TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Start Your Engines 4 CHAPTER 2 Built for Speed 8 CHAPTER 3 Top Speeds 18 ACTIVITIES TOOLS Try This 22 Glossary 23 Index 24 To Learn More 24
CHAPTER 1 START YOUR ENGINES Race cars are on the starting line These long low cars are dragsters dragster
The cars take off They can go more than 330 miles 531 kilometers per hour That’s five times faster than cars on the freeway