The history of street racing

Believe the founders of street racing Americans. During the war there were built numerous airfields, which were widely used from 1939 to 1945, and at its end, when residents gradually returned to its normal rhythm of life, airfields were used as routes for the races. They are ideal for racing: a long straight flat road, and along it comfortably situated viewers. The flowering of street racing in America was in the middle of the XX century. Although before the war, a little later than in England, the American youth was fascinated by the modifications of cars and motorcycles, creating a platform models of those years their own "hot rod" (the so-called sport utility vehicles were manufactured without a factory). During the war, street racers, to dissolve and chased in the streets of Los Angeles, inspire fear and causing resentment among residents of the city, because the noise from the engine performance and exhaust emissions could exceed 100 decibels. Races were held on straight stretches of road, the start began at the stop line lights when the green light, cars screeching budge and raced a race. Speedy check-in is a race of two vehicles in two lanes at a certain distance, for which they should be dispersed as quickly as possible, but some of them crosses the finish lane first. When the war ended, Americans could buy a car (about 80% of vehicles manufactured at Ford) for practically nothing. This was the beginning of an era of garage improvements - young people literally hung day and night in the pits, inventing ever new ways to increase the capacity of machines. The first American race was held in California in the Mojave Desert on a dry lake - the participants went on leveled ground, and the audience watching them at a safe altitude. The length of the route is either a quarter or a half-mile (402 and 804 meters respectively). According to the calculations, it is this distance is most suitable for overclocking, and presentation-building machines, check-in takes about a minute (plus or minus a few seconds, depending on the capacity of hot-birth) and the audience time to get a considerable adrenaline rush. Who knows where this could lead - the police tried to catch drivers that prevent residents of the city, organize competitions on public roads, it was harder and more dangerous. But once an ardent fan of street racing Valley Park agreed with the Government to establish a route for drag racing, which over time has been built in the city of Goleta. Some time later, this form of racing has been recognized as legal. Official status championships allowed many more people to join this movement. Now in America, a great many championships, tournaments and races, and the number of street racing is more than five million people. Hot rod owners have created their own association, which is constantly added members, and competitions, which they arrange, collect thousands of people. The vehicle is an automobile, motorcycle, or any other technical device, equipped with a motor and wheels, and propelled without human assistance. To overtake rival racers have upgraded their cars through technical improvements. Later, these improvements will be called tuning. As already mentioned, the race is possible on cars, motorcycles, as well as specially designed dregsterah. Most prevalent in the world have received professional series: Top Fuel, where they played classic dregstery or motorcycles, used as fuel nitromethane, Funny Car - dregstery, closed dull plastic body, are copies of production cars. Analogue of this series for motorcycles is Funny Bike, which is attended by bikes on alcohol or gasoline, designed specifically for drag racing. Another group consists of production cars and motorcycles converted for participation in such races. It is at these competitions are held in our country. This group is incredibly popular all over the world, since almost any fan of drag racing can easily find your own car racing at high speed along the miracle of technical ideas.