A friend who races asked me what the word Drag has to do with dragracing. You don't go down the track with an anchor behind you. Seems like it could be called Match, or Off the line racing. Who knows the origin?
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Back in the old day they used to call the main street of a town "The Main DRAG". So if you were racing down the main street you were racing the main drag. Just a guess.
We used to go downtown and cruise main st and we called it Draging main. We were usually either looking for a race or a car full of girls.
Dirt roads were made and maintained by dragging a heavy bar or frame referred to as a "drag" along the ground. Today the term drag refers to any device that is towed behind a tractor or earth mover for the purpose of smoothing the ground. You'll see the field maintenance crew at a baseball game drag a bar or section of chain link fence around the diamond between innings, those things are called drags. You'll also see earthmovers dragging barrell shapped devices on road construction jobs, housing sites, etc. Those too are called drags.
Sometime in the early 20th century, dirt roads built with the use of a drag came to be known as "drags" themselves, the term is still synonomous for a street, even though our streets are paved with asphalt and no longer maintained with drags.
Drag racing is a sport whose roots are found in small town America at the end of world war II, two guys with hot rods would race down a straight smooth street (called a drag, daddy-oh) to see whos rod could accelerate the fastest. Its was the most, a real cool scene. Dig it?
cowboy from hell
Sometime in the early 20th century, dirt roads built with the use of a drag came to be known as "drags" themselves, the term is still synonomous for a street, even though our streets are paved with asphalt and no longer maintained with drags.
Drag racing is a sport whose roots are found in small town America at the end of world war II, two guys with hot rods would race down a straight smooth street (called a drag, daddy-oh) to see whos rod could accelerate the fastest. Its was the most, a real cool scene. Dig it?
cowboy from hell
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AAHH! The infinite wisdom of the Pibb! Thanks George..............I'll go along with that 