road racing or drag racing?????

**IAPEXL8R** · 03-17-2002, 08:12 PM

what does everyone perfer?? drag racing is inexpensive but you only get 12 or so seconds of g-force.Although more expensive, at open track road racing events you can log 200 miles or more of extreme driving. The cost of vehicle set up is about the same.

**deleted** · 03-17-2002, 08:58 PM

I get dizzy doing anything but drag racing. If it's got anything with going in circles, or hard corners, no thank you.
Gimme that launch. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
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**racerguy** · 03-18-2002, 12:31 AM

I've been racing around in circles for almost 20 years now and it is a blast!
Until you've been at speed, bumper to bumper and door handle to door handle you dont know what fun is [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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**deleted2** · 03-18-2002, 03:27 AM

Ive raced road courses, 1/2 mile dirt & drag raced. Road racing is fun, costs more to enter & it's limited to the type of car you can run to be competitive. Dirt, carried too much of that home & hated the mess & all the cleaning. Although all forms of motorsports have their easy & hard places... Road & dirt you get a TON of time to recover from your mistakes, drag racing? Over in 9 seconds & if you aren't on your game every time... you go home in a hurry. I like being on my toes.

**Cobra77** · 03-18-2002, 11:33 PM

Road Racing.... I went to my first drivers event about 2 years ago at Blackhawk. It had 3 classes and I learned a lot. The instructor also let me ride along in a new model vette with 500 h.p. Lengenfelter (sp.?)

For a couple of hundred bucks, you can easily put 100 miles on your vehicle in a day's time. It's not racing against someone else, it's racing against the clock, and seeing what you can improve.

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**deleted** · 03-19-2002, 02:15 PM

I just reread the original question/statement. Where does anyone think/believe that DRAG RACING is inexpensive? Maybe for the beginner racer, (i.e. drive your car to the track, run 15-20 second ets), but I can assure you, (more to the point), my wife can assure you that even the class/point where I run is not inexpensive. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]

Going fast costs money. Period. (don't matter if you wanna go straight, or turn left/right).............[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]

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**frdnut** · 03-19-2002, 03:33 PM

I'd love to try road racing but you're first mistake could be very expensive when you kiss the guardrail.I have a chance to go to Mosport here in Canada with my mustang club and I tell myself that I could just take it easy but I know that when someone blows by me I wouldn't be able to stay out of the gas.Also the stangs not exactly set up for that sort of thing.Also love to try roundy round racing but again need a specific car and it could be totalled in a hurry.Guess I'll stick to drag racing.[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

**deleted3** · 03-19-2002, 04:34 PM

I love 'em both. Just not at the same time with the same car...[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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**Otto** · 03-19-2002, 05:02 PM

Rally racing. A number of reasons. It takes more skill to negotiate a turn since the road isn’t flat. In this kind of racing there is no wall or rail to save you. If you mess up and go off the road, you might end up at the bottom of a cliff where you have to climb out and save yourself before your car burn into molten heap of what used to be a car. It lacks the high speed of drag racing, and the car to car racing of road racing, but you get your thrill as your car goes airborne but you can only enjoy it for a split second because now the road is coming at you, and you better make a landing that even fighter pilots would be jealous of because you can’t break your car now. You still have a hundred miles to go.

**frdnut** · 03-19-2002, 05:11 PM

Rally racing might not have the speed of drag racing but I think speed is relative when your doing 70 or 80 through the trees and rocks on muddy or snowy roads,YIKKKES[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]