Drag racing book or site

[Mr Core]

Does anybody know a good book or website about drag racing cars? As far as I know, this type of racing doens't exist in Belgium but I'm starting to like it. So I'm looking for a book or website with information and references for a newbie (car specifications, the different types of cars ... ) since I don't know anything about it. Any suggestions?

Grtz

Cor

[rckymtn3]

http://www.nhra.com/nhra101/classes.aspx

http://www.nhra.com/nhra101/basics.aspx

http://www.nhra.com/glossary.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_racing

that should get you started....just start reading (these are very brief explanations) and then when you want to know more about something, just google that term....luckily, it's a very popular autosport....(no matter what NASCAR says, Drag Racing is the biggest autosport in terms of contestants)

[1320wayne]

Try www.motorbooks.com some of the best literature out there with great reference pictures for so many different forms of racing.

[pharr7226]

Try www.motorbooks.com some of the best literature out there with great reference pictures for so many different forms of racing.

That website is awesome. I could drop a lot of cash there on reference material. Thanks for posting it Wayne.

[Mr Core]

Kevin, thanks for the links. It has some good basic information

Wayne, thanks for the website but I had already found that one. Before I posted my question I googled 'drag racing book', but there are soooo many of them. It's pretty difficult to just choose one. I hoped that someone could recommend one, or two, or more

Cor

Edited March 12, 2012 by Mr Core

[Dragracer]

Cor, heres a few titles of books that I have in my collection. Now you will notice that I'm mainly into Funny Cars (Pro-Mods now also, but no books on Pro-Mods in my collection), so here they are : Funny Cars, Funny Car Fever, Drag Racing Funny Cars of the 60's, Drag Racing Funny Cars of the 70's (the only thing wrong with these last 2 books 60's-70's, are they are printed in black & white, no color pictures, but some great photros none-the-less),Fabulous Funny Cars, Diggers-Funnies-Gassers & Alterds & finally American Drag Racing. All those books are great reading. Hope this helps you a little.