Bracket Racing is a way of handicapping drag racing so that you don't need a super face pro-race car to win.

In a bracket race each driver picks a "dial-in" and the winner is the driver who gets closest to his/her elected "dial-in", therefore someone with a 20 second car can (and frequently does) beat someone with a 14 second car, despite being 6 seconds slower on the 1/4 mile!

In short, Bracket Racing is a way of making drag racing "fair" so that it's not just the person with the most money that wins, it's driver skill, knowledge of your car and consistency that wins...