THE STRAIGHT LINE
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s you all know this is the drag issue and time has flew full speed since I graced the cover of the first drag issue last year with “Capo Decoded”. It was truly a honor. A lot has happen since then and guess what I’ll be kicking it about is good ol’ drag racing! Drag racing is a very competitive sport, for those who don’t know I grew up all my life around it. So you can say I was bred to be a racer and it is in my bloodline. When I was I kid growing up at the racetrack with my parents I used to dream about taking a pass on my 50cc little Honda down the dragstrip. Personally, I’ve been drag racing since 1999. Here’s some knowledge for those who don’t know much about the sport... A basic overview definition “drag racing” is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete, usually two at a time, to be first to cross a set finish line. The race follows a straight course from a standing start over a measured distance, most commonly a quarter mile or 1320 feet, with a shorter 1,000 feet for some top fuel dragsters and funny cars in NHRA, while 660 feet or one eight of a mile is also popular in some areas in the south. Electronic timing and speed sensing systems have been used to record race results since the 1960’s. Not gonna flood you with too much technical info but another part of racing we do is called “Bracket” or “Index” racing. Besides the Pro class Real Street, I run with my bike “Goldie” that is a “Heads up” class as described above first to the finish line wins, I also run two Index classes for the MIRock SuperBike Series Crazy 8’s with my bike the “Hurricane” and 5.60 a 1/8 mile class with “Baby Boy”. My first love and where I earned tons of wins and strips is bracket racing. You run on a “dial in” versus
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