-wheeled equivalent of Pro Stock.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local.

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Ramstein Air Base

Ramstein Air Base is a United States Air Force base in Rhineland-Palatinate, a state in southwestern Germany.

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Rawalpindi

Rawalpindi (Punjabi, راولپِنڈى), commonly known as Pindi (پِنڈی), is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Rocket car

A rocket car is a land rocket vehicle powered by a rocket engine.

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RuPaul's Drag Race

RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality competition television series produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV and, beginning with the ninth season, VH1.

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Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia (Sainte-Lucie) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Santa Ana Drags

Santa Ana Drags was the first drag strip in the United States.

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Santa Pod Raceway

Santa Pod Raceway, located in Podington, Bedfordshire, England, is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue for 1/4 and 1/8 mile racing.

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Saskatoon

Saskatoon is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.

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Seed (sports)

A seed is a competitor or team in a sport or other tournament who is given a preliminary ranking for the purposes of the draw.

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Speed limit enforcement

Speed limit enforcement is the effort made by appropriately empowered authorities to improve driver compliance with speed limits.

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Sport compact

A sport compact is a high-performance version of a compact car or a subcompact car.

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Standing start

A standing start is a type of start in auto racing events, in which cars are stationary when the race begins.

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Street racing

Street racing is typically an unsanctioned and illegal form of auto racing that occurs on a public road.

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Summit Racing Equipment

Summit Racing Equipment is a mail order automotive performance equipment company, with thousands of performance parts, aftermarket accessories, tools and garage equipment, collectibles, and stock replacement parts to choose from.

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Super Comp

Super Comp (or Quick Rod) is the fastest of the heads-up Super classes (8.90 index).

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Supercharger

A supercharger is an air compressor that increases the pressure or density of air supplied to an internal combustion engine.

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Tarlton International Raceway

Tarlton International Raceway is a drag racing strip just outside Krugersdorp in South Africa.

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Top Alcohol

Top Alcohol refers to two different classes in professional drag racing: Top Alcohol Dragster and the Top Alcohol Funny Car.

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Top Doorslammer

Top Doorslammer is a professional (Pro) class of Australian drag racing.

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Top Fuel

Top Fuel dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racers, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of and finishing the runs in 3.64 seconds.

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Turbocharger

A turbocharger, or colloquially turbo, is a turbine-driven forced induction device that increases an internal combustion engine's efficiency and power output by forcing extra air into the combustion chamber.

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World record

A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill or sport.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_racing

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