How to drag race a car
Beginners Drag Racing Tips (Part 1): What You Need to Know Before You Go
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hey guys a spot more ele here with the
tuning school on today's tech Tuesday
we're gonna teach you how to drag race
so stick around
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hey guys welcome back so today is part
one of a two-part series that we're
gonna run on drag racing so we got a lot
of tech support tickets here at the
tuning school some of them are related
to tuning of course and other times
people are asking general questions
about drag racing and so in order to
help everybody a little bit further
we've got some basic stuff on how to
drag race properly so number one we're
gonna educate you on what to do kind of
before and when you get there and number
two what to do so you don't screw up the
drag strip for everybody else alright so
let's get started number one anybody can
drag race and you can bring any car or
truck that you want to the drag strip
well we would request especially you
guys that rent cars make sure you turn
off your air conditioning before you
actually go to the line okay so keep
that in mind just turn off a/c as soon
as you get there because the water drips
from the bottom of the vehicle obviously
and then you track it to the line and
then other guys like us get to the drag
strip behind you and we get up to the
line and we have a crappy run because
you've brought water to the line so
first off please turn off your air
conditioning just keep that in mind
typical rookie mistake alright so number
two helmet pants and sneakers bring
something like that do not show up in
shorts usually you'll need a helmet if
you're running 13s or faster it excludes
most of your force just kidding okay
alright so make sure you bring helmet if
you need it
pants are usually required for every
type of drag strip I've ever been to and
close toed shoes alright all so let's
move to the vehicle if you're going to
the drag strip for the first time I
highly recommend you just run on your
street tires
okay everybody has some glorious idea
that they're gonna run some 9 second
pass that's just not gonna happen even
if you have a 9 second car it's usually
driver that needs improving not the car
ok so when you go the drag strip for the
first time and you have your street
tires let's talk a little bit about
getting to the burnout box ok when
you're on your street tires what you
need to do is don't drive straight
through the burnout box go through the
middle where there is no water and then
back into the burnout box again the
reason for this is when you're on street
tires you do your burnout you're going
to be not going through the box so you
don't track the water to the line with
your front tires so you can back into
the burnout box
do your burnout
then slowly pull forward and you'll be
fine you won't track water to the
burnout box alrighty so next let's say
that you have done your burnout and
you've now crept forward to the line to
the starting line so you're gonna creep
up to that tree and you'll notice
there's two beams if you look down in
the middle of the dragstrip there
there's a box and there's two laser
beams the first beam when your front of
your car trips that illuminates the very
top yellow set of lights so you'll want
to get to that and then and then very
slowly creep up to the next one which is
only inches apart so once you trip that
second beam the second set of yellow
lights comes on that cues the operator
that you are ready now your opponent is
going to do the same thing once both of
those yellow lights are tripped he's
going to push the trigger on the tree
and the tree is going to start counting
down your job at this point is to be
ready to watch for that very last yellow
bulb before the green do not wait for
the green light to go you will lose the
concept is if you leave on the very last
yellow light it takes some time for you
to push the pedal for the vehicle to
start moving so that when the light
turns green you're already moving now
this leads us into what's called your
reaction time you want to get a perfect
reaction time you don't want to leave
too soon you'll do a red light that
means you left before the light turned
green but you want to leave just as that
light turns green okay so if you do that
you'll have a much better shot at one in
the drag race now let's kind of walk
ourselves through the rest of the run
now that you've gotten yourself down and
out of the hole as we call it
you're beginning to go down through the
quarter mile you run through the first
eight of the mile which has a lot to do
with the torque output of the engine so
if you have a very torquey engine that
doesn't make much horsepower you may
notice that you take off real well but
the engine kind of falls off and the car
doesn't really accelerate as hard on the
top end you'll have a good eight mile
time but not a great quarter mile time
which you'll see reflected in your time
slip which is actually the topic of the
next tech Tuesday video we'll go ahead
and explain that in detail so as you're
going through the eighth mile and you
keep it pedal to the metal all the way
to the finish line you'll see the drag
strips finish line is really paint
on the ground you'll then slowly come to
a to a crawl and then exit as you're
going down the return road back to a
shack there's usually some called some
type of a shack where they have a timing
shack that's what it's called and they
will give you a time slip once you get
this time slip continue on find your pit
and review your time now keep in mind
there's a whole lot of things you can do
to improve your quarter-mile time but
oftentimes guys try and fix the car
first but if you're a beginner at the
drag strip just keep this in mind
usually the car is not the problem yes
you can tweak the car a little bit but
the reality is you as the driver will
make the very best improvements that you
can I've taken a car for running mid 13s
all the way down to mid 12s without
changing one thing on the car and it all
had to do with me the driver my
preparation my launch procedure how hard
to launch the car how not to spin the
tires all these things add up so before
we close this video let's do a quick
overview you've gone through the quarter
mile you've got your time slip and the
quick review is this I'm gonna look at
my ET and mile-per-hour now the e T
stands for elapsed time
that tells you how quick the car was and
how quickly it got through the quarter
mile in seconds and the last thing
you're gonna review is the mile per hour
that's less y'all fast the car is and
that is also in obviously mile per hour
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Tuesday where we talk about in detail
the time slip results and how early its
to tuning your vehicle so thanks for
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