Drag Racing Classes

Like all forms of motorsports, Drag Racing is split into assorted categories to equalize performance. There are two major groups - the Professional and Sportsman racers. In professional racing two competitors race for the fastest time over a straight quarter mile run (1000 foot for Top Fuel) reaching breathtaking speeds of 300mph in under 4 seconds! In Sportsman racing a handicap system is used to provide close racing between cars in a timed bracket.

Pro Car Classes

Top Fuel Dragsters
These cars run on Nitro Methane and can reach speeds of up to 300mph accelerating from 0 - 100mph in under one second!

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Fuel Funny Cars
These cars have the same engines as Top Fuel Dragsters and run Nitro Methane but have tilt-up carbon fiber bodies on a smaller chassis with the engine in front of the driver.

Top Methanol
Running on less expensive fuel but almost as fast as their nitro cousins and highly competitive. Dragsters and Funny Cars compete together.

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Pro Modified Cars
Are the 200mph petrol (or methanol) burning 'fastest cars with doors!" showing the first signs of similarity to a street cars using bodies from the 40s to the present day. Visit website

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Pro Stock Cars
Petrol-burning doorslammers with very tight sets of rules governing appearance and specifications. Cars closely resemble production models, but are capable of hitting 6-second passes on the track!

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Sportsman Car Classes

Street Eliminator
These cars must be completely road legal with treaded tyres and MOT, part of qualification requires a drive on the road to prove this. The top cars can run 7 seconds! Visit website

Nostalgia Funny Car
Funny Cars with classic body styles replicating the golden age of drag racing. Web page

Comp Eliminator
A heads up (No Breakout) class where different types of cars run to different indexes. Classes for all body styles, chassis options and induction types.

Outlaw Anglia
Heads up racing from Ford Anglias that maintain the integrity of the original 1940s vehicles, but with the addition of modern drag racing technology.

Wild Bunch
Nostalgia slingshots, altereds and dragsters.

Super Comp
Allows full bodied cars and dragsters running in the 8.90 sec index.

Super Gas
Comprises mostly full bodied cars running in the 9.90 index. A well established class with high entries producing competitive and tactical racing.

Super Street
Full-bodied cars running to the 10.90 second index.

Super Pro ET
Cars and dragsters running to indexes between 6.00 and 8.99 seconds.

Pro ET
Cars and dragsters with a bracket of 9-11.99 seconds.

Sportsman ET
Includes a mixture of vehicles running 12 seconds or slower. This is the entry level class for car racing.

Junior Dragsters
Offering 8-17 year olds the chance to race with the grown-ups!

FWD Drag Series
Heads up front wheel drive drag racing with most cars running 9s or 10s. Visit website

FWD Drag Series

Outlaw Flat Four
Heads up drag racing. Cars do not have to be VW but must have a flat four engine.

VW Pro
Top-level VW only drag racing with dial-your-own-ET of 12.99 seconds or under. Visit website

VW Sportsman
Entry-level VW only drag racing with dial-your-own-ET of over 12.99 seconds. Visit website

RWYB - Run What Ya Brung
The grass roots of the sport and training ground for all drag racers. Most start by taking part in public Run What Ya Brung (RWYB) track days in their own vehicle. Santa Pod holds RWYB days throughout the season. Visit website

Run What Ya Brung

Pro Bike Classes

Top Fuel Bike
A combination of Top Fuel Bikes and Funny Bikes. The Top Fuel Bikes are mostly 4 cylinder motors producing 1000 bhp and are capable of running low 6 seconds at 220 mph plus. Funny Bikes are lighter, more nimble and can be built with a turbo, nitrous oxide or run on alcohol fuels.

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Super Twin
This hugely popular category is also an "anything goes" class, with the sole restriction being that the machine has a maximum of two cylinders. That means nitromethane, fuel injection and supercharging are in, as are thundering, awe-inspiring high six second 200mph performances.

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Pro Stock Bike
These bikes are built to very tightly controlled regs helping to ensure that the emphasis is on rider skill and tuning expertise - the key to their lightning reactions, mid to high seven second ETs and ultra competitive racing.

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Super Street Bike
Stretched out bikes with no wheelie bars and treaded tyres. These bikes sport big turbo or nitrous conversions.

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Sportsman Bike Classes

Funny Bike
Must resemble a road going bike but have in force no engine or fuel restrictions. Can run high 6s at around 200mph.

Competition Bike
Almost anything goes in this class, generally running 7s and 8s.

8.50 Bike
Highly modified street bikes running to the 8.50 index.

9.50 Bike
These bikes are ridden to a 9.50 second index. A sniff of nitrous and some chassis mods help many competitors.

Junior Bike
Junior bike class.

ET Bike
A dial-in ET class for twin cylinder motorcycles.

SuperTwins Top Gas
Heads up class for twin cylinder motorcycles.