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drag racingMotor sport popular in the USA. High-powered single-seater cars with large rear and small front wheels are timed over a 402.2 m/440 yd strip. Speeds of up to 530 kph/330 mph have been attained by the fastest type of drag-racing cars, ‘top fuel’ dragsters - the other categories of professional drag-racing vehicles are ‘funny cars’, ‘pro-stock’, and ‘pro-stock bikes’. |
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Some East Valley streets, such as Glenoaks Boulevard, have been popular among drag racers since the 1960s. It's usually joked that drag racers don't know how to turn. Drag racers vied legally on Terminal Island from 1974 to 1984, but the Los Angeles Harbor Commission closed it down and dug up the dirt there to mix it with dirt being dredged from the harbor for landfill, Robinson says. |
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