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Recreation and Sports → Motorsports → Auto racing
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  • Galeanda
    It comes from the term drag meaning street. Main streets started to be referred to as main drags around 1850s. At the beginning of drag racing, it was just street racing down a drag or street. Then it got moved to a 'drag' strip that got it off the streets.
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