the press just doesn't get it...

[Pat]

when will these clowns get it right?? Gwinnett Daily Post | Cops: Used car dealer drag raced in front of Duluth PD

 

[MHayes]

Re: the press jut doesn't get it...

when will these clowns get it right?? Gwinnett Daily Post | Cops: Used car dealer drag raced in front of Duluth PD

I get your point, but you have to remember that "drag racing" is a generic term. Try looking up "drag race" in the dictionary and you will find that it is simply "an acceleration contest between vehicles" per Webster's and "a race between two or more automobiles starting from a standstill, the winner being the car that can accelerate the fastest" per Dictionary.com.

Those are a sample of the accepted definitions and why the term is used the way it is in the media and most everywhere else outside of the formal sport of drag racing (i.e. NHRA, IHRA, etc.).

 

[StockersRock]

Re: the press jut doesn't get it...

I get your point, but you have to remember that "drag racing" is a generic term. Try looking up "drag race" in the dictionary and you will find that it is simply "an acceleration contest between vehicles" per Webster's and "a race between two or more automobiles starting from a standstill, the winner being the car that can accelerate the fastest" per Dictionary.com.

Those are a sample of the accepted definitions and why the term is used the way it is in the media and most everywhere else outside of the formal sport of drag racing (i.e. NHRA, IHRA, etc.).

Thank you. If people don't get the difference between what they see on the 6pm news, and what they see on Sunday night on ESPN2, then they will never get it, or never cared to begin with.

 

[Muddy]

Re: the press jut doesn't get it...

Thank you. If people don't get the difference between what they see on the 6pm news, and what they see on Sunday night on ESPN2, then they will never get it, or never cared to begin with.

Sadly many watch the 6pm news but few watch ESPN2 when drag racing is on.

 

[Nick Name]

Re: the press jut doesn't get it...

I get your point, but you have to remember that "drag racing" is a generic term. Try looking up "drag race" in the dictionary and you will find that it is simply "an acceleration contest between vehicles" per Webster's and "a race between two or more automobiles starting from a standstill, the winner being the car that can accelerate the fastest" per Dictionary.com.

Those are a sample of the accepted definitions and why the term is used the way it is in the media and most everywhere else outside of the formal sport of drag racing (i.e. NHRA, IHRA, etc.).

Absolutely correct. There was drag racing long before there ever was a drag strip. It can happen anywhere two vehicles can line up side by side and have a go.

To think that somehow, NHRA or and other hra owns the term is one of the most ridicouless things I see posted on the internet.

Where the media really gets it wrong is when they call any kind of speed contest a drag race.

 

[Toejam]

Re: the press jut doesn't get it...

Thank you. If people don't get the difference between what they see on the 6pm news, and what they see on Sunday night on ESPN2, then they will never get it, or never cared to begin with.

What he said^^^

 

[Bubba]

I wouldn't buy a used car from that loser.

 

[rocketman]

Yep, two cars can be speeding down the street with the drivers not even knowing each other and then get pulled over and its a drag race.

I was on the Parkway the other day and the guy next to me in the slow lane had to speed up when I tried to pass. I finally let up because I know what would happen if we passed a cop. It would have been "Local Drag Racer Cited for Drag Racing on Parkway" in the paper.

 

[StockersRock]

Re: the press jut doesn't get it...

Sadly many watch the 6pm news but few watch ESPN2 when drag racing is on.

Good point.

 

[mw6789]

The writer of this article is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. It is a floor plan----not a "flow plan" that dealers use to finance inventory. And if having a car on your "flow plan" makes your dealer tag illegal, then 99% of all dealers are illegal.