It's no accident that all the really fast, small-tired cars (like those that run in NMCA's Super Street or NHRA's Stock Eliminator) yank the front tires 2 feet in the air on the starting line.

Limiting traction has been a popular concept in street-legal drag racing since it went mainstream over 30 years ago with HOT ROD's Fastest Street Car Shootout. In those days, the Super Street category ...

Without traction, nothing else matters in drag racing. More force on the rear tires means more traction. Rear-wheel drive drag cars rely on weight transfer when the car launches to provide additional ...

There is no better way to learn about the importance of certain aspects of a car than throughout the process of building one. While building my first race car, I began to understand just how important ...