Racing Passes for the NHRA

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Tina Stull and I drive the Top Dragster for Interstate Batteries. On behalf of Expert Village, I'm here to help you walk through the process of filling out the forms so that you can compete in the NHRA. When it comes to an application, they want, if you're a brand new beginner and you've never raced before. You need to go through the initial licensing process. You need make six passes, a minimum of six passes at an NHRA sanctioned track. If you want to know what tracks are sanctioned, you can go on NHRA.com and look up their tracks and some of the tracks are the ones where we have national events, and there large tracks. But there are a lot of smaller tracks and even some eighth mile tracks that are sanctioned. So they'll accept those times of slips from them. When you're at the track doing your pass, you do basically a half pass, which means you just go out. They expect it to be slow. It's kind of basically can you get off the line. Then you have three moderate passes, which are basically passes where you don't have to go full speed all the way to the finish line. You do go full speed to the half track mark. You'll have two full passes. Those two full passes, you'll be driving your car at the speed that you'll be competing with within those parameters. All that can be found in the rule books. It's a lot straighter forward than it sounds. Those are just full passes where you're driving the car all the way through the finish line."