Drag racing
After Henry Ford started making automobiles more affordable for Americans by manufacturing them on an assembly line, it wasn't long until people started racing them. Drag racing is defined as straight line speed races. Initially highly illegal, the first legal drag racing track was set up on an Orange County Airport runway in 1950 by C.J. Hart in Santa Ana, California. In 1991, C.J. Hart was inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame. In 1999 he also joined the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.