Why is there 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile racing?
11-04-2007, 10:49 AM
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RE: Why is there 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile racing?
1/4 mile is more fun, but it's a lot easier to build and maintain a smaller 1/8 mile track.
1/8 proponents will say that street races don't go a full 1/4 mile anyway, whichI can tell you by experience is not true but whatev.
I dunno which came first.
1/8 proponents will say that street races don't go a full 1/4 mile anyway, whichI can tell you by experience is not true but whatev.
I dunno which came first.
11-04-2007, 10:59 AM
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RE: Why is there 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile racing?
ORIGINAL: 88TTop
Why is there 1/4 mile and 1/8 mile racing? And which came first?
Why is there 1/4 mile and 1/8 mile racing? And which came first?
Here is a video of how the NHRA started along with drag racing 1/4 mile style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A--x1zIKUCg
11-04-2007, 11:25 AM
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RE: Why is there 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile racing?
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1/4 mile is more fun, but it's a lot easier to build and maintain a smaller 1/8 mile track.
1/8 proponents will say that street races don't go a full 1/4 mile anyway, whichI can tell you by experience is not true but whatev.
I dunno which came first.
1/4 mile is more fun, but it's a lot easier to build and maintain a smaller 1/8 mile track.
1/8 proponents will say that street races don't go a full 1/4 mile anyway, whichI can tell you by experience is not true but whatev.
I dunno which came first.
11-04-2007, 11:29 AM
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RE: Why is there 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile racing?
Starting 1/4th mile facilities is increadibly expensive like someone mentioned. Just to give you an idea, I'm good friends with the owner of a local airport here. It's a 3,000 foot long runway and it cost him about 70-80 grand to pave it. Thats no prep work on the ground, just the paving. A 1/4th mile strip is probably longer than that with stopping room. They also have to prep the ground before paving, have a seriously prepped surface that takes constant maintenance, buildings, other facilities, parking, crews, ect. An 1/8th mile isn't cheap to start or run, but you really multiply the costs when upping it to 1/4th.
11-04-2007, 12:37 PM
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RE: Why is there 1/8 mile and 1/4 mile racing?
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Starting 1/4th mile facilities is increadibly expensive like someone mentioned. Just to give you an idea, I'm good friends with the owner of a local airport here. It's a 3,000 foot long runway and it cost him about 70-80 grand to pave it. Thats no prep work on the ground, just the paving. A 1/4th mile strip is probably longer than that with stopping room. They also have to prep the ground before paving, have a seriously prepped surface that takes constant maintenance, buildings, other facilities, parking, crews, ect. An 1/8th mile isn't cheap to start or run, but you really multiply the costs when upping it to 1/4th.
Starting 1/4th mile facilities is increadibly expensive like someone mentioned. Just to give you an idea, I'm good friends with the owner of a local airport here. It's a 3,000 foot long runway and it cost him about 70-80 grand to pave it. Thats no prep work on the ground, just the paving. A 1/4th mile strip is probably longer than that with stopping room. They also have to prep the ground before paving, have a seriously prepped surface that takes constant maintenance, buildings, other facilities, parking, crews, ect. An 1/8th mile isn't cheap to start or run, but you really multiply the costs when upping it to 1/4th.
airplane-runways don't need to be as-smooth as a drag-strip (which usually have 600' of more-expensive concrete off the starting-line ), and the going-rate for doing a decent-job on a drag-strip is approaching $300,000, minimum, for a 1/4-mile facility.
Briton Smith had the surface at Bristol done TWICE this year, just to make-sure it was good-enough for the National Event held there:
follow-along as he builds the next great strip in N.C., possible near LOWES Motor Speedway.
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