New to drag racing. Need advice.

ok, your slicks won't hook unless you get some heat to them. They are intended to get in a water box and haze them. Next, even with heat, you need a prepped track for it to hook. I'm not sure what kind of drag racing that was, but it wasn't prepped for your slicks. For that kind of racing, a DOT drag radial would hook much better.
Heat the slicks!
watch the 1st 12 seconds of this video


Thanks for the input. In this local 300 foot series, they don't allow "box burn outs". Pull up to the line and run....period. I put brand new rubber on the car. Don't quote me, but the are MT's that are designed...per the ad to have maximum traction with little or no warm up. Basically this series is held on the straight away of a 1/4 mile oval.