Unlike any other event in the world, drivers of the fastest street-legal drag cars in the US have the opportunity to drag race in front of spectators on historic Woodward Avenue as it is transformed from a street into a sanctioned, 1/8-mile drag strip.Unlike any other event in the world, drivers of the fastest street-legal drag cars in the US have the opportunity to drag race in front of spectators on historic Woodward Avenue as it is transformed from a street into a sanctioned, 1/8-mile drag strip.