Dragsters definitely measure their acceleration for bragging rights, it's usually a 0-100mph metric though. And of course bragging rights mean nothing if your car doesn't win the actual race. Top-Fuel dragsters race only 1000ft because they're so insanely fast it's dangerous to let them go farther and build up even more speed.
Haha upon reading it, that is a bad phrasing. My American is showing. Funny because I usually watch European racing series which use km, but dragsters are fun to keep track of and those are imperial.
Also you can be sure 1000ft isn't a quarter mile because that's far too evenly divisible.
