Jr. Drag Racing 101: USA Trivia Quiz

Answer: 5

Any child can start racing at age 5 (trainee category), with restrictions in place re engine size. The age was reduced from 8 years of age to 5 years on June 15th, 2014.

Answer: False

Thirteen and up is restricted to 85 mph at 7.90 seconds.

Answer: 1

The engine is a base 5 horse power Briggs and Straton motor. More commonly a lawn mower motor. They are then bored out up to 3 & 3/4 inches piston size. This allows an original 5 horse power motor to have 50 horse power.

Answer: J.R. Todd

In 2006 he earned his first career victory at Denver. Todd also earned victories at Sonoma and Reading and posted a runner-up finish at Las Vegas. He won the Auto Club Road to the Future award, which recognizes NHRA's top performing rookie driver. A total of 4 Top Fuel wins and 5 final round appearances in Top Fuel.

Answer: True

When Vince Napp, an NHRA member-track owner with a passion for drag racing, built a half-scale dragster for his kids in 1991, he never dreamed that his invention would launch an exciting new sport for thousands of young people across North America.
Napp showed his Jr. Dragster to NHRA officials in early 1992, a timely presentation considering that NHRA had already been planning a publication for its younger drag racing fans. NHRA unveiled the Jr. Dragsters July 9, 1992, during the 23rd annual Mopar Parts Nationals at Napp's Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, N.J. Two more dragsters were built, and an exhibition tour continued at the remaining 10 national events of the 1992 season.
The response was overwhelmingly positive. NHRA member tracks began adding JDRL programs, and dozens of builders began filling orders for Jr. Dragsters. Racers began competing at local tracks in 1993 as the League grew at an astounding rate.

Answer: False

Of the Jr. Drag Racing League's roughly 4,500 members, about 35 percent are girls. And growing everyday.

Answer: 1/8th of a mile

A drag race is an acceleration contest between two vehicles over a measured distance, usually a quarter-mile (1,320 feet). Jr. Dragsters compete over a distance of no more than an eighth-mile (660 feet).

Answer: Top Fuel Dragster

The cars that Jr. Drag Racing League competitors race are called Jr. Dragsters and are half-scale versions of Top Fuel dragsters.

Answer: Eastern Conference Finals (ECF) and Western Conference Finals (WCF)

Each season, the JDRL continues to achieve new levels of success. More than 10 years after the first exhibition run, the JDRL has approximately 4,500 participants, who compete at about 130 tracks across the country. The NHRA O'Reilly Auto Parts Jr. Drag Racing League Eastern and Western Conference Finals are the premier events of the JDRL season, each awarding Wallys and close to $100,000 in savings bonds every year.

Answer: National Hot Rod Association

When Wally Parks became editor of the monthly enthusiast magazine Hot Rod, he had the forum and the power to form the National Hot Rod Association in 1951 to "create order from chaos" by instituting safety rules and performance standards that helped legitimize the sport. He was its first president.