Hey Cunts - Seeing as I am new around here, I figured I might be able to contribute something constructive about something I know a bit about.
Drag Racing. It is just a basic to help people understand who might be new
to the sport or considering going for their first look. It's fuckin great fun to watch.
TOP FUEL DRAGSTER - These are the big noisy ones that spend the majority of the time in bits and most of the rest of the time blowing up and causing hour-long oildowns that shit everyone else to tears. The fire show of Top Fuel makes it the feature event at any drag race meeting, it's just a shame that a full power pass at a national event is less likely than everyone in the crowd winning Powerball. At once. On the moon.
TOP ALCOHOL - Top Alcohol is a mixture of dragsters and funny cars. Funny cars aren't. Top Alcohol run on methanol, and are slightly slower than the Top Fuellers, running as quick as 5.50 for the quarter mile and up to 260mph. New people to drag racing are confused when they see dragsters going down the track and not blowing up.
TOP DOORSLAMMER - These cars the the ones that appear most like cars you see on the road except that they don't. For instance, there are currently 2 new model Monaros, a HQ Monaro and a few Camaros running, as well as 57 Chevs and even Studebakers.
Studebakers are the most often spotted brand of car on Aussie roads. They are basically a doored car running the same engine as Top Alcohol, and are much heavier, a little slower and almost entirely irelevant to anyone with an engine made in the last 40 years. The quickest legal doorslammer in the world is a turbo car yet in backwards-arse Australia, they're not allowed. Booo!
PRO STOCK - The closest racing you are ever going to see is going to be in pro stock but it's not the racing that people go to see. Pro Stock, also known as the hairdresser's class, is the domain of the throbbing same'o'sexual and despite the race car haircuts and sleeve tatts is anything but manly. Dated technology and less than 3hp/ci is the domain of the mincer and proclaimed no louder than Pro Stock.
SUPER GAS - Possibly the only drag racing class in existence where hamstringing your big dollar engine for the majority of the time is what's 'cool'. A class for maths nerds who are too poor (or haven't got their hairdresser's ticket) to race Pro Stock.
SUPER COMPACT - A relatively new class of drag racing, Super Compact is for the import cars running rotaries and turbo 4s and 6s. The bastard child of a failed ANDRA Sport Compact series and the desire for traditional Group 2 racers to "asshole those new boys back to Japjap land".
MODIFIED ELIMINATOR - Modified Eliminator bills itself as the family-friendly, everyone loves everyone, happiness, daisies and rainbow bullshit class of drag racing. Modified racers are all murderers and kitten punchers.
SUPER SEDAN - A class for 9 and 10 sec orange toranas with small block chevs, one carb and a powerglide. And that's it.
SUPER STREET - See Super sedan and add some slow.
JUNIOR DRAGSTER - Fucking. Yawn. End.
I hope that helps with people who have never been out before to understand what you are looking at. Drag racing is great fun to participate in and to just watch.
Thanks for reading
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Originally Posted by seedyrom
