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We would like to invite you and your students to participate in a unique field trip. This is a FREE program that focuses on the importance of goals and continued education; additionally it allows students to learn about and explore various career opportunities. The program will show students how S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is applied to real world situations including NHRA Drag Racing, which they will have the opportunity to see live and in person! If this email has reached you and you know any educators that would be interested in bringing their students out, please pass it along. The goal of the NHRA YES Program is to help students find a positive career path and spread awareness of the sport.
Help us celebrate the 27th Anniversary of the NHRA YES Program presented by the U.S. Army.
The NHRA Youth & Education Services Department was founded in 1989 and is the only full-time education program in motorsports that provides quality programs and activities for schools and youth organizations nationwide.
Attended by over 20,000 students nationwide. Arrival time between 9-11 a.m. Program ends around 11 a.m. (your
welcome to stay as late as racing goes that evening). An average of 45 minutes in an interactive holding area with schools,
vendors, and various NHRA competition vehicles. Enjoy a 30 minute thought provoking presentations from business,
racing, and educational professionals. FREE NHRA drag racing race ticket to all YES participants. FREE access to the pits. All race schedules vary please check nhra.com to not miss any of the
action. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYCl8H-dS5E
Antron Brown discussing Jr. Dragster
Career and Future Opportunities
Tony Schumacher’s Top Fuel Dragster
Educational Presentations
Believe in Yourself: You can do whatever you put your mind to. There are a tremendous variety of careers to choose from. Find a career that you are passionate about and by setting clear and attainable goals you can accomplish anything in life.
Teamwork: Whether your goal is to work on a race team, drive a race car, run the business behind the race team or serve your country, you must be able to work well with others to accomplish a single goal. It is important to finish your task to the best of your ability with maximum effort. It is the combination of your work with the sum of the team members that creates a final product and taking shortcuts can hurt the success of the team.
Respect yourself and others around you: Always show respect for your parents, teachers, friends and yourself. You will gain respect when you have respect in yourself and by putting out your best efforts at all times.
Make a Difference: Live a life that matters and look for ways to volunteer in your community. Through selflessness, hard work, education, belief in yourself, teamwork, and respect you can live up to your expectations and be successful in life.
Make the right choices and Drive Safe: Driving fast may be tempting when you get your first car. However, respecting others on the road and making the right choice to abide by the law and the designated speed limits will allow you and those around you to remain safe and live a fulfilling and prosperous life.
Pursue your dreams: Face your fears head on and don't let others discourage you from accomplishing your goals. You can accomplish anything in life, if you put your mind to it, work hard and stay on the right path.
All students are welcome! Drag racing can be applied to multiple classes such as:
Automotive
Science
Technology
Engineering
Math
Sports Medicine/ Marketing
Business
Lesson plans coming soon.
How long is the event? Begins from 9-11 a.m., program lasts roughly 90 minutes, and
then you can watch racing and walk the pits for as long as you'd like.
What do I need to bring? Nothing is required but we suggest sunscreen, hats, and
earplugs. How much does the program cost?
This is a FREE program however NHRA does not provide transportation or lunches.
What is the Army’s involvement? The Army has been the primary sponsor the of the NHRA YES
Program since 2000 and the program has been in existence since 1989.
Visit www.nhra.com/yes and click on the Participate tab.
Select the correct event and please follow the directions closely.
Register your group and upon completion you’ll get a reply email back from the “YES Program” with a link to register your students & chaperones.
Please register students & chaperones from link only. After registering, directions & additional information
will be emailed prior to the event so please add [email protected] to your email contact list as a safe sender.
NHRA is an acronym for National Hot Rod Association.
Founded in 1951, the company was originally founded as a means of getting hot rodders off the streets and into a safer environment.
Today, NHRA is the world’s largest motorsports sanctioning body and the foremost promoter of drag racing in the world, entertaining millions of racing fans with the fastest and most spectacular form of entertainment on wheels.
NHRA’s premier racing series features 24 championship series events each year.
Please check www.nhra.com for any further questions, schedule, or general information.
A drag race is an acceleration contest, on a track or dragstrip, that begins from a standing start between two vehicles over a measured distance. A drag racing event is a series of such two-vehicle, tournament-style eliminations. The losing racer in each contest is eliminated, and the winning racers progress until one remains.
These contests are started by means of an electronic device commonly called a Christmas Tree because of its multicolored starting lights. On each side of the Tree are seven lights: two small amber lights at the top of the fixture, followed in descending order by three larger LED lights, a green bulb, and a red bulb.
Two light beams cross the starting-line area and connect to trackside photocells, which are wired to the Christmas Tree and electronic timers in the control tower. When the front tires of a vehicle break the first light beam, called the pre-stage beam, the pre-stage light on the Christmas Tree indicates that the racer is approximately seven inches from the starting line.
When the racer rolls forward into the stage beam, the front tires are positioned exactly on the starting line and the stage bulb is lit on the Tree, which indicates that the vehicle is ready to race. When both vehicles are fully staged, the starter will activate the Tree, and each racer will focus on the three large amber lights on his or her side of the Tree.
Pro Tree is when all three large amber lights will flash simultaneously, followed four-tenths of a second later by the green light.
Two separate performances are monitored for each run: elapsed time and speed. Upon leaving the staging beams, each vehicle activates an elapsed-time clock, which is stopped when that vehicle reaches the finish line. The start-to-finish clocking is the vehicle's elapsed time (e.t.), which serves to measure performance.
Speed is measured in a 66-foot "speed trap" that ends at the finish line. Each lane is timed independently. The first vehicle across the finish line wins!
IN THE STANDS Friday allows for two qualifying runs, and most feature a Friday night session that transforms fuel-car racing into an
ethereal sight. Qualifying is your chance to see all of the cars run, not just the quickest 16. You'll get to see some of the local cars that run
only once or twice a year and are rarely quick enough to make the show. Track and weather conditions can change from session to session and affect performance, so to get a better idea of how
the players rate, compare runs made within a single session, not across sessions. Watch the Lucas Oil competition, where the racing is often close and wins and losses are not always decided by
horsepower but by driver reflexes and downtrack strategy. If you're new to breakout racing, listen to the announcers. They often go into great detail to explain how and why a driver won or lost a race.
Try watching the races from different spots in the stands. Seeing a race unfold from a finish-line vantage point is a world apart from watching it from the starting line. The difference in the sights and sounds will amaze you.
IN THE PITS Drag racing is unique among motorsports because fans have direct access to the teams, watching from as close as five or
ten feet as the highly skilled mechanics "twirl the iron." Hot tip: Some of the most frantic action takes place in the first 30 minutes after a car returns to the pits. If you want a
front-row seat to watch the teams at their best, head for the pits a little early. If there's a major engine meltdown on the track and you don't mind missing the rest of the action, you probably won't have to fight for elbow room. The lack of crowds also provides a good chance to snag some autographs at other pit areas.
If you want to get a real feel for the power of a fuel-burning engine, hang out until a team test-fires its engine, generally 45 minutes to an hour before it expects to run.
You shouldn't restrict your pit-area adventures to the Mello Yello classes. Cruise the Lucas Oil pits. The drivers in those classes are more likely to have time to answer your questions. Often, you'll see the same kind of frantic pit-area thrashes that you witness in the Mello Yello pits: Super Stock teams changing transmissions, Comp crews swapping engines, and Top Alcohol drivers warming their machines.
Top Fuel Among the fastest-accelerating machines in the world, these 10,000-horsepower dragsters can cover the dragstrip in less than 3.8 seconds at more than 325 mph. Top Fuel cars are 25 feet long and weigh 2,320 pounds in race-ready trim.
Funny Car Similar to their Top Fuel counterparts but with a shorter wheelbase and a carbon-fiber body that loosely resembles a production-based automobile, Funny Cars, routinely run in the 4.0’s and can exceed 315 mph.
Pro Stock
Often called “factory hot rods” because of their resemblance to production-based cars, Pro Stockers can run in the 6.4s at more than 210 mph. They can rev to more than 10,500 rpm and make in excess of 1,300 horsepower.
Pro Stock Motorcycle
These highly modified vehicles, which can run under 6.8 seconds at more than 195 mph, feature a purpose-built tube chassis and a lightweight, aerodynamically enhanced replica of original bodywork.
Top Alcohol Dragster Top Alcohol Dragsters may look like Top Fuelers, but they have significant differences. They may use a supercharged methanol-burning engine or an injected nitromethane combination. They can run in the 5.1s at more than 280 mph.
Top Alcohol Funny Car Similar in physical appearance to their nitro-burning Funny Car counterparts, Top Alcohol Funny Cars are restricted to the use of methanol fuel and have three-speed transmissions. They can run in the 5.4s at more than 265 mph.
Comp No category in NHRA competition features more variety than Comp. Each of the 88 classes is assigned an index based on what a well-built car should run, and races are handicapped according to those indexes.
Super Stock Super Stock vehicles may look like ordinary passenger vehicles, but they are highly modified race cars. Entries are classified using factory shipping weight and horsepower and compete on indexes. The breakout rule is enforced.
Stock Stock cars are similar to Super Stockers, but rules regarding everything from engine modifications to body alterations are much stricter. Virtually any car is eligible to compete, and entries are classified using factory shipping weight and horsepower.
Super Comp The quickest of the heads-up Super classes (8.90 index) is composed primarily of dragsters. Most cars are capable of running well under the index but use electronic aids to run close to the index without running quicker than it, or breaking out.
Super Gas Super Gas entries, which run on a 9.90 index, are primarily full-bodied cars and street roadsters. No dragsters or altereds are permitted. As in Super Comp, competitors use electronic aids to run as close to the class standard without going under.
Super Street Racers compete on a fixed 10.90 index. All vehicles must be full-bodied cars and weigh no less than 2,800 pounds except for six-cylinder cars (2,000) and four-cylinder and rotary-powered cars (1,200). Engine and chassis modifications are virtually unlimited.
Top Sportsman Competitors in these full-bodied entries may choose their own dial for eliminations, generally from 6.00 to 7.99 seconds. Full Tree starts are used, and the breakout rule is enforced. Cars can run in the sixes at more than 200 mph.
Top Dragster Competitors in these open-wheel entries may choose their own dial for eliminations, generally from 6.00 to 7.70 seconds. Full Tree starts are used, and the breakout rule is enforced. Cars can run in the sixes at more than 200 mph.
Pro Mod The NHRA Pro Mod Drag Racing Series runs at 10 NHRA Mello Yello events. An eclectic mix of vehicles, from ’41 Willys coupes to ’63 Corvettes to late-model Ford Mustangs and Dodge Vipers, can run in the high fives at more than 250 mph.
The U.S. Army has been a sponsor of the NHRA YES Program since 2000. Their continued support and dedication to the YES Program and NHRA drag racing is top notch.
The Army provides options for students if they are interested. This is not a forced recruiting effort.
More information about Army Careers and Opportunities at www.goarmy.com
Army Racing sponsorship information at www.goarmy.com/army-racing.html
Meet Tony Schumacher/ Antron Brown at the YES Program! Tony Schumacher
Sponsor/Category: U.S. Army Top Fuel Dragster World championships: 8 (last won in 2014) Most Top Fuel event titles: 80 Career-best elapsed time: 3.735 seconds Career-best speed: 330.30 mph
Antron Brown Sponsor/Category: Matco Tools Top Fuel Dragster World championships: 1 (2012) Career event titles: 50 (Top Fuel: 34; Pro Stock Motorcycle: 16) Career best elapsed time: 3.701 seconds Career best speed: 328.78 mph
NHRA Sports Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9fG1CTvu0I&feature=youtu.be
How a Top Fuel Dragster Works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VF0JwxQqcA
Tony Schumacher on Fox and Friends: http://video.foxnews.com/v/3934406578001/nhra-champion-tony-
schumachers-next-challenge/?playlist_id=930909787001#sp=show-clips
Fire Breathing Monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Ybyq6osNY
Please direct your drivers to arrive between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Enter Gate T off Bruton Smith Blvd.
All participants should have their GO PASS ready to turn in.
There will be no parking fee for participants with the parking pass, please make copies for all drivers (page 20).
Friday- September 18, 2015
Youth & Education Career Day at the Races
Gate T Please arrive 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
zMAX Dragway: 670 Bruton Smith Blvd. Concord, NC 28027
Pomona, CA: Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 Phoenix, AZ: February 20, 2015 Gainesville, FL: March 13, 2015 Las Vegas, NV: April 10, 2015 Houston, TX: April 24, 2015 Atlanta, GA: May 15, 2015 Englishtown, NJ: June 5, 2015 ~Summer Break~ Indianapolis, IN: September 4, 2015 Charlotte, NC: September 18, 2015 St. Louis, MO: September 25, 2015 Reading, PA: October 2, 2015 Dallas, TX: October 16, 2015 Pomona, CA Career Fair: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 Pomona, CA YES Program: Friday, November 13, 2015
Amber Vinson Marketing & Educational Services Manager Address: 2035 Financial Way,
Glendora, CA 91741 Office Number: 626-250-2221 (PST) Email: [email protected]
Thank you for your support of this program!
Please let me know if you have any questions.