oooh, good song, no? Anyway, I've seen two drag events recently on television and to my suprise, they were 1/8 mile events. that's right, 1/8 mile. Why? Isn't 1/4 mile a better milestone for a drag race? Did they just get bored or are there radically different dynamics when running a 1/8 mile car vs a 1/4 mile car? I'm alittle perplexed. Just a leeetle

I always thought the 1/8 mile was for slower cars. The only think i've ssen the 8th mile used for at my dragstrip is for those little kid drag racers that are powered by snowmobile engines. They do it in 9 seconds, but that would be like 20 seconds on the quarter. So it's for slower cars.

I always thought the 1/8 mile was for slower cars. The only think i've ssen the 8th mile used for at my dragstrip is for those little kid drag racers that are powered by snowmobile engines. They do it in 9 seconds, but that would be like 20 seconds on the quarter. So it's for slower cars.

Thats not totally the case, some tracks are just a 1/8 mile do to space concerns.

And dude a 9 sec 1/8 mile is actually pretty quick, thats in the 13's in the 1/4.......

hmmmmm. Interesting. I would have assumed since the accleration was so rapid in the begining, that it would just get slower. After all, they were little snowmobile type engines.

The acceleration gets slower but when they reach the 1/8 line they already have a high speed so they cover distances more rapidly...

it takes them longer to go far when they're still building up speed, but they've reached that speed they can cover the same distance in close to half the time