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.
Top Fuel Dragsters
These cars run on nitromethane and can reach speeds of up to 300mph accelerating from 0 - 100mph in under one second!
Fuel Funny Cars
These cars have the same engines as Top Fuel Dragsters and run nitromethane 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.
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. www.britishdragracing.org
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!
Nostalgia Funny Car
Funny Cars with classic body styles replicating the golden age of drag racing. www.nostalgiafunnycar.co.uk
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.
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!
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. www.outlawanglia.co.uk
Outlaw Flat Four
Heads up drag racing. Cars do not have to be VW but must have a flat four engine. www.offdrc.co.uk
VW Sportsman
Entry-level VW only drag racing with dial-your-own-ET of over 12.99 seconds. www.vwdrc.com
Wildbunch
Nostalgia slingshots, altereds and dragsters.
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. www.rwyb.co.uk
