ImportDrag.com/DSport Magazine Pro-Am sport front wheel drive drag racing, first round of qualifying, at the AAA Auto Club drag strip in Fontana CA, 11/2007. These are street-legal Honda cars that are usually running turbochargers, but you can sometimes see other FWD automobiles from companies like Mazda, and even General Motors.
This is the first round of qualifying for the IDRC Dsport Pro-Am all-motor class. These drag racers are driving street-legal front wheel drive cars that run in the 11-second range, at a quarter-mile long drag strip. They are at the Auto Club California Speedway at Fontana, CA, in November of 2007.
This VW dragster runs a four cylinder engine that is set up in the classic Volkswagen flat-4 configuration. There is a single turbocharger, with one stage of nitrous.
UPDATE 11/4/2007: The team ran a series of 6.8x-second passes at the Street Car Super Nationals race in Las Vegas this weekend. There had been an NHRA national event the previous weekend, so the track was very sticky, and when combined with the low ambient air temps, it made the chassis tune-up very difficult for all the vehicles in attendance. Wheel hop was the norm, and many car owners were forced to de-tune the engine slightly in order to get a clean launch.