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Let's face it-- track talk can be a little intimidating.

Our Crash Course can help boost your trackside savvy by helping you understand NASCAR terms, the Chase Point System and NHRA Drag terms, American Le Mans Series unique four races within a race competition, and other racing circuits. We'll get you up to speed (pun intended) on the basic rules, explian the Sanctioning Bodies' regulations and help you identify the drivers' skills and racing strategies.

We also translate the racing lingo; a language unique to motorsports.

Track Chic Members can always ask questions, get answers and share their passion with other members in our Chic Chat forum … the Chat Room built exclusively for female race fans.
NHRA® DRAG  
Burnout
The process of spinning the rear wheels in water at very high RPM to heat and clean the tire rubber immediately prior to the run to increase traction.
Christmas Tree
The electronic starting device that incorporates calibrated lights creating a visual countdown for each driver and signals the drivers staging status as well as the start of the run. A driver is staged when the front wheels of the car are on the starting line and the small yellow light below the pre-staged light on his or her side of the Christmas tree is illuminated; once a driver is staged, the calibrated countdown of the amber lights leading to the green start light may begin at any time.
Deep Staged
If after a driver is properly staged, he or she rolls a few inches and causes the pre-stage light to go out.
Dropped Cylinder
The cylinder becomes inoperable because there is too much fuel in the air-to-fuel mixture preventing the spark plug(s) from firing.
E.T.
Elapsed time; the precise time it takes to go from the starting line to the finish line.
Foul Start
Leaving the starting line before the green light starting signal.
Holeshot
The starting-line advantage achieved by a driver with faster reactions.
Nitromethane
Fuel produced specificaly for drag racing, it is the result of a chemical reaction between nitric acid and propane.
Reaction Time
Measured in thousandths of a second, it is the time it takes for a driver to react to the green starting light on the Christmas tree.



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