Drag racing was born in post WWII America. In the late 1940s hot rodders lined up on empty airstrips and desert roads in Southern California to see who was fastest in a straight line. What started as street races grew into a real motorsport when the NHRA was founded in 1951, bringing safety rules, timing equipment, official classes and purpose built drag strips. Everything we know today about quarter mile runs, burnouts, Christmas tree lights and record setting passes traces back to that early A