Drag Racing League competitors race are called Jr. Dragsters and are half-scale versions of Top Fuel dragsters. Using a five-horsepower, single-cylinder engine, a Jr. Dragster can go as fast as 85 mph and as quick as 7. Drag Racing League competitors race are called Jr. Dragsters and are half-scale versions of Top Fuel dragsters. Using a five-horsepower, single-cylinder engine, a Jr. Dragster can go as fast as 85 mph and as quick as 7. The car park is full of muscle cars, which I thread nervously between in my two-door Ford Focus.
I was there to cover the Junior Dragster Championship, a race in which children, some as young as seven years old, clamber into strange, high-powered vehicles and race each other at high speeds. A junior dragster is a smaller scaled-down version of a top fuel dragster, which is the fastest type of car used for drag racing.
Drag racing is a type of motor racing where vehicles, normally either drag cars or motorcycles, drive down a short, straight course, competing two at a time to be the first to cross a set finish line. Junior dragster cars were developed in New Zealand in , and were quickly adopted across the racing world.
Most of the kids seem well under ten years old. All of them have serious looks on their faces. This is an event in which their mettle is to be tested, with potential glory for a lucky few. When I mention that this is my first drag race, Kathy proceeds to give me a friendly, if confounding, rundown of the ins and outs of the sport.
They may run only in their delegated times. The youngest group run to The age divisions determine the maximum speed at which competitors can race. The age group can finish the course at a minimum time of If a racer crosses the finish line any faster they are disqualified. The older the child, the quicker the time, the faster the speed. The year old age group can run a 7. Complicating this is the fact drivers are not just driving down a track, they are racing a competitor. It is a complicated game of motorised cat and mouse which is all over in about ten seconds.
Drag Racing League programs where kids can race to earn points toward track championships in their age group. When Vince Napp right , an NHRA member-track owner with a passion for drag racing, built a half-scale dragster for his kids in , he never dreamed that his invention would launch an exciting new sport for thousands of young people across North America.
But that's exactly what happened. Napp showed his Jr. Dragster to NHRA officials in early , a timely presentation considering that NHRA had already been planning a publication for its younger drag racing fans. The Jr. NHRA unveiled the Jr.
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