Persuasive Essay~Drag Racing

Drag racing is so much fun if you are able to go and see it live. When racing is over you are able to go up to the racers stands and their tents to get some autographs for them. They travel all over the United States. When I go I go to the Brainerd International Raceway and Resort.

            When we go, we go for the experience and it is a really fun place to be. They have Funny Cars, Top Fuel, and Pro Stock Motorcycles. Last year the winner of Funny car was Bob Bode and it was his first win so far. Larry Dixon was the first in Top Fuel; Andrew Hines was first in Pro Stock motorcycle. And Jeg Coughlin Jr. won in Pro Stock to earn his fifth Brainerd Wally.

            But actually meeting these people is a fun time. They sometimes even tell you the story of their first race. Even if you have never watched it on TV or something, go to one in person. The first time I ever went, I never watched NHRA. But one year I went and have been going ever since. It’s been three years already.

            Just going to Brainerd for 2 days is a good and easy time to hang out with friends and family. Even though the tickets are a little expensive for one person, you’ll know in the end. If it’s a rainy weekend you can still make it fun if they can’t dry off the tracks. While they are working on cars or working on the track, it’s so easy just to have a good time.

            The Funny Car is one of the “professional” classes like Top Fuel, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle. These cars have forward-mounted engines and carbon fiber automotive bodies over the chassis.

            Top Fuel runs on a mix of around ninety percent nitro methane and ten percent methanol. These cars are much longer, narrower, and equipped with large tires in the back and small tires in the front in order to maximize their straight-line acceleration and speed.

Pro Stock cars are limited a 4-barrel carburetor intake systems. They can be “split” so that each of the halves can be more accurately positioned over the slightly staggered intake runners. Pro Stock Motorcycle, or Pro Stock Bike, has been racing since the 1980s. It is a class that has two-wheeled equivalent of Pro Stock. That’s why I think that people should experience going to a drag racing raceway to watch. It will all be worth it in the end.

NHRA vs. Nascar

In the National Hot Rod Association, has a lot of varieties in NHRA. If you are ever offered for the chance to be able to go to one live, go to it, it’s all worth it in the end. These people who race travel all over the United States, but the nearest one most people go to is Brainerd International Raceway and Resort.
    When people go to this raceway, most just go for the experience. The varieties it has are Funny Cars, Top Fuel, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycles. Meeting the people who race at these things is so much fun. When I meet some of these people, it’s a really amazing time because they might sometimes tell you the story of the first time they ever drove in a race live. These people that race are of all different ages, cultures, everything. If you are able just to talk to them while they are at their tent working on their car or something, go up and talk to them.
    If you have never watched it on TV or anything, you should try to go to one in person. The first time I went, I never watched on television, but I went to it anyway and have been going to it for the past three years now. It’s so much just to hang out with people that you don’t even know but you get to know. The only bad part that could happen is when it rains and that's when they have to postpone or cancel the races. If they can’t dry off the track or if it keeps on raining, they cancel the races for that day. That’s the only bad part.
    When people race against each other, only two people race at a time. They are of all different ages. The raceway is only one fourth of a mile. In that time a Top Fuel Car will get up to three hundred miles per hour within four seconds. Funny Cars get around two hundred and eighty within 4 seconds. Pro Stock will get around two hundred and five in seven seconds. And Pro Stock Motorcycle will get one hundred and ninety in seven seconds. When they race, they go almost all year round, because it goes from February all the way until November.
    In NASCAR the percent of having male drivers is seventy-six percent. The percentage of younger drivers is eighteen percent for the ages eighteen to twenty four. Twenty-eight of them would be more likely to be African American, and thirty-four percent to be Hispanic. The seven unique markets would be Denver, Houston, NY/NJ, Ohio, Seattle, San Francisco, and Minnesota.
    NHRA is the largest drag racing body with over three hundred thousand racers, and one hundred and forty tracks across North America. Millions of people come to these races every year. Some of these people that go all over the United States just to watch these people just because they are so into the National Hot Rod Association.