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Drag racing is a competition in which specially prepared automobiles or motorcycles compete, usually two at a time, to be the first to cross a set finish line.
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The western part of the county is home to a large racing complex in Concord, including Charlotte Motor Speedway, which hosts three NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events a year, The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and zMAX Dragway, which now hosts the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series twice a year.
Milan is known regionally for its Automobile Drag racing venue, the Milan Dragway even though it is actually in London Township, Michigan.
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Drag on a flat plate is closer to being linear with the angle of inclination as opposed to acting quadratically at low angles.
He is best known for directing cult horror / comedy films the Evil Dead series, the action / superhero film Darkman, crime thriller A Simple Plan and supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker ( also the creator ) and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
Drag is a mechanical means of applying variable pressure to the turning spool in order to act as a friction brake against it.
There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft of " A Real Slow Drag " by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher.
Merritt is gay, and his lyrics are known for bending and blurring gender lines ; examples include the song " When My Boy Walks Down the Street ", which contains the lyric " and he's going to be my wife ," and on the single " Andrew in Drag ", from the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea, he sings, " A pity she does not exist, a shame he's not a fag.
It is one of the largest such festivals in the world, and includes a variety of events such as the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and Party, Bondi Beach Drag Races, Harbour Party, the academic discussion panel Queer Thinking, Mardi Gras Film Festival, as well as Fair Day, which attracts 70, 000 people to Victoria Park, Sydney.
The International Drag King Community Extravaganza ( IDKE ) is the largest yearly gatherings of drag performers aimed at celebrating gender performance and exploration of gender issues, now in its ninth year.
The San Francisco Drag King Contest has been called " A parade of gender-bending eye candy " by SF Weekly and the producer of the show is community activist and performer Lu Read, a. k. a. Fudgie Frottage.
Another yearly gathering was the now defunct, or at least temporarily so, The Great Big International Drag King Show in Washington, D. C., created by Ken Vegas, who is also founder of the DC Kings
Drag increases rapidly as pellets are pushed past the speed of sound, so it is generally better to increase pellet weight to keep velocities subsonic in high-powered guns.
Today, the car is popular for import Drag Racing, Circuit Track, Time Attack and events hosted by tuning magazines.
Drag is increased by use of flaps ( devices on the wings ) and by a forward slip ( causing the aeroplane to fly somewhat sideways though the air to increase drag ).
Drag coefficient ( C < sub > d </ sub >) is a commonly published rating of a car's aerodynamic smoothness, related to the shape of the car.
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