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SUPERCHARGED KNOCKOUT

o one could’ve predicted the explosion of heads-up, outlaw-style racing nearly 30 years ago when HOT ROD kicked off its Fastest Street Car in America challenge. Those early years of Pro Street and Super Street helped spawn a racing genre that is still going strong today. The street-legal–style, drag-racing market is far bigger than just the big-tire and small-tire classes that were run in 1992, and one of the wildest categories is the Radial vs. The World phenomenon that takes place

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