There’s more than one way to make money drag racing, but every racer will tell you it’s a lot easier to lose money going to the races than it is to make money. In fact, the old adage of “It’s easy to make a million dollars going drag racing, just start out with two million; you’ll be down to one million in no time.” There’s a lot of truth to that racing cliché, especially as it applies to “No-Time” drag racing.
For the uninitiated, No-Time drag racing, properly expressed as N/T racing, is drag racing from a heads up start, usually run in eighth-mile format, first car across the finish line wins: but the clocks are turned off, no elapsed times are shown. Hence the expression No-Time racing. Because the clocks are turned off, the drama level is high, it’s all about winning. Winning what you ask? Well, cash of course. Cubic inches cost cubic dollars, and this is what fuels life in the fast lane. In God, We Trust – but all participants pay cash.