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Also consider another difference in drag racing to road racing. Auto trans/torque converter in drag racing and a standard clutch/trans in road racing. The torque converter in a drag car will help keep a drag car in the sweet spot, higher RPM. Power below the curve is not as significant in drag racing because a drag car spends less time below the curve thanks to the torque converter. With the standard trans/clutch there is no torque multiplication and we spend more time at lower RPMs pulling from the corners.
I found this discussion on torque multiplication. https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/12184/torque-converter-torque-multiplication
I found this discussion on torque multiplication. https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/12184/torque-converter-torque-multiplication