I was at the Arizona Nationals NHRA event yesterday with a non drag race friend we were watching the top fuel cars get 1/2 way down the track then have something mess up on their car about 1/2 made a full pass. Then the 9.90 class started. He ask me how come running about 9.90 some would go through the traps going 165MPH and the guy he was racing would go also 9.90 running about 130MPH. I told him to listen as they would start off the line they would launch hard then go to a idle coasting down the track then a couple of seconds later the car would go back to full throttle and run a 9.90, He thought this was really strange, I told him some of those cars could run in the 7's He thought some of the things NHRA does is boring I guess this is why some fake street racing on a closed road on TV show is so popular