Racer Roy Hill's business is dragging.

• Position: Drag race training

Racer Roy Hill's business is dragging

Looking for that special touch to make your resume stand out? Forget the M.B.A. -- what you need is a doctorate in drag racing.

That's right -- Roy Hill's School of Drag Racing in Sophia, near Asheboro, will qualify you to bring 1,050 horsepower loping up to the line. What if it does cost $1,500 for a two-day course? Where else can you get hold of a T-bird capable of turning 100-plus mph in a matter of seconds?

Hill chokes the carburetor of the 1987 Thunderbird he once raced down to a mere 750 horsepower for beginners. But at least four students have clocked 140 mph, running the car flat out down the strip at Piedmont Dragway in Greensboro.

"It will scare you to death," promises Hill, a veteran of 20 years of professional racing on both drag strips and in Grand National stock-car competition. In a few months, Hill plans to move the school's sessions to a longer track in Rockingham where students should be able to do 180 mph in a...