Talk:Drag racing
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Just a comment
I've been drag racing for over 25 years now, and I'm also somewhat of a writer. I think if we clean it up a little and add some pictures and a couple of more sections, this could make the 'featured article' list. Cliff
I was thinking about grabbing a picture of a christmas tree today, but since it's late I couldn't think of anywhere to get it that wouldn't be a copyvio. I'll do some searching when I'm more awake. Mo0[talk] 05:13, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Sounds cool, Mo0. I can scan in some pics of a car doing a serious wheelie, and probably any other drag racing thing you can think of. But my scanner's not hooked up. These are all my pictures, so no copyvi problems...more later. Cliff clifffster@earthlink.net
Well, I got registered and uploaded one of my pics. I hope it doesn't get deleted, I couldn't find all those copyright or copyleft (or whatever, that stuff confused the hell me) forms are. Some of the pics I have are mine, and some I got years ago off the 'net, but have no clue where they came from or when exactly I got them. --Cliffster 16:43, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
recent adds
Good work, Cliff. --Pmeisel 22:15, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Well, thanks, I appreciate it, Pmeisel. I'm old, but I'm trying. I'm shooting for the "Featured Article" thing. I'll do my best, but I need help (isn't that what this is all about?). The Holy Grail of articles. I've seen some of the critics of potentials, and we need to fillin the red links with blue (I'll fix that). Also, we're gonna catcb hell for "too long" and "not enough detail", which is typical.
BTW, I didn't start this article, I'm just adding on. No matter how you cut it, the original poster gets the credit, one way or the other. I'd just be happy to be a piece of it :) --Cliffster 23:23, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Photo caption
Just a point - the picture which claims to be of a Top Fuel dragster is actually a Top Methanol dragster raced out of Malta and shown performing a burnout at Santa Pod (http://santapod.co.uk/), the UK's main drag strip.
Martin
Popularity
Some more information on the popularity of the sport would be nice. Also, I'm a bit confused by the sentence "Drag racing originated in the United States and is still the most popular there" in the first paragraph. The most popular what there? Kind of car race? Or does it mean "and is still most popular [relative to other countries] there"? --LostLeviathan 14:24, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Mistake in sentence
I get no sense in the sentence " the astounding performance of 0 to 330 mph to 0 in 20 seconds can be obtained! " I suppose it should be "... 330 to 0 mph in 20 seconds..." ? In particular as it seems to be obtained by using parachutes... \Mikez 19:27, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- I belive it is 0 to 330 to 0 in 20 seconds and have changed it accordingly. Also some infomation about .5 and .4 trees should be added and infomation about how racers may be disqualfied --2mcm 08:34, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- It's been done - check out "Drag racing strategies and methods. (I wrote it) Cliff
more cleanup needed
the whole drag racing section, this article, the individual top fuel, top alcohol, etc. articles, etc. really need a big reorganization. I might get around to it sometime, but if anyone wants to jump in now, feel free.......Gzuckier 03:32, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
