Lees Than one Second

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This article is about Ashley and Shiree who are having are slot race.

The car weighs less than 150 grams each. The race lasts less than a second! Ashley and Shiree are the only children competing in the annual slot car Drag Racing Nationals in Nelson.

They are competing in races against each other as well as against adult racers. All the races are run as a best of three”. You have three chances to get the fastest time. At the start of a race, the racers line up in twos beside the drag strip.

Above them is a TV screen. The racers have to watch the screen for a green light. As soon as the green light flashes on, each racer presses down on their handheld control button to start the car.

They need  to have a very fast reaction time. If they start their car before the green light comes on, a red light flashes. This means that they are disqualified for that race.

Within a split second, the cars can reach speed up to 193 Kilometers per hour. Times are recorded on the computer. They are accurate to a thousandth of a second.

The track is 12.8 metres long. The world record for the fastest slot car drag race over this distance is .448. In that race, the car reached a speed of 222 kilometers per hour

The characters in the Ashley,Shiree and the adults

I like this story because it has heaps of cars.