About the Super Comp Car Class in NHRA Racing

Video Transcript

"TINA STULL: Hi, I'm Tina Stull and I drive the Top Dragster for Interstate Batteries. On behalf of Expert Village, today, we're going to talk about the basics of racing. Then we go to Super Comp which--in the Super Comp class, it's an 890 index. You can run both cars or dragsters, the real dragsters. Typically, it's considered the real dragster class. It's set on 890 and it features a head-up competition. So you both leave the starting line, you leave on a pro tree, which is a [SOUNDS LIKE] 4-0 tree, and it's one of the largest classes. They usually run a hundred plus cars. I've seen some of the larger events having more than 200 cars. So you've gotta be good and lucky on that one. Then you go to Super Gas. Super Gas is a lot like Super Comp, only it's a 990 index and there are no real dragsters allowed. So this is all going to be door cars. They have to have full fenders, hoods, grills, tops, windshields and functional doors on this. The left-sided roadsters are allowed, but not center-steered roadsters. It's governed by the same rules as Super Comp. Just with that different index, it's also a heads-up tree, so you're talking a pro tree."